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7 points by pkdpic ↗ HN
I just finished Weaving the Web by Tim BL.

Liked the tech history story-time vibe a lot more than I was expecting.

Looking for something similar or slightly more hacky ("hacky") whatever that might mean.

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CelticBard
When We Ceased to Understand the World by Benjamin Labtaut
elhesuu
The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner.
hulitu
Mosaic (first web browser) source code.
ac2u
Masters of Doom
is_true
This 100%. This book is like fuel for programming
lurker137
Unix: A History and a Memoir By Brian Kernighan
Blackstrat
I have Issacson’s The Innovators in queue but haven’t started it yet. The following I’ve read:

Hackers by Levy, Soul of the Machine by Kidder, The Cuckoo’s Egg by Stoll, Turing’s Cathedral by Dyson

All are older but give a good perspective of the early days of the computer revolution.

mbgu
Notes from Underground