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Ok, I didn't come up with this, but I laughed: Hackers: Hereos of the Computer Revolution Steven Levy Crackers and phrackers! Phreaks and geeks! War dialers, phone tone toot-whistles and classic BBS textfile collections! All of it more retarded today than it's ever been. A wholly irrelevant compendium of what clumsy, fat kids do with their lives in between rounds of hard prison time. Surprise: Puerto Ricans will stab you in the airport restroom and steal your long-distance calling card. A veritable encyclopedia of everything already known. People, places and things which ceased to be interesting twenty years ago. Impotent like Clifford Stoll, timely as System 7. The book nobody will ever talk about.

You've posted a review you found funny? I was planning on reading this book at some point.

>>17763 Not really a review, but still funny: https://web.archive.org/web/20011209111618/http://www.gapingmaw.com/73257/

>>17763 It's pretty good, but imo crypto is better. The sequence of hackers is MIT AI lab through stallman, classic 90s phreakers and hackers, then it's all downhill as it goes into some weird interlude about fat women making RPGs. Stop reading at that point. Crypto is all god-tier. I lent it to a technical fuarrrktoy of mine and she was pretty blown by it.

>>17764 That is really funny. >>17765 Link to more information on this Crypto book.

>>17765 >some weird interlude about fat women making RPGs Oh joy!

>>17766 It's just crypto, by the same author, Stephen Levy.

>>17766 If you squint you can see the "by the author of crypto" tagline in the upper right of the OP pic.