Without a Traceroute

Hacker fuel

One of the important elements of a subculture is its tendency to collectively select visible markers of membership in that culture: clothes, hairstyles, preferred products. Hackers as a culture are certainly not immune to this, but as a culture that prides itself on valuing accomplishment over image, the markers of membership in hacker culture tend to be functional outgrowths rather than stylistic flourishes.
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