Paper by Eric Raymond offers a thumbnail sketch of the history of hacker culture.

Bruce Sterling's book relates the 1990 law enforcement crackdown on computer hackers, and its effects.

Learn the history of phone phreaking from one of its originators, John T. Draper. Begins with the Cap'n Crunch experiments of 1972.

Shift magazine writer Rodney Palmer spends New Years Eve 2000 with 200 of America's most notorious hackers.