How to Become a Hacker?
Top 10 things to learn.
When we hear the word “hacker,” what do we think about it? A person typing fast meaningless keys into his laptop/computer.
The first time “hack” was used about technology was in 1961 at MIT, where hacking meant working on a tech problem more creatively. It’s the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. The culture then flowered at the universities connected to the net after ARPANET was developed by the Defense Department (1969). But also in that year with ARPANET a hacker invented UNIX. Then another one later in 90' invented Linux and afterward, the open software culture appeared. Linux is so used today because a hacker built it for hackers. Those early years can be examined in Steven Levy’s book Hackers. (John Draper, also known as Captain Crunch supposedly being the first hacker.)
What is a Hacker?
Hackers fix problems and build things, they believe in freedom. They don’t have to be nerds to be hackers. This is a misconception propagated by the newspapers and glorified by Hollywood movies to sell more. Probably they need to be…
