stackyFACTSBack in the 1960s MIT Tech Model Railroad Club, a hack was a clever, elegant technical solution, and a hacker was an incredibly talented engineer.
Back in the 1960s MIT Tech Model Railroad Club, a hack was a clever, elegant technical solution, and a hacker was an incredibly talented engineer. Then the 1980s arrived, the media panicked about teenagers breaking into government mainframes using dial-up modems, and the term was forever hijacked. Now, instead of a compliment for your engineering skills, it conjures images of a guy in a black hoodie aggressively typing green text in a dark room.
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