> Hacker culture has been co-opted by a broad spectrum of folks

Seeing ourselves as better than the unwashed masses and dunking on noobs has been one of the defining characteristics of the hacker culture for as long as I remember. So was holding provocatively strong opinions about one's pet beliefs. Vi or emacs? MIT or GPL? Remember Tanenbaum dunking on Linus about how stupid his pet project was?

Granted, I wasn't around in the 1960s, but it was definitely a thing at least from the early days of Usenet.