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Hacking once meant chopping up model trains

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Before it meant stealing digital identities, it was just aggressive carpentry. The term originated at massive technical institutes to describe students chopping away at intricate train sets and wooden models long before computers were even widely accessible.

Hacking once meant chopping up model trains
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