Hackers Wizards of the Electronic Age (1985)

Original title

Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

Directed by

Fabrice Florin

Genre

documentary, tv movie

Country

United States

Runtime

26 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a TV documentary from 1985 about the hacker community. It shows footage from a 1984 hacker conference and includes interviews with many programmers who helped create the personal computer revolution.

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What happens

Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age is a 1985 TV documentary about the hacker community. The film includes footage of a hacker conference, and interviews with some of the programmers that created the personal computer revolution, including Bill Atkinson, Bill Budge, Doug Carlston, John Draper, Andrew Fluegelman, Lee Felsenstein, Richard Greenblatt, Andy Hertzfeld, David Hughes, Susan Kare, Richard Stallman, Bob Wallace, Robert Woodhead, Steve Wozniak, and others. All interviews in this documentary were shot over a long weekend at a 1984 hacker conference by the Whole Earth Catalog editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly in Sausalito, California. The event itself (the hacker conference) was inspired by Steven Levy's book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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