[supernetworks]

It is a book, "Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier". I seem to recall cross it hosted under mit.edu/~hacker/underground.txt or something like that

[contingencies]

https://underground-book.net/download.php3

[hulitu]

Thanks. How the world evolved: "Also, if you're curious, view the WebMake source file (warning: this contains the entire book text and markup: 948k in total). "

[anthk]

I hate it. It destroys the original concept of hackers, with the original Jargon file, the best relase (1.5). Lisp and Forth hackers are the original thinkerers.

The Jargon File

https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt

https://hakmem.org/

These are actual hackers and hacks.

[contingencies]

That ship had sailed well before the ~1997 launch of the book. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film) (1995) or http://www.takedown.com/ (1996)

[anthk]

Hacker Crackdown. The PC scene ruined everything.

[firefax]

>These are actual hackers

[clicks]

>The certificate for hakmem.org expired on 5/8/2021.

[firefax]

Ah ok. Weird way to cite a book title.

[aspenmayer]

Previously/related:

In the Realm of the Hackers (2003) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281735