Hacking History & Introduction

A brief glimpse into the historical evolution of the hacking culture and its associated terms. »
Zaid A.

Give hackers an inch and they'll take you a mile.
HACK
Create Furniture with an ax
re-configuring or re-programming of a system to function in ways not facilitated by the owner
To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization.
Hacker: [a] person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular.
1957
Joe Engressia, a blind seven years old discovers the 2600Hz tone.
1960s
MIT AI students coin the term hacker.
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John Draper
Joe Engressia
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Captain Crunch
Esquire Magazine
1971
IBM says there is no market for more than 20 computers
1975
MITS releases Altair 8800
1975
Homebrew Computer Club
1977
1983
Late 1960s
1986
The Hacker's Manifesto
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.
We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals.
We explore... and you call us criminals.
We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals.
We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.

You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal.  My crime is that of curiosity.  My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.

My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.  You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.


Thanks and may all your
days be full of hacking!
Zaid B. Amireh
CEO
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