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What, you can’t read that? Oh. O.K.

On this day, the word “hacking” was used in an issue of “the tech”, which is a massachusetts institute of technology newspaper.

Here is a snippet of the article:

Many telephone services have been curtailed because of so-called hackers, according to Prof. Carlton Tucker, administrator of the Institute phone system…

Basically, hackers were tying up phone lines between Harvard and MIT.

1985 – Also on this day, Microsoft releases Windows 1.0, the 16 bit graphical system in 4 versions. 1.01, 1.02, 1.03 and 1.04. 1.02 and 1.03 were language versions, while 1.04 let people use new technologies like VGA monitors and a cool feature of “Multitasking” in MS-DOS. The OS only cost $99.99

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• AT&T launches the Teletype
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