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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line Paperback - 1999
by Neal Stephenson
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Cryptonomicor" comes a hilarious commentary on computer operating systems and what they reveal about our culture. "(Stephenson) is the hacker Hemingway."--"Newsweek."
Summary
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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- Title In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
- Author Neal Stephenson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
- Date 1999-11-09
- ISBN 9780380815937 / 0380815931
- Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.34 x 0.44 in (20.37 x 13.56 x 1.12 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Operating systems (Computers)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99040450
- Dewey Decimal Code 005.43
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- Booklist, 11/15/1999, Page 587
- Library Journal, 11/15/1999, Page 90
- Publishers Weekly, 10/11/1999, Page 61
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