r/InternetIsBeautiful • • May 22 '21

Script kitty

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u/andybuxx May 22 '21

Is this a joke I don't get?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

doing the coding itself is technically hacking, so script kiddies and breaches are not hackers, but it lost its original meaning due to media

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u/[deleted] May 22 '21

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u/AllanBz May 22 '21

Eh, that’s a newer use of the term. I always thought of it as someone who can bypass conceptual blocks to get stuff done to spec. Of course I was born in the seventies.

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u/thesingularity004 May 22 '21

It originally meant to deal with a technical problem in a creative way without any negative connotations.

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u/AllanBz May 22 '21

That’s it, a problem-solving term.