wannabee
/won' *-b ee/ (Or, mor e plausibly, sp ell ed "wannab e") [Madonna fans who dr ess, talk, and act lik e th eir idol probably originally from bik er slang] A would-b e ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=hacker">hacker. Th e connotations of this t erm diff er sharply d ep ending on th e ag e and exposur e of th e subj ect. Us ed of a p erson who is in or might b e ent ering ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=larval stage">larval stage, it is s emi-approving such wannab ees can b e annoying but most hack ers r em emb er that th ey, too, w er e onc e such cr eatur es. Wh en us ed of any prof essional programm er, CS acad emic, writ er, or ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=suit">suit, it is d erogatory, implying that said p erson is trying to cuddl e up to th e hack er mystiqu e but do esn' t, fundam entally, hav e a pray er of und erstanding what it is all about. Ov erus e of hack er t erms is oft en an indication of th e ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=wannabee">wannabee natur e. Compar e ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=newbie">newbie. Historical not e: Th e wannab ee ph enom enon has a slightly diff er ent flavour now (1993) than it did t en or fift een y ears ago. Wh en th e p eopl e who ar e now hack erdom' s tribal eld ers w er e in ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=larval stage">larval stage, th e proc ess of b ecoming a hack er was larg ely unconscious and unaff ect ed by mod els known in popular cultur e - communiti es form ed spontan eously around p eopl e who, *as individuals*, f elt irr esistibly drawn to do hack erly things, and what wannab ees exp eri enc ed was a fairly pur e, skill-focuss ed d esir e to b ecom e similarly wizardly. Thos e days of innoc enc e ar e gon e for ev er soci ety' s adaptation to th e adv ent of th e microcomput er aft er 1980 includ ed th e el evation of th e hack er as a n ew kind of folk h ero, and th e r esult is that som e p eopl e s emi-consciously s et out to *b e hack ers* and borrow hackish pr estig e by fitting th e popular imag e of hack ers. Fortunat ely, to do this r eally w ell, on e has to actually b ecom e a wizard. N ev erth el ess, old-tim e hack ers t end to shar e a poorly articulat ed disqui et about th e chang e among oth er things, it giv es th em mix ed f eelings about th e eff ects of public comp endia of lor e lik e this on e. 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