[ggm]

To me the sense was always somebody who got a script and ran it. Not an author, but a kiddie who knew people who knew people who phreaked.

It was the gateway drug from amiga vid mod devs into hacking but rather than the hard way (learn to code) they bootstrapped in from somebody elses script.

[taneq]

Yeah, that's how we used it. You were a l337 h4x0r if you could actually code a buffer overflow or whatever. If you just knew how to floodping someone off the internet, or how to break into a computer using a script you got from someone who was actually smart, then you were a script kiddie.

[wccrawford]

It wasn't just someone who got a script and ran it. It was someone who acted like they were an elite hacker, but all they had were a collection of scripts that other people wrote.