<story><title>In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf]</title><url>https://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Stephenson-CommandLine-1999.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ackbar03</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m guessing some on the hacker news crowd already know this but the author neal Stephenson also wrote Crytonomicon which was the prerequisite reading book for the PayPal mafia back in the days. I&amp;#x27;ve personally only read his book reamde but the accuracy in detail in the novels really reflect quite deep understanding of the tech world including the shadier parts</text></comment>
<story><title>In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf]</title><url>https://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Stephenson-CommandLine-1999.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ubermonkey</author><text>I read this when it was current. I am now old.&lt;p&gt;Stephenson had a great sideline in really deep-dive nonfiction pieces there for a while (around the same time that Wired was experimenting with running them, &lt;i&gt;in print&lt;/i&gt;). It was a pretty great combination.</text></comment>