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Original: 12/4/2006 11:16 PM
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Monday, December 04, 2006

 

"Hacking" is such an interesting word. It makes me think of a strong, wet cough, but it also has implications for computers. Can anyone explain how this word got its technological meaning? Does it count as hacking if you break into someone's xanga because he foolishly told you his password?

Ah. The deep ponderables of life.

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And then there's always those bergers...
Posted 12/5/2006 8:19 AM by reflectionsonfaces - reply

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i hate my last name
Posted 12/5/2006 11:09 AM by Hackenbizzl - reply

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I love your last name, Rachel! But Harold. Why hot pink? Why? That is the real ponderable of life.
Posted 12/5/2006 11:42 AM by funkefreak - reply

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graciously. I like that. New colors. hmmmm
Posted 12/5/2006 5:04 PM by Zipperumpazoo3 - reply

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I am actually having fits of laughter at the moment.
Posted 12/5/2006 5:05 PM by Zipperumpazoo3 - reply

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Ahhhh.... so THAT'S the picture. OK.
Posted 12/7/2006 9:02 AM by covenantgal - reply

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ewww...the pink it starting to gross me out. It hurts to look at your website.
Posted 12/16/2006 7:44 PM by Zipperumpazoo3 - reply

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EWWWW!! The green is even grosser. It looked ok on my computer, but it looks quite disgusting when seen on my Dad's.

You are a bum. I am bored and you are having the time of your life at the Dentist.I have slept most of the day.

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I think I am reaching the point of giving up this foolishness altogether.
Posted 1/11/2007 9:05 PM by Zipperumpazoo3 - reply

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The etemology of the word hacker was like this: c.1700, originally, "person hired to do routine work," short for hackney "an ordinary horse" (c.1300), probably from place name Hackney (Middlesex), from O.E. Hacan ieg "Haca's Isle" (or possibly "Hook Island"). Now well within London, it was once pastoral. Apparently nags were raised on the pastureland there in early medieval times and taken to Smithfield horse market (cf. Fr. haquenée "ambling nag," an Eng. loan-word). Extended sense of "horse for hire" (1393) led naturally to "broken-down nag," and also "prostitute" (1579) and "drudge" (1546). Special sense of "one who writes anything for hire" led to hackneyed "trite" (1749); hack writer is first recorded 1826, though hackney writer is at least 50 years earlier. Sense of "carriage for hire" (1704) led to modern slang for "taxicab." Hacker "one who gains unauthorized access to computer records" is 1983, from slightly earlier tech slang sense of "one who works like a hack at writing and experimenting with software, one who enjoys computer programming for its own sake," 1976, reputedly coined at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hack (v.) "illegally enter a computer system" is first recorded 1984. I just made that up... am I not amazing... just kidding. I copied it from Online Etymology Dictionary.

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