There are two subcultures which may conceivably be termed hacker culture, depending on which definition of 'hacker' is taken. In biology, a subculture in a population of a microorganism is when one microbe colony in such a population is transferred onto blank growth medium and allowed to freely reproduce. ... Hacker is a term used to describe different types of computer experts. ...
One of these is the voluntary subculture which first developed in the 1960s among academics and their students working on early minicomputers in University computer science environments. After 1969 it fused with the technical culture of the pioneers of the Internet, after 1980 with the culture of Unix, and after 1987 with elements of the early microcomputer hobbyists. Since the mid-1990s the open source movement has adopted this type of hacker culture as its own. Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... HP2114 minicomputer Minicomputer is a largely obsolete term for a class of multi-user computers which make up the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the largest multi-user systems (mainframe computers) and the smallest single-user systems (microcomputers or personal computers). ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Wikiversity Riverside Graphics Lab Open Directory Project: Computer Science Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Categories: Computer science | Academic disciplines ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... UNIX is a portable, multi-tasking and multi-user computer operating system originally developed by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... Apple IIc Generally, a microcomputer is a computer with a microprocessor (µP) as its CPU. Another general characteristic of these computers is that they occupy physically small amounts of space. ... The open source movement is an offshoot of the free software movement that advocates open-source software as an alternative label for free software, primarily on pragmatic rather than philosophical grounds. ...
The other subculture that sometimes refers to itself as hacker culture is found in what is often referred to as the computer underground. There is quite some overlap between this subculture and the other mentioned above, in both ideas and members. This culture is more concerned with the darker side of computer usage, particularly in security and cryptography.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (ISBN 0385191952) is a book by Steven Levy about the hacker culture. ... Hackers (ISBN 0441003753) is a collection of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. ...
External links
A Brief History of Hackerdom (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/hacker-history/) - more depth on the history of hackerdom
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