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Knight, Tom and Kotok, Alan Team

Knight, Tom and Kotok, Alan Team definition - hacker
Two of the original hackers at MIT in the 1960s. Then, a “hack” meant a prank of the kind that students played on their MIT faculty or their rivals—”out of the box” fun tricks such as wrapping the entire roof of the MIT building in tinfoil.

See Also: Good Hack.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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