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HowStuffWorks "How Hackers Work" (689 words) |
 | Hackers were visionaries who could see new ways to use computers, creating programs that no one else could conceive. |
| They were the pioneers of the computer industry, building everything from small applications to operating systems. |
| Soon, the term hacker had a new meaning -- a person using computers to explore a network to which he or she didn't belong. |
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hacker: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (3680 words) |
| In hacker culture, a hacker is a person who has attained a certain social status and is recognized among members of the culture for commitment to the culture's values and a certain amount of technical knowledge. |
| This use of hacker as intruder (frequent in the media) generally has a strong negative connotation, and is disparaged and discouraged within the computer community, resulting in the modern Hacker definition controversy. |
| Hackers who have the ability to write circuit-level code, device drivers, firmware, low-level networking, (and even more impressively, using these techniques to make devices do things outside of their spec sheets), are typically in very high regard among hacker communities. |
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