Alan Kotok
Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation and at the World Wide Web Consortium . Steven Levy, in his book Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution, describes Kotok and his classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the first true hackers.
Alan Kotok was born in 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was raised as an only child in Vineland, New Jersey. During his childhood, he played with tools in his fathers hardware store and learned model railroading. He was a precocious child, skipping two grades at high school, and he matriculated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology aged 16. Although his interest in computers began at Vineland High School, his first practical experience of computing came at MIT there he developed a habit of working late at night when more computer time was available.
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