When I first got connected to the Internet and after I found a way to sort through the garbage and the annoying commercial pop up ads and flashing blinking banners, I found an amazing community of networking software developers. It was a “shared culture of expert programmers and networking wizards” who I soon found were [...]
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What Is a Hacker?
Eric S. Raymond
The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term ‘hacker’, most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits. If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant.
There is a community, a shared [...]
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The Incredibly Interesting Internet
The internet saved me from a lonely life in a small remote rural town with no library for learning. Well, I take that back, we do have a library, if you can call it that… but what a disappointment! I was use to a big city library.
Then I got connected. [...]
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