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  In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (Paperback) By (author) Neal Stephenson

  

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  Short Description for In the Beginning...Was the Command LineFrom 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."
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  • Publisher: AVON BOOKS
  • Published: 09 November 1999
  • Format: Paperback 151 pages
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  • Categories: Computing: General | Ethical & Social Aspects Of Computing | Operating Systems
  • ISBN 13: 9780380815937 ISBN 10: 0380815931
  • Sales rank: 56,811

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• 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.