I always found it amusing that the original Jargon File defined "hacker" tongue-in-cheekily as "one who carves furniture with an axe"—and when I first learned of Loyd Blankenship's authorship of the Hacker Manifesto in 2000 or so, he was running a business selling custom-made furniture.
I always found it amusing that the original Jargon File defined "hacker" tongue-in-cheekily as "one who carves furniture with an axe"—and when I first learned of Loyd Blankenship's authorship of the Hacker Manifesto in 2000 or so, he was running a business selling custom-made furniture.