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by pbhjpbhj 2597 days ago
A little searching of Happy Hacker related stuff turns up this:

"And you'll know you are vastly better than the "code kiddies" who go to places like the Scriptors of Doom website to pick up programs (e.g. Perl scripts) to use to break into people's computers." (Meinel, 1996 [1])

I couldn't quickly find the Scriptors of Doom website to check there.

They say in the OP that Wikipedia has 2000 as the earliest use, but Slashdot has use a few times in 1999 eg [2] ... perhaps the people writing Wikipedia hadn't heard of /.

[1] http://verbosity.wiw.org/issue6/meinel.html

[2] https://ask.slashdot.org/story/99/06/05/1815225/ask-slashdot...