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An edition of In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (1999)

In the beginning ...was the command line

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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.

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Avon Books
Language
English
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151

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Computer Technology, Nonfiction, Operating systems (Computers), Humor, form, essays, American wit and humor, science

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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
2008, HarperCollins Publishers
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
2008, HarperCollins Publishers
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
2008, HarperCollins
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
2008, HarperCollins Publishers
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
2008, HarperCollins Publishers
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Cover of: En el principio... fue la línea de comandos
En el principio... fue la línea de comandos
2003, Traficantes de Sueños
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Die Diktatur des schönen Scheins.
September 1, 2002, Goldmann
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In the beginning ...was the command line
1999, Avon Books
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In the Beginning...was the Command Line
November 9, 1999, Harper Perennial
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
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Dewey Decimal Class
005.4/3
Library of Congress
QA76.76.O63 S7369 1999, QA76.76.O63S7369

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Pagination
151 p. ;
Number of pages
151

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OL24961816M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0380815931
ISBN 13
9780380815937
LCCN
99040450
OCLC/WorldCat
41991332

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