III. History of Hackers.
According to "Michelle Slatalla" "the history of hackers goes as far back as 1878, only difference is that back then they weren't called hackers yet." (http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/articles/history.html). In the year 1878 the major mean of communication was the telephone, and the Hackers where young teenagers who messed up with the switchboard. These teenagers were redirecting the phone calls to wrong places so they could have a good laugh at people. In a few words they were not "exactly what we call today "hackers", but instead practical jokers" (Michelle Slatalla, 2001).
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A switchboard.
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If someone wants to discover when the first hacking attacks against computers started then it is more logical to think back when then first computer was introduced. As an article states, back in the 1960s, "computers were big mainframes, locked away in temperature-controlled, glassed-in lairs" (http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/articles/history.html). It was very expensive to maintain a computer and it was also very difficult to program these big and ugly ( ) machines. Some clever programmers created programming shortcuts called "hacks" so the computers could be used by other people easier. These hacks were a very good thing because they gave more people the opportunity to use these mainframes, but it also gave the opportunity in the future to some people to attack these "hacks". "The UNIX system was one of the biggest hacks and was introduced back in 1969" (http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/articles/history.html). Therefore, a hacker was a person that created these hacks to help other people use those mainframes easier. .
1970 was the year when the first "bad" hackers appeared. It all started when "John Drapper" managed to make a long distance phone call for free. He did that "by blowing a precise tone into a telephone that tells the phone system to open a line.