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The original hackers are the ones from the Lisp Machines and ITS/WAIS under the PDP10. The rest of these are just PC wannabes. Actual hacker knownledge: http:
by anthk 1y ago
The original hackers are the ones from the Lisp Machines and ITS/WAIS under the PDP10.
The rest of these are just PC wannabes.
Actual hacker knownledge: http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html
Under PC's, today, great hackers should be the guy behing https://t3x.org https://t3x.org, the one behind EForth running under Subleq,
reverse engineers, people reusing DNS' connections for tunnels
such as the folks from Iodine, people reusing AWK+netcat (or plain GAWK) and awk+openssl to create Gopher and Gemini clients, Goerzen from https://complete.org https://complete.org creating NNCP and a bunch of nice tools...
And OFC Fabrice Bellard, which is on par with people from the MIT/SAIL and ITS/WAIS who created and expanded TECO Emacs, LISP, primordial AI, first networked environements, AI grounds...
- panzagl 1y agoI read Steven Levy too- the original hackers were model railroaders. And there are no true Scotsmen