Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age (1984)

Name: Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1984-01-01

26m

Running Time

Plot.

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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Cast & Crew.

Bill Atkinson

Self - Designer of 'MacPaint'

Bruce Baumgart

Self - Stanford A.I. Lab Hacker

Stewart Brand

Self - Editor, Whole Earth Software Catalog

Stewart Brand

Self - Editor, Whole Earth Software Catalog

Bill Budge

Self - Designer, 'Pinball Construction Set'

Steve Wozniak

Doug Carlston

Self - President, Broderbund Software

Tony Russomanno

John Draper

Self - Captain Crunch

Fabrice Florin

Director

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 1984

Status
Released

Running Time
26m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2023-11-08

This Movie Is About.

hacker

Wiki.

Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age is a 1985 TV documentary about the hacker community.

The film includes footage of a hacker conference, and interviews with some of the programmers that created the personal computer revolution, including Bill Atkinson, Bill Budge, Doug Carlston, John Draper, Andrew Fluegelman, Lee Felsenstein, Richard Greenblatt, Andy Hertzfeld, David Hughes, Susan Kare, Richard Stallman, Bob Wallace, Robert Woodhead, Steve Wozniak, and others.

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 Kelly in Sausalito, California. The event itself (the hacker conference) was inspired by Steven Levy's book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.