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From: rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Hackers, origin of term
Keywords: hacker
Message-ID: <2236@wa4mei.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 89 01:29:00 GMT
References: <2115NU113738@NDSUVM1> <98299@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI)
Organization: Amateur Radio Gateway WA4MEI, Chamblee Ga.
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In article <98299@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> mms@sun.UUCP (Michael Silverstein) writes:
++> ...
++>hearing it applied so often by students to one another, assumed it
++>was a sign of respect, homage, etc., which is by now probably an
++>irreversible misconception.
++>

It appears now that the media has turned it back around and 
it is now used in a negative way indicating 'breaker, pirate, etc.'


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