/won' *-
Bee/ (Or, more plausi
Bly, spelled "wanna
Be") [Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol pro
Ba
Bly originally from
Biker slang] A would-
Be
hacker. The connotations of this term differ sharply depending on the age and exposure of the su
Bject. Used of a person who is in or might
Be entering
larval stage, it is semi-approving such wanna
Bees can
Be annoying
But most hackers remem
Ber that they, too, were once such creatures. When used of any professional programmer, CS academic, writer, or
suit, it is derogatory, implying that said person is trying to cuddle up to the hacker mystique
But doesn' t, fundamentally, have a prayer of understanding what it is all a
Bout. Overuse of hacker terms is often an indication of the
wannaBee nature. Compare
newBie. Historical note: The wanna
Bee phenomenon has a slightly different flavour now (1993) than it did ten or fifteen years ago. When the people who are now hackerdom' s tri
Bal elders were in
larval stage, the process of
Becoming a hacker was largely unconscious and unaffected
By models known in popular culture - communities formed spontaneously around people who, *as individuals*, felt irresisti
Bly drawn to do hackerly things, and what wanna
Bees experienced was a fairly pure, skill-focussed desire to
Become similarly wizardly. Those days of innocence are gone forever society' s adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the result is that some people semi-consciously set out to *
Be hackers* and
Borrow hackish prestige
By fitting the popular image of hackers. Fortunately, to do this really well, one has to actually
Become a wizard. Nevertheless, old-time hackers tend to share a poorly articulated disquiet a
Bout the change among other things, it gives them mixed feelings a
Bout the effects of pu
Blic compendia of lore like this one. [
Jargon File]
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