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From: mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: hacker and funny symbols
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Date: Wed, 4-Jan-84 23:55:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  4 23:55:20 1984
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The first use of the word "hacker" that I ever heard was in reference
to tennis, many years ago.  Hacking on the court.  I imagine that
the word is used with many different enterprises; this indicated by
a number of submissions regarding the etymology of the word.

Also many years ago (hmmm, have I said this before?), back in the
dark ages when I had never even seen a computer, I used to see the
symbol

	-)

used in various writings.  This meant "tongue-in-cheek", for obvious
reasons.  I always liked it; it goes well with sarcasm.

Mark E. Mallett
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