First use of the term "Hacker"?

[Chuckt]

I own the book "Hackers" (Heroes Of The Computer Revolution) by Steven Levy.

There are enough online posts or online articles that ask what "Hacker" means to them or what their personal definition means and I owned my first Commodore 64 in 1983 so I was around a little longer than the new generation was; I'm assuming this generation online are mostly kids. I was given the book "Hackers" for Christmas and the gift giver said it was where the term "Hacker" originated from. I'm just a little tired of the definitions I see today qualifying as Hacks. Read about some of the real Hackers. This book is probably the only book that shows where the term "Hacker" came from.

You can find the book on Amazon. The electronic version is cheaper. This book is copyrighted 1984.

[Chuckt]

http://tmrc.mit.edu/hackers-ref.html

[brad]

I have noticed the term 'hacker' to be used quite loosely these days!