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On a side note: Does anyone know a good, detailed writeup with dates of events etc. of how the word "hacker" was transferred from "hacker culture" (as described
by not_knuth 6y ago
On a side note: Does anyone know a good, detailed writeup with dates of events etc. of how the word "hacker" was transferred from "hacker culture" (as described in The Jargon File [0]) to the rest of the world and turned into a word with malicious connotation along the way?
[0] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html
- jessaustin 6y agoThis was a long time ago. RTM was called a "hacker" in the headline of a 1988 article [0] about his potential links to the worm that now bears his name. Since the word isn't used in the text of the article, we can't know it was considered a bad thing. Still, the headline seems to speak for itself. [0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2531758/portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-young-hacker.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2531758/portrait-of-an...
- not_knuth 6y agoWow! I did not expect it to be that early. I was thinking more early 2000s after the onslaught of web-self-taught teenage "hackers".