4 Generations

We mustn’t forget that motives change with the generations. First-generation hackers (at the end of the 1970s) were fired up by the thirst for knowledge.

The second (first half of the 1980s) were impelled by curiosity, joined with the thirst for knowledge and the fact that many operating systems could only become familiar by “penetrating“ them. Later, toward the second half of the 1980s, hacking became more wide-spread, partly because by now it was a fashion, a fad.