Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site dalcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!garfield!dreacad!dalcs!holmes From: holmes@dalcs.UUCP (Ray Holmes) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Re: Hackers and others take note Message-ID: <1396@dalcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 12:52:31 EST Article-I.D.: dalcs.1396 Posted: Thu Dec 20 12:52:31 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 20:19:38 EST References: <2612@dartvax.UUCP> <17488@lanl.ARPA> <819@bnl.UUCP> <36@rti-sel.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada Lines: 24 > > > > When I started programming 7 years ago hackers were the ones > > building their own computer systems. ... A "hacker" was somebody > > who knew his stuff and spent more time in front of a terminal > > than he did with his family. > > > > The day I stop considering myself a hacker is the day > that I stop writing programs and start selling insurance door-to-door. > I also am proud to be called a hacker. When people call me a hacker > with a derogatory tone, I politely thank them for the complement and > leave them wondering what happened. I hope the incentives to become > a hacker (i.e. a person who write/improves program for the fun of it) > never die. LONG LIVE THE HACKER!!! Thank you and goodnight. > > Randy Buckland > Research Triangle Institute > ...!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb As I've said before, I am a HACKER and proud of it. To be called a hacker is one of the best compliments I can think of. The media use of the term is more than derogitory. Ray