Before the Romanian cybercriminals, before Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller breached the Gibson mainframe, before even Matthew Broderick accessed the WOPR military supercomputer and narrowly averted launching World War III, the word “hacker” meant something very different. As Steven Levy chronicled in his 1984 book Hackers, the word was invented as a term of high praise by a group of MIT misfits trying to tame early computers like the PDP-6, finagling the hulking machine into doing things that seemed magical at the time: playing chess, running primitive videogames, emitting music-like sounds that vaguely resembled Bach.
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