"The Art of Unix Programming" (Eric S. Raymond) has a longish section on the history of Unix, which is very illuminating, as it stretches several decades of its development.
"The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" (Bruce Sterling) I wouldn't call this a really good book, but it's interesting to have read it if you didn't yet have anything to do with computers in the early 1990s. It tells the story of how crackers (not hackers!) came to public prominence, and gives some insight into the early days of the Internet.
"The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" (Bruce Sterling) I wouldn't call this a really good book, but it's interesting to have read it if you didn't yet have anything to do with computers in the early 1990s. It tells the story of how crackers (not hackers!) came to public prominence, and gives some insight into the early days of the Internet.
Both are available for free.