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Hack!
What Happened?
There was a time when hacking was easy. You simply grabbed an ax and started hacking away at a tree. Or if you live in more tropical climates you grabbed a machete and hacked away at the underbrush.
Hack meant aggressively or forcefully chopping up something. Simple.
The term hack was also used to describe someone who was mediocre at something or made a half-hearted attempt. A hack golfer wasn’t very good at golf.
A hack writer produced dull, uninspired writing. Some things never change. Except now they are called influencers.
Then computers became an everyday item and suddenly people became hackers. They “hacked” into computers. It was a fairly fitting term since they typically did it to cause damage to the system they hacked. Later on they hacked to steal information or money. Businesses got tired of…
