Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!laura From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.nlang Subject: Re: Changing meaning of term "hacker" Message-ID: <1064@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 04:44:20 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsstat.1064 Posted: Thu Sep 15 04:44:20 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Sep-83 08:09:57 EDT References: houxa.242, <2084@tekecs.UUCP>, <544@houxm.UUCP> Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada Lines: 9 My definition of hacker may be new -- by the sort of hacker that i mean is not. And calling them hackers is not new either. My grandfather was a 'hardware hacker' when hardware hackers built radios in their workrooms and used them to talk to others who also built radios in their workrooms. i think i have more in common with them than i do with the cab drivers. laura creighton utcsstat!laura