Just like painters hackers sign their works. A common way is to use one’s initials. A collection of hacker initials:
- JSB – John Seely Brown
- ESR – Eric S. Raymond
- RMS – Richard Stallman
- EWD – Edsger W. Dijkstra
- @ – Adriaan van Wijngaarden
- NNT – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- MZ – Mark Zbikowski (read the EXE-file story here)
I would like to grow this list, please post additions to this list as comments. I will update the list accordingly.
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