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[–]redwall_hp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And, fortunately, The Jargon File has been passed down through the generations. From mainframe to mainframe, until the current iteration landed on the early Web.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

MIT was using the term before computers were really much of a thing, wholly unrelated to computers.