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We reached back into the early days of computing and dredged up the most inspiring examples of hacker brilliance we could find
Tech knowledge is like the Force: It can be used for good or for evil. And the greatest hackers in history are the ones who used their powers for good, to take technology to exciting places it was never intended to go.
You can hack your TiVo, your AppleTV, your Canon PowerShot, or (of course) your PC to make it do things its creators never intended. But we tried to go even further in our list of history's top ten hacks. We've looked back to computing's earliest days to find the most inspiring examples of hacker brillianceâ€â€Âin our entirely subjective opinion, of course.
And none of these hacks are crimesâ€â€Âor at least, they shouldn't be.
Spacewar! (1961)The PDP-1 mainframe was not designed to play computer games. Computer games were pretty much unknown in 1961. Then Steve Russell designed the first action-packed, graphics-based, shoot-'em-up game, controlled by the mainframe's front-panel switches. It was a hack, using the PDP-1 for a purpose it most certainly hadn't been intended forâ€â€Âand entertainment hasn't been the same since. Play it live today to re-create the glory.
Saving Apollo 13 (1970)NASA has made many brilliant hacks, but most of them have been about squeezing extra performance out of automated systems, such as the Mars exploration rovers, the Hubble telescope, and Pioneer 10. We'll give the prize to the hack that saved lives. After a fuel tank explosion severely damaged Apollo 13's command module, ground control and astronauts turned the ship's moon-landing module into a lifeboat, slingshotted around the Moon using the lunar module's tiny engine, hacked a system for removing carbon dioxide from the lunar module, and made it back to earth safely.
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Source:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330368,00.asp
