Thank you for your answers ! I will look into them
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My flatmate is an architect. From my point of view, architecture seems to be a field where culture is crucial. You have to inspire yourself from other works. Thus he has lots and lots of books on architecture, books that he often reads, granting him a broad knowledge over his field.
The thing is, I'm currently working in networking and most of the books seems to be technical books or how to pass a cert etc. I'm currently greatly interested about history around computers and networks. I've seen (not yet read) books like 'The Idea Factory' (about Bell Labs) or 'Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet'. Do some of you have some other great recs please ? I know it's not a Computer forum but most of us here on the gemini space have an interest in this area.
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All of the original Unix books including a guide to network programming in Unix. That one goes really deep on tcp/ip. But you can’t go wrong with that series of books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_Network_Programming. Also, the history of Unix is a blast and mostly a memoir.
You might like "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called Alien," by Jeremy N. Smith.
"Code" by Charles Petzold is the single best book about how computers work, from the ground up, that I have ever read or probably ever will read.
I also really enjoyed "Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors" by Ed Niedermeyer and "Small Fry" by Lisa Brennan Jobs, but those are more "tech bros behaving badly" than they are about tech itself.
Hacker's: heroes of the computer revolution
The hacker crackdown
The cuckoo's nest
The codebreakers
My tiny life
This might be the first time I wish I could subscribe to a post and its replies. Thank you for the books you listed, I will come back and check any replies (if I remember).