Comment by anthk

The original hackers are the ones from the Lisp Machines and ITS/WAIS under the PDP10.

The rest of these are just PC wannabes.

Actual hacker knownledge: http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html

Under PC's, today, great hackers should be the guy behing https://t3x.org, the one behind EForth running under Subleq, reverse engineers, people reusing DNS' connections for tunnels such as the folks from Iodine, people reusing AWK+netcat (or plain GAWK) and awk+openssl to create Gopher and Gemini clients, Goerzen from https://complete.org creating NNCP and a bunch of nice tools...

And OFC Fabrice Bellard, which is on par with people from the MIT/SAIL and ITS/WAIS who created and expanded TECO Emacs, LISP, primordial AI, first networked environements, AI grounds...