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Subject: How to resurrect hacker? - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Dec 10 11:13:00 1983

I see that InfoWorld has published an article about the change in
meaning and popularization of the word "hacker" in the context of
computers.  (And they're on the *right* side of the issue!)

I think I know how to re-instate the old meaning--someone should
take the opportunity (before some "worm", anyway) to write a book
called, perhaps, "Confessions of a Teen-Age Hacker", which would
bear down heavily on the true meaning of the term.  Or maybe it
could be called "Hack Like Me", from the perspective of a journalist
penetrating the arcana (a la "Soul of a Nude Machine".)
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Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)