January 9th, 2017(This article was co-written along with Shawn Aldridge.)
The story starts in the 1960s. Kind of. The age of computers, at least as we know them, is in its infancy. Over at MIT, “hacks” are actually a good thing. They’re just shortcuts that programmers use.
It isn’t really until 1971 that things take a turn. A man named John...
