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Originally Posted by marketraise001
"The dark side of SEO known as Blackhat “BH "derives from the white hat and black hat label from the early hacker days. Because most people nowadays see hackers as someone who is evil and malicious, but really a hacker was just someone trying to learn more about computers, and gain more insight into it. Obviously once malicious hacking took place, it gave the term, “hacker” a really bad rep, so the good guys labeled the bad guys as black hatters, and themselves as white hatters." |
It goes back a lot farther than that, to the days of silent films where in cowboy movies (and other movies with good guys and villains) the good guys always wore white hats (and not infrequently were otherwise dressed in white as well) and the bad guys always wore black hats. Look up photos of Hopalong Cassidy or Roy Rogers as examples.
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