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Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

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Producing House

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"

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1984-01-01

Runtime: 26 mins

Director: Fabrice Florin

Writer: Fabrice Florin

Spoken language: English

Genres: Documentary, TV Movie

Original title: Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age

Production Companies: Florin Productions

Production Countries: United States of America

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