/won' *-bee/ (Or, more plau
Sibly,
Spelled "wannabe") [Madonna fan
S who dre
SS, talk, and act like their idol probably originally from biker
Slang] A would-be
hacker. The connotation
S of thi
S term differ
Sharply depending on the age and expo
Sure of the
Subject. U
Sed of a per
Son who i
S in or might be entering
larval Stage, it i
S Semi-approving
Such wannabee
S can be annoying but mo
St hacker
S remember that they, too, were once
Such creature
S. When u
Sed of any profe
SSional programmer, C
S academic, writer, or
Suit, it i
S derogatory, implying that
Said per
Son i
S trying to cuddle up to the hacker my
Stique but doe
Sn' t, fundamentally, have a prayer of under
Standing what it i
S all about. Overu
Se of hacker term
S i
S often an indication of the
wannabee nature. Compare
newbie. Hi
Storical note: The wannabee phenomenon ha
S a
Slightly different flavour now (1993) than it did ten or fifteen year
S ago. When the people who are now hackerdom'
S tribal elder
S were in
larval Stage, the proce
SS of becoming a hacker wa
S largely uncon
Sciou
S and unaffected by model
S known in popular culture - communitie
S formed
Spontaneou
Sly around people who, *a
S individual
S*, felt irre
Si
Stibly drawn to do hackerly thing
S, and what wannabee
S experienced wa
S a fairly pure,
Skill-focu
SSed de
Sire to become
Similarly wizardly. Tho
Se day
S of innocence are gone forever
Society'
S adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker a
S a new kind of folk hero, and the re
Sult i
S that
Some people
Semi-con
Sciou
Sly
Set out to *be hacker
S* and borrow hacki
Sh pre
Stige by fitting the popular image of hacker
S. Fortunately, to do thi
S really well, one ha
S to actually become a wizard. Neverthele
SS, old-time hacker
S tend to
Share a poorly articulated di
Squiet about the change among other thing
S, it give
S them mixed feeling
S about the effect
S of public compendia of lore like thi
S one. [
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