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iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them (www.404media.co)
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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

https://www.etymonline.com/word/hack#etymonline_v_41496

I don't see anything about hacking in this sense that predates the 1970s. Pretty sure systems hacking predates "IKEA hack" as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Earliest I've heard was from MIT and the pranks they do. I think that was from the fifties.

    Yes, Ikea hacks are much later. Me and my wife were doing it/calling it that around 2005 when we modded a desk. It was intended to be an example of the dual usage of the word hack.

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