Saturday, September 20, 2008

The Ten Greatest Hacks of All Time


Tech knowledge is like the Force: It can be used for good or for evil. And the greatest hackers in history are the ones who used their powers for good, to take technology to exciting places it was never intended to go.

You can hack your TiVo, your AppleTV, your Canon PowerShot, or (of course) your PC to make it do things its creators never intended. But we tried to go even further in our list of history's top ten hacks. We've looked back to computing's earliest days to find the most inspiring examples of hacker brilliance—in our entirely subjective opinion, of course. And none of these hacks are crimes—or at least, they shouldn't be. 

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