It seems as if the term LifeHack just came out of nowhere and blew up over the past few years.  Suddenly, people share tips and tricks to take shortcuts or save money in the everyday walk of life.  Is "life hacking" relatively new?  Not at all...just the means in which we get the information.  Which really isn't that new either...

The term was coined in the 1980's in the hacker culture explosion, and became popular once blogging took the world by storm.

"Originally the term arose in the 1980s among the first computer programmers devising and employing tricks to cut through information overload and organize their data.[1] The original definition of the term "hack" is an inelegant but effective solution to a specific computing problem. The term was later extended to life hack, in reference to a solution to a problem unrelated to computers that might occur in a programmer's everyday life. These included quick-and-dirty shell scripts and other command line utilities that filtered, munged and processed data streams like e-mail and RSS feeds.[2][3] Examples of these types of life hacks might include utilities to synchronize files, track tasks, remind oneself of events, or filter e-mail."

The popular website, Lifehack.org, was founded in 2005 and mainly intended for college students.

Just kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Are people who make or discover LifeHacks genius, or do they simply smoke to much pot and have to much time on their hands?

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