The Jargon File has a facetious etymology for "hacker" as being originally a term for "someone who makes furniture with an axe". Loyd Blankenship had, for a ti

The Jargon File has a facetious etymology for "hacker" as being originally a term for "someone who makes furniture with an axe". Loyd Blankenship had, for a time, a business selling custom made furniture. So he's a hacker across all definitions of the word. He's been known to post on hackernews, replete with bits of 90s leetspeek which gives me a frisson of joy and nostalgia: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loydb https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loydb