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> Somewhat surprisingly, hacking isn’t at all about technology. It’s about community. It's like a Sociology grad student (in this case, somewhat surprisingly,
by bittired 13y ago
> Somewhat surprisingly, hacking isn’t at all about technology. It’s about community.
It's like a Sociology grad student (in this case, somewhat surprisingly, a Law student) read the following from "How To Become A Hacker" and f'd it up in the process: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
"There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term ‘hacker’. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker."
Aha. It's in the credits:
> See Eric S. Raymond↩