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Books about the history of computing or about the current state in a serious or humoristic way.

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A book with the stories of notorious hackers like Kevin Mitnick, Robert T. Morris and the Chaos Computer Club. Sometimes maybe a somewhat tilted image of the persons, but a good read in general.
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The history of two hacking gangs "The Legion of Doom" and "The Masters of Deception" clashing with eachother. About computers and phones and emotions and honour.
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This third edition of the tremendously popular Hacker's Dictionary adds 100 new entries and updates 200 entries. In case you aren't familiar with it, this is no snoozer dictionary of technical terms, although you'll certainly find accurate definitions for most techie jargon. It's the slang and secret language among computer jocks that offers the most fun. Don't know what the Infinite-Monkey Theorem is? Or the meaning of "rat dance?" It's all here. Most people don't sit down to read dictionaries for entertainment, but this is surely an exception.
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As the founder of MIT's Media Lab and a popular columnist for Wired, Nicholas Negroponte has amassed a following of dedicated readers. Negroponte's fans will want to get a copy of Being Digital, which is an edited version of the 18 articles he wrote for Wired about "being digital." Negroponte's text is mostly a history of media technology rather than a set of predictions for future technologies. In the beginning, he describes the evolution of CD-ROMs, multimedia, hypermedia, HDTV (high-definition television), and more. The section on interfaces is informative, offering an up-to-date history on visual interfaces, graphics, virtual reality (VR), holograms, teleconferen... Rest of this review on the detail page
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A humourous dictionary of computer terms with comments. A lot of the inside-joke variety so it's only funny to computer buffs
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