In The Beginning...Was The Command Line
by Stephenson, Neal
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Austin, Texas, United States
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About This Item
First edition trade paperback original, a Near Fine copy with a previous owner's blind stamp on FFE and a very faint spine crease. Long non-fiction essay on the development of computer interfaces and the competition between Windows, Mac and Linux.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Lame Excuse Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LP3341
- Title
- In The Beginning...Was The Command Line
- Author
- Stephenson, Neal
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback original
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Date Published
- 1999
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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