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'Hacker' symbols: Why monkeys, ninjas, pirates and robots?
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September 23rd, 2009
These are all staples of the hacker images—or at least semiological memes beloved by geeks.
Why?
I can understand robots—something built from the intellect, an other that is capable of destroying its master (see SkyNet).
Ninjas, too, I suppose I can see the parallels between the geek psyche—a highly trained figure shrouded in secrecy and mystery is appealing to the hacker mindframce.
But monkeys? Really? Monkeys? Is this some LucasArts coup that’s become memetic? Or is Secret of Monkey Island merely tapping into a bifecta of geekery?
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