> HACKER: one who hacks, or makes them.
> A hacker avoids the standard solution. The hack is
> the basic concept; the hacker is defined in terms of it.
(edit: The article claims that the 1963 usage was the "first", however on reading the linked listserv.linguist.org posting by Fred Shapiro, it appears that it's the first citation that uses "hacker" with negative connotations.)
[1] http://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html [2] http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0306B&L=ad...