4 Aug
1999
4 Aug
'99
11:14 a.m.
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(a)siconic.com
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