The Google Ngrams graph for "hacker" may be of some interest: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hacker&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoot

The Google Ngrams graph for "hacker" may be of some interest: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hacker&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chacker%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hacker&year_st...