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• Amazon-Verkaufsrang: #111739 in Bücher
• Veröffentlicht am: 1993-11-01
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993-11-01
• Abmessungen: 6.87" h x .85" b x 4.17" l, .38 Pfund
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• 336 Seiten

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Prehistory
Von Mr. A. Pomeroy
A fascinating book that, along with 'Cyberpunk', 'Wired' and reprints of William Gibson, was required reading in the early-90's - a time when 'Virtual Reality' was *way cool*. I seem to remember that, shortly after appearing in print, it was published on-line, as a downloadable text file. Reading it nowadays, it's a fascinating, nostalgic portrait of a time long gone, and anybody who used to listen to Bomb the Bass whilst playing 'Xenon 2' on their Amiga A500Plus (after flicking through 'Judge Dredd: The Megazine') will shed a tear at an era of C64s, terminal emulators, communist-bloc computer criminals, and a time when computer crime was so low-profile that the term 'cracker' had not yet been invented.

1990 seems so far away. I'm sorry, I'm starting to cry.

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The history of politics going dataland
Von Ein Kunde
An exciting read - if you are in any way interested in the early development of the electronic side of our world, right the place were you read this now.

Hacking - OK, sounds like a good selling story.

But this is also about traditions of e-commerce: the phone companies. And about democracy: government vs. civil libertarians meeting on the electronic frontier, both exploring.

It is the history of the settling of cyberspace (how I hated this word until I read this book!).

Yes, history. Although it is less than a decade ago, the times of adventurous exploration are "long" ago, and books _have_ to be read about this.

Example: You read this book about people making their first unsecure steps into cyberspace, and then some day you recognize one of its main actors, Jerry Barlow, in the news speaking for the EFF, now an important organization in the world of civil liberties, but just in its early founding days, when mentioned in "The Hacker Crackdown"

Shurely our children will have excerpts from this in their history books at school :)

-Ulf

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Interesting book
Von Bookworm
The book itself is great fun to read. The only thing that bothered me was the rather small print, hence only 4 stars.