On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Mike Ford wrote:
> AFAIK hacker comes from the journalism term "hack" writer. Basically a
> person who just sits down and starts banging keys without a plan etc. A non
> professional, even if they do have a fair amount of talent.
>
> Something of an insult, which I think just carried over to calling any type
> of computer misfit a hacker.
No, the term was being used by computer dorks and the media picked up on
it when they started to report on computer misfits doing mischievous
things.
> Crackers were people who cracked the software protection on a product,
> often then uploading the "cracked" version with a splash page showing their
> "name" to pirate BBSs.
I called these guys "pirates".
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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