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In the Beginning ...Was the Command Line

By Neal Stephenson

Book information

Publisher
Avon Books
Year
1999
ISBN
9780380815937
LCC
QA76.76.O63 S7369 1999
Open Library ID
OL24961816M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
225 kB (230366 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-03-07 16:50:00

Description

This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.

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