neil (neil_da_nub)

Race #645

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Official speed 70.07 wpm (85.63 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start June 18, 2020 11:49:10pm UTC
Race Finish June 18, 2020 11:50:35pm UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 3)
Opponents 2. sprachzarathustra (86.96 wpm)
Accuracy 94.0%
Points 94.59
Text #4180181 (Length: 500 characters)

Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.