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Cracking started likely much earlier when the old mainframe computers were around and fixing bugs in punch cards and such could be done by deep understanding of manipulating byte code level instructions.
People who worked on the first computers had a total mindset for reverse engineering, and writing assembly code. Of course it is a past generation nearly and a lot of it was done under NDAs and government secrecy.
The mentions here are mostly of an online cracking community which developed as mentioned.
The current community has largely stagnated probably due to the modern generations not having a good old command terminal to learn on. All these touch screen devices seem to be negatively effecting people and turning them into disinterested zombies who can play but not effectively learn and go deep into technology.
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