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Discovering the Jargon File! The Living Relic of Hacker Culture

Redazione RHC 05/07/2025

Jargon File version 4.4.7 Today I would like to talk to you about a very old computer document, containing a piece of everyone’s hacker and computer culture times, of which many computer scientists do not even know its existence. It is a collection of technical culture terms, some of these dating back to the 50s, some coined at the Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT, and then updated over the years and arrived to us today. Winlosehackcrashdeamondeadlock These are just some of the terms present in the jargon file, terms that have become common jargon that we all know. The Jargon file

The History of Email. How This Invention Impacted the Modern Era

Redazione RHC 05/07/2025

Email was in fact the first of those disruptive revolutions that catapulted the world into the era of networks and the Internet. Thinking about offices today, before the email revolution makes many people smile, but in fact before this innovation, email messages had to be physically carried from one place to another through couriers and postmen. But in late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson, who worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), a contractor for the United States Department of Defense in 1968 that played a key role in the creation of the ARPANET network, precursor to the Internet, sent

The “Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace”

Redazione RHC 05/07/2025

“Governments of the World, weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of the Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you, beings of the past, to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty over the places where we meet.” Thus on February 8, 1996 began the document “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace“, on the applicability (or lack thereof) of Internet governance, in that rapidly growing historical period. It has been more than 10 years since the publication of the famous essay “The Hacker Manifesto” or “The Conscience

Satoshi Nakamoto: Discover the Mysterious Inventor of Bitcoin.

Redazione RHC 05/07/2025

The true identity of the creator of Bitcoin is one of the biggest mysteries in the tech world. Over the years, many theories have emerged about who Satoshi Nakamoto really is, ranging from a time traveler, an alien, an artificial intelligence or a cover for US intelligence, such as the NSA and the CIA. Satoshi Nakamoto The name Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym, an alias used by a person, or a group of people, who created Bitcoin while hiding their true identities. Satoshi is a Japanese name meaning “a man with wise ancestors” and is assumed to be male. On October 31,

The symbol of the hacker community: today we talk about the Glider.

Redazione RHC 03/07/2025

The hacker culture is a fascinating subject. It is a rich mine of outlandish innovation, genius and intuition. Of bizarre characters, of fatalistic humor, of memes, but above all culture, engineering and science. But while Linux has its penguin, BSD has its daemon and Perl His camel, what has always been historically missing in the hacker community was a symbol that represents its history and culture. Today we’re going to talk about the hacker symbol: the glider. The hacker symbol: the Glider. Free software guru Richard Stallman said that hackers had in common a love of excellence and programming. They wanted their

The Story of Open Source: A Success Story of Humankind

Massimiliano Brolli 02/07/2025

Author: Massimiliano Brolli, Pietro CornelioPublishing Date: 11/01/2021 Open source software is so present and integrated into our daily lives today that it would be difficult to think of a world without it. Talking about Linux, Android, Apache, are just some of the names we use in everyday life, which have become common jargon, but behind their communities of developers who created them, there is an intense and convulsive history that is interesting to know, especially if you work in the IT sector where the concept of open source has revolutionized the market of software. The philosophy of free software The history of

Do you really know what Hacktivism means? It’s a “special message of hope!”

Redazione RHC 02/07/2025

“Hacktivism, a special message of hope.” Thus begins the “Hacktivism Declaration”, published on July 4, 2001 by the famous hacker group Cult of the dead Cow (also called cDc or Omega). “Free speech is under siege on the fringes of the internet. Several countries are censoring access to the web…” In the beginning there was activism This is the activity that attempts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political and economic reforms, with the main desire to initiate strong changes within a society through demonstrations, sit-ins, hunger strikes and much more. Following the advent of microcomputers and the rise of

The History of FreeBSD

Redazione RHC 02/07/2025

We have often talked about Linux and the open source world, Windows and proprietary software and operating systems in general. But starting from the seed of Ken Thompson’s Unix, many operating systems have taken shape over time, and apart from the infinite Linux distributions that are proposed to us every day, there are other branches of the UNIX genealogy that are making the history of computing today, which is important to know. The beginning of the project A long time ago, in 1974 at the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Bob Fabry acquired from DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of

Italian Scientists: Federico Faggin, the Italian who invented the microprocessor.

Redazione RHC 01/07/2025

Among the illustrious Italian scientists, creators of cutting-edge technological innovations (we have already talked about Per Giorgio Perotto and Leonardo Chiariglione), Federico Faggin, the Italian who designed the first microprocessor, stands out without a shadow of a doubt. Federico Faggin was born in Vicenza, Italy, in 1941 and is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur who has always had a technical-scientific education thanks to his attendance at the ITIS “Alessandro Rossi” and his degree in Physics from the University of Padua, which he obtained at the age of just 19. He soon obtained a short-term job at the Olivetti Electronics Laboratory.

Famous Hackers: The Story of Gary McKinnon.

Redazione RHC 01/07/2025

A few months after the attacks on the World Trade Center, a strange message appeared on a U.S. Army computer: “Your security system is shit” it read. “I am Alone. But I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.” The Greatest Military Cyber Attack of All Time In fact, Gary McKinnon, single-handedly scanned thousands of U.S. government machines and discovered obvious security flaws in many of them. Solo broke into nearly a hundred PCs within the Army, Navy, Air Force, NASA, and the Department of Defense between February 2001 and March 2002. Solo navigated through them for months, copying files and