Movie: Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

Top 7 Billed Cast

Bill Atkinson
Bill Atkinson

Bruce Baumgart
Bruce Baumgart

Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand

Bill Budge
Bill Budge

Doug Carlston
Doug Carlston

Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak

Tony Russomanno
Tony Russomanno

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    All interviews in this documentary were shot over a long weekend at a 1984 hacker conference by the Whole Earth Catalog editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelley in Sausalito, California. The event itself (the hacker conference) was inspired by Steven Levy's classic book "Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution"

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    1984-01-01

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    7

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