An edition of In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (1999)

In the beginning ...was the command line

by Neal Stephenson

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An edition of In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (1999)

In the beginning ...was the command line

by Neal Stephenson

★★★ ★ 3.7 (25 ratings)
31 Want to read
37 Have read

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.

Publish Date

1999

Publisher

Avon Books

Language

English

Pages

151

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01 In the Beginning...Was the Command Line 2008, HarperCollins Publishers in English 0061655767 9780061655760	zzzz Locate
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