[watwut]

> But originally back in the 80s and 90s and even the 2000s a hacker was someone who did something different with their devices just for the sake of it

I am over 40 and it was already not used that way, except few old peple in few small subcultures angrily insisting on everybody else using the term wrong.

But among programmers, "hacking the code" was always negative.