siehe unter „MIT Building 20“ (Memento vom 15. September 2016 im Internet Archive), tmrc.mit.edu – „…creativity inundated the place to such a level that the term hacking was created by TMRC members. TMRCies (TMRC members) soon learned to „hack“ electronic and mechanical devices to help their purposes. The practice to make things do what you need, even if they were not designed for it (a hack) became part of MIT’s culture“; „MITCo“ (Memento vom 23. September 2015 im Internet Archive), tmrc.mit.edu & „Chronology of hacks“
siehe tmrc.mit.edu „Hackers“ (Memento vom 3. Mai 2006 im Internet Archive) – „Here at TMRC, where the words "hack" and "hacker" originated and have been used proudly since the late 1950s,…“
siehe unter „MIT Building 20“ (Memento vom 15. September 2016 im Internet Archive), tmrc.mit.edu – „…creativity inundated the place to such a level that the term hacking was created by TMRC members. TMRCies (TMRC members) soon learned to „hack“ electronic and mechanical devices to help their purposes. The practice to make things do what you need, even if they were not designed for it (a hack) became part of MIT’s culture“; „MITCo“ (Memento vom 23. September 2015 im Internet Archive), tmrc.mit.edu & „Chronology of hacks“
siehe Hacker (Memento vom 7. Oktober 2009 im Internet Archive) (PDF; 3,0 MB) – Vortragsfolien von Frank Kargl (CCC – Ulm, 2003) die einen Überblick über die Wurzeln und Geschichte der Hackerbewegung aus Sicht des CCC geben.