23 May 07
Originally posted by ChaosChildDon't worry, I don't take it personally 🙂
i don't agree with you. hackers were hackers long before internet existed and the information security mass hysteria started, and the term was coined by us to describe us. it's only many years later, after both kevins, morris jr. and the rest of the 'gang', that the term hacker was started to be used by mass media to describe everybody and everything who ...[text shortened]... spelling. i guess i live like i type, fast and with a lot of mistakes. 😉
The internet has been around a long time you know (you could argue nearly forty years)so discussing what the term "hacker" meant prior to it's appearance might be a touch difficult.
That aside though, many words have two meaning so I wouldn't get too upset about if I were you.
23 May 07
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Originally posted by Wheelyif you refer to arpanet, started in 1969, or the first packet switched service of '78 or the launch of first tcp/ip wan in the early '80s, then sure, we could say that internet dates a few decades. but internet as we know it now, and as what i was referring to (again arguing the meaning of words ...) only became public in the early '90s. arpanet never hosted business-to-business applications, provided electronic banking and allowed general connectivity between local lans and the rest of the world, literally rest of the world, all of which could be cracked, flooded, attacked and otherwise maliciously tempered with - the activities that made computer crimes a public knowledge and such a headache for most governments, corporates and individuals.
The internet has been around a long time you know (you could argue nearly forty years)so discussing what the term "hacker" meant prior to it's appearance might be a touch difficult.
but anyway, this is all philosophy now ... perhaps, even if you refer to yourself as a hacker, you don't really hold the meaning of the word dear to yourself and don't mind the abuse it goes through every day. but hey, for each his own ...