
36 Chapter 1 • Hacking Methodology
Solutions Fast Track
A Brief History of Hacking
; In the 1960s, it was the ARPANET, the first transcontinental
computer network, which truly brought hackers together for
the first time.The ARPANET was the first opportunity that
hackers were given to truly work together as one large group,
rather than working in small isolated communities.
; In the mid-1970s, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs—the very men
who founded Apple Computer—worked with Draper, who had
made quite an impression on them, building “Blue Boxes,”
devices used to hack into phone systems. Jobs went by the nick-
name of “Berkley Blue” and Wozniak went by “Oak