the term hacker was first used at MIT(the massachusetts institute of technology)around 1969 the word hack was already in use at MIT to describe students pranks.These were often very creative tricks or jokes. computers were new to universities at that time, and there were not many computer manuals available so, the students had to figure things out by themselves, in the process they often wrote small section of code to make programs do what they wanted this soon became knows as "hacking" because the students had to use their creativity for their pranks because of this history, hackers consider themselves noble and curious people. They use hacking to satisfy their curiosity and to learn new computer skills but they do not believe in destroying information or causing trouble.