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I am a crazy tinkerer when it comes to technology. When I first started using computers back in the Apple II and Commodore days, my friends would play games but I would execute every system executable to see what would happen. I was a strange child. I would see if I could chain together pieces of binary in shell scripts to see if I could change the way in which the computer worked. I then discovered Unix in my first year of college. My path was set and I was in love.This spirit of prodding and poking which evidenced itself strongly during the 60′s among computer software, electronics and model train enthusiasts became known as “hacking”. Hackers desired to know as much as they could about the systems they used at work or at play and also to share that knowledge and show off their successes and failures. Hacking is as much about the recombining of pieces as it is about the disassembling – a form of electronic and digital alchemy.The hacking culture was essential for the creation of the giants of technology that we have today. In the late 80′s and early 90′s law enforcement was starting to tackle the rise of computer crime and they, with help of the media, started a single heading of “hackers”. Today the term is almost always used in the negative sense and the subculture has been forced to adopt new names such as “makers”.I am grateful to those hackers that share their creations and understandings so willingly. The internet has enabled these communities to reach beyond the limits of geography and create a new kind of hackerspace. May the hacker spirit live on!

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