PROJECTS: HACKER CULTURE AND FOLKLORE
Classic dead trees (books)
- Anything written by W. Richard Stevens
Linked folklore
General
- The Jargon File (aka the The New Hacker's Dictionary)
- FOLDOC, the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
- The How To Become A Hacker HOWTO
- The alt.folklore.computers FAQ
- The character pronunciation guide
- The Loginataka
- The Unix Tao te Ching
- In the Beginning was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson
Humour
- who(1)'s on what(1)?
- The Unix Haters Handbook (local PDF mirror)
- Unix geek humour collection
- rm -rf
- The Bastard Operator from Hell collection of stories
- RFC 748: Telnet Randomly-Lose Option
- RFC 1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
Unix
- Nick Moffitt's $7 history of Unix
- From Bell Labs, the History of Unix
- Unixica: A tribute to Unix people and culture
- The 4.4BSD Papers
- Ritchie and Thompson's famous Communications of the ACM paper from 1974, titled The UNIX Time-Sharing System
- From 1964, why Ken had to invent the pipe ("|")
- Christophe Browne on the Unix Operating System
Programming
Networking and TCP/IP
- The story of ping, as told by the original author
Security and Cryptography
- The Alice and Bob after-dinner speech
- The 50 Ways Series

