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Hack A Day

October 21, 2004 | In general |

BinaryWolf comments on wireless antennas at HackADay, a recently launched site about cool modifications and clever circumventions, better known as hacks.
Timeline of the noun “hack” :

During the 1950s ham radio fans borrowed the term hacking from riding and defined it as creatively tinkering to improve performance. The modern, computer-related form of the term is likely rooted in the goings on at MIT in the 1960s, long before computers became common; the word “hack” was local slang which had a large number of related meanings. One was a simple, but often inelegant, solution to a problem.

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