Hackers Descend on a Campus Near You
Nick Quinlan鈥檚 parents didn鈥檛 quite understand the concept of a hackathon. No, he told them, being a hacker doesn鈥檛 mean breaking into things. It means building them.
In the early days of computing, Mr. Quinlan said, hackers were people who built things "elegantly." But the word eventually took on the negative connotation we know today.
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