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Many ideas -- such as the beauty of [minimalism](minimalism.md) -- that became part of hacker culture later came from the development of [Unix](unix.md) and establishment of its [programming philosophy](unix_philosophy.md). Many hackers came from the communities revolving around [PDP 10](pdp_10.md) and [ARPANET](arpanet.md), and later around networks such as [Usenet](usenet.md). At the time when computers started to be abused by corporations, [Richard Stallman's](rms.md) definition of [free software](free_software.md) and his [GNU](gnu.md) project embodied the strong hacker belief in information freedom and their opposition of [intellectual property](intellectual_property.md).
The culture has a deep lore and its own literature consisting of books that hackers usually like (e.g. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and books by hackers themselves. Bits of the lore are in forms of short stories circulated as folklore, very popular form are so called Koans. Perhaps the most iconic hacker story is the [Story of Mel](story_of_mel.md) which tells a true story of a master hacker keeping to his personal ethical beliefs under the pressure of his corporate employers -- a conflict between manager employers ("suits") and hacker employees is a common theme in the stories. Other famous stories include the *TV typewriter* and *Magic Switch*. One of the most famous hacker books is the **[Jargon File](jargon_file.md)**, a collectively written dictionary documenting hacker culture in detail. A 1987 book *[The Tao of Programming](tao_of_programming.md)* captures the hacker wisdom with Taoist-like texts that show how spiritual hacking can get -- this reflects the above mentioned sacred nature of the early computers. The *textfiles* website features many text files on hacking at https://textfiles.vistech.net/hacking/. A lot about hackers can be learned from books about them, e.g. the [free](free_culture.md) book *Free as in Freedom* about [Richard Stallman](rms.md) (available e.g. [here](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5768)). A prominent hacker writer is [Eric S. Raymond](esr.md) who produced a very famous essay *The Cathedral and the Bazaar*, edited the Jargon File and has written a large guide called *How To Become A Hacker* -- these are all good resources on hackerdom, even though Raymond himself is kind of shitty, he for example prefers the "[open source](open_source.md)" movement to [free software](free_software.md).
The culture has a deep lore and its own literature consisting of books that hackers usually like (e.g. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and books by hackers themselves. Bits of the lore are in forms of short stories circulated as folklore, very popular form are so called Koans. Perhaps the most iconic hacker story is the [Story of Mel](story_of_mel.md) which tells a true story of a master hacker keeping to his personal ethical beliefs under the pressure of his corporate employers -- a conflict between manager employers ("suits") and hacker employees is a common theme in the stories. Other famous stories include the *TV typewriter* and *Magic Switch*. One of the most famous hacker books is the **[Jargon File](jargon_file.md)**, a collectively written dictionary documenting hacker culture in detail. A 1987 book *[The Tao of Programming](tao_of_programming.md)* captures the hacker wisdom with Taoist-like texts that show how spiritual hacking can get -- this reflects the above mentioned sacred nature of the early computers. The *textfiles* website features many text files on hacking at https://textfiles.vistech.net/hacking/. See also *Ten Commandments for C Programmers* etc. A lot about hackers can be learned from books about them, e.g. the [free](free_culture.md) book *Free as in Freedom* about [Richard Stallman](rms.md) (available e.g. [here](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5768)). A prominent hacker writer is [Eric S. Raymond](esr.md) who produced a very famous essay *The Cathedral and the Bazaar*, edited the Jargon File and has written a large guide called *How To Become A Hacker* -- these are all good resources on hackerdom, even though Raymond himself is kind of shitty, he for example prefers the "[open source](open_source.md)" movement to [free software](free_software.md).
As a symbol of hackerdom the glider symbol from [game of life](game_of_life.md) is sometimes used, it looks like this: