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7. ITS and Hacker Culture
The hacker culture at MIT began with the Tech Model Railroad Club, which explored controlling trains via the PDP-1. This experimentation fostered the hacker ethos, leading to the development of the first video game, Spacewar!, and the ITS. The open, collaborative nature of ITS at the MIT AI Lab, accessible through ARPAnet, significantly influenced the hacker culture and laid the groundwork for the free/open-source software movement...
This topic is very well documented in the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy.