[1] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wannabee
     n : an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant";
         "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience
         was full of madonna wannabes" syn: aspirant, aspirer,
          hopeful, wannabe
see also:
aspirant aspirer hopeful wannabe 

[2] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

wannabee /won'-bee/ n. also, more plausibly, spelled `wannabe' from
   a term recently used to describe madonna fans who dress, talk, and act
   like their idol; prob. originally from biker slang a would-be hacker.
   the connotations of this term differ sharply depending on the age and
   exposure of the subject. used of a person who is in or might be entering
   larval stage, it is semi-approving; such wannabees can be annoying but
   most hackers remember that they, too, were once such creatures. when
   used of any professional programmer, cs academic, writer, or suit, it
   is derogatory, implying that said person is trying to cuddle up to the
   hacker mystique but doesn't, fundamentally, have a prayer of
   understanding what it is all about. overuse of terms from this lexicon
   is often an indication of the wannabee nature. compare newbie.

   historical note: the wannabee phenomenon has a slightly different
   flavor now 1993 than it did ten or fifteen years ago. when the people
   who are now hackerdom's tribal elders were in larval stage, the
   process of becoming a hacker was largely unconscious and unaffected by
   models known in popular culture -- communities formed spontaneously
   around people who, _as individuals_, felt irresistibly drawn to do
   hackerly things, and what wannabees experienced was a fairly pure,
   skill-focused desire to become similarly wizardly. those days of
   innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to the advent of the
   microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker as a new
   kind of folk hero, and the result is that some people semi-consciously
   set out to _be hackers_ and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the
   popular image of hackers. fortunately, to do this really well, one has
   to actually become a wizard. nevertheless, old-time hackers tend to
   share a poorly articulated disquiet about the change; among other
   things, it gives them mixed feelings about the effects of public
   compendia of lore like this one.


see also:
hacker larval stage suit wannabee newbie 

[3] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

wannabee
     
        /won'-bee/ or, more plausibly, spelled "wannabe" madonna
        fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; probably
        originally from biker slang a would-be hacker.  the
        connotations of this term differ sharply depending on the age
        and exposure of the subject.  used of a person who is in or
        might be entering larval stage, it is semi-approving; such
        wannabees can be annoying but most hackers remember that they,
        too, were once such creatures.  when used of any professional
        programmer, cs academic, writer, or suit, it is derogatory,
        implying that said person is trying to cuddle up to the hacker
        mystique but doesn't, fundamentally, have a prayer of
        understanding what it is all about.  overuse of hacker terms
        is often an indication of the wannabee nature.  compare
        newbie.
     
        historical note: the wannabee phenomenon has a slightly
        different flavour now 1993 than it did ten or fifteen years
        ago.  when the people who are now hackerdom's tribal elders
        were in larval stage, the process of becoming a hacker was
        largely unconscious and unaffected by models known in popular
        culture - communities formed spontaneously around people who,
        as individuals, felt irresistibly drawn to do hackerly
        things, and what wannabees experienced was a fairly pure,
        skill-focussed desire to become similarly wizardly.  those
        days of innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to
        the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the
        elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the
        result is that some people semi-consciously set out to be
        hackers and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the popular
        image of hackers.  fortunately, to do this really well, one
        has to actually become a wizard.  nevertheless, old-time
        hackers tend to share a poorly articulated disquiet about the
        change; among other things, it gives them mixed feelings about
        the effects of public compendia of lore like this one.
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
hacker larval stage suit wannabee newbie jargon file 

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