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On a serious note. Does any etymology of "script kiddie" (or any other hacker-culture related terms) exist? That must be a fascinating history.
There is definitely earlier usages than 1999 and 2000. For example Phrack issue 54 which is from 1998. But it was used like it has been in the community jargon for a while. Anybody access to old IRC logs?

phrack.org/issues/54/1.ht…
Found even older reference in a published exploit by r00t from ~1996/97.

Thank you everybody who is archiving and preserving internet history (like @internetarchive and @textfiles) <3

cd.textfiles.com/cuteskunk/Unix…
But there must be much earlier usages... Found the usage of "kiddies" in 1994.
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