PROJECTS: HACKER CULTURE AND FOLKLORE

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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

• The Tao of programming
• The impromptu musings of Donald Knuth

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