Word: hackers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same topic, a comical film from the sixties shows a harried programmer rushing to run his program before he has to meet his girlfriend. Using the early cumbersome and time-consuming programming system, the "hacker" fails hears a voice telling him to try the new system, in which a programmer interacts directly with the computer to write his code. Using this system, he writes the program easily, it runs perfectly, and in the end he meets the girl...
...Hackers, says Turkle, are social misfits who construct digital Utopias, hang out in pancake houses and admire the recursive art of M.C. Escher. At M.I.T their nerdy abdication from society is "sport death"-programming for up to 30 hours without sleep before "crashing." Alex, a dedicated hacker, describes it as feeling "totally telepathic with the computer...
While at Harvard, Jackson will play a "hacker's game of tennis, and think about running in the Boston Marathon." He also plans to commute to his home in New York each weekend to visit his wife, Michelle Holmes '77, also a 1982 graduate of the Medical School...
...Flaming" is another favorite hacker activity. To flame means to speak rapidly or obsessively on a variety of subjects both significant and trivial. Hackers flame by typing opinions, gossip and mad rantings into a computer file reserved as a community bulletin board. Those wanting to know what is on the mind of computerniks all over campus can call up the board on their terminals and read the latest flame. One recent public notice contained a rosy farewell message from the head of C.M.U.'s Computer Science Department, who explained that he was leaving the university...
...hacker culture generates its own rewards; success, such as rapid career advancement, is not that important. At 26, Jim McQuade is growing into hacker middle age. He has attended C.M.U. intermittently since 1974, with time off to do freelance computing for two firms. At one point he even considered becoming a drama major. Now a first-semester senior, McQuade uses his terminal for completing papers and assignments, for doing work as a Robotics Institute researcher, and for hacking programs on the side. Says he: "I'm not in any hurry to graduate...