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How did the "hacking" world go from "Let's organize and make accessible all of the world's information." to "Let's make a couple of phone calls to people you do
by jevgeni 11y ago
How did the "hacking" world go from "Let's organize and make accessible all of the world's information." to "Let's make a couple of phone calls to people you don't know" ?
- coldtea 11y agoDidn't it start from ""Let's make a couple of phone calls to people you don't know" (and/or "people you know")? Back when it was still called "phreaking". "Let's organize and make accessible all of the world's information" sounds like Xanadu's, Google's or a librarian's goal, not the "hacking worlds" in general...
- jevgeni 11y agoGood point. :) I've meant "hacking" in the (yet again) bastardized sense - the tech start-up scene. It just seems to me that the scale, or the grand vision of new tech start ups has been incredibly mundane lately. I often imagine myself listening to a pitch presentation that goes something like this: Hi, everybody, I'm Clarc McSugarHill <me: vaguely paying attention> and we are going to disrupt the market <me: interested, but annoyed by the buzz word> of buying fedoras online. <me: angry and asleep>