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Cyberpunk Handbook:: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook

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oh man, this book was great. very funny, and hey, if yr a lamer, it'll be a nice guide to faking being cool. a preppy handbook for the late 90s... buy it!

Light and humorous description of the computer underground. Totally the book to get if you are not so serious about hacking and cracking, but are mystified by this offbeat cyberculture. Hell, this book is also cool for a Master CyberPunk, so to bolster the stereotype. Learn how the typical cyberpunk dresses, what gadgets they buy, what terms they use, and even what food good lil cyberpunks like to eat. Piercings and extreme hairdos optional.

This book is a neat tribute, in a funny way, to the "Cyber" culture in mainly the cities and the expanding "Internet" in the early 90s. Still worth reading for all its inspirational stuff, taken with a realistic grain of salt.

This book is a perfect satire of Cyberpunk literature and film and the Goth/Industrial/Raver scenesters that cling to it.
However, most of the references to web culture in the book are outdated by at least a decade and a half. While this removes some of the book's humor value, it is still an amusing look at a time and an attitude that I was then too young to experience.

And R. U. Sirious was going to be its prophet. Instead he was the profit.

Anyhow, it's a funny book, and is cheap. No chance of a second edition. So come along and enjoy those delightful memories, cybersex, cyberpunk, l33t speak, and hackers meeting up (meating up?) with literary theorists.

This is problay the only book of it's kind that isn't flaged by the feds. The style of writting is cool. It gives a how-to approch with out having a step-by-step. You can also tell the authors had a blast!! wrighting the book.

Cyberpunk really is dead.. the appearance of the official handbook clinched it. If you want to learn how to hack, don't buy this book. If you want to become a phone phreak, don't buy this book. If you want to become a cypherpunk or a coder, don't buy this book. If you're familiar with the genre of cyberpunk as literature or have had contact with subcultures that could be considered cyberpunk, get this book if you want to get a chuckle or two, or try to recognise some of the folks who posed for this book. If you're looking for net.culture to be lampooned nine ways from Sunday, get this book.

I am a hacker..A hacker gave me this book...I read it.. loved it....good informational book....also trySecrets of a super hacker by the knightmare

when i first started to learn hacking a close haxor friend of mine (grimreaper) gave me this book iv had it ever since and read it everyday it is a great book and u should buy it right now!