people who don't understand curious minds

a very good video on this subject is available here.

captain crunch, aka john draper, used a toy included in captain crunch cereal to create the phone phreaking community. later jailed for his experimentations, john draper is properly termed as one of the first or most influential "hackers".

in that day in age, the term "hacker" was a term of endearment. it meant to reference someone who would stay up all night hack, hack, hack, hacking away to make something do what the "hacker" wanted to do. it was a term to reference someone who was savvy, brave, and persistent enough to create the computer world we live in.

the homebrew society gathered around the altair 8800, the first commercially available computer kit. the homebrew club featured many luminaries, but among them was steve wozniak.

woz knew how to make hardware, and also software to use that software. his high school friend steve jobs knew nothing, but was good at business. they joined together to create apple computers.

later, the term "hacker" was turned criminal. kevin mittnick, and his story, is a great example of why. He is also known as eric weiss. After national scares of hackers being capable of starting nuclear wars from a pay phone, the federal government cracked down.

ever since, the term "hacker", once used to compliment a person capable of bridging the gap between the present and the future is now used as a term of derision and criminality.

people who don't understand curious minds will never understand that there'll always be a group of younger minds who are little bit technical who wonder.... what if this? what if that?