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How has hacker culture changed? Not at all. I've been living, breathing, eating and drinking (less these days, tryna clean up my diet) the hacker culture, hacki
by hackernewsuser 11y ago
How has hacker culture changed? Not at all. I've been living, breathing, eating and drinking (less these days, tryna clean up my diet) the hacker culture, hacking continuously since late 1980s. Linux and Windows NT were of course the biggies, but after Windows XP it's been a meh fest turning into cringe fest, and Unix never changes.
One thing has changed: nowadays you can be even more reclusive and asocial than in the early, diskette-swapping, meatspace-meeting days.
Hacking will always be the same activity despite having more code at your disposal. Keep on hacking relentlessly and one day you'll make a sweet hack. Only then you truly understand what it is to be a hacker.
- greenyoda 11y ago"One thing has changed: nowadays you can be even more reclusive and asocial than in the early, diskette-swapping, meatspace-meeting days..." ...or in the even earlier days when all the hackers hung out together in a terminal room. I learned a lot about Unix in the early '80s by sitting side by side with some accomplished Unix hackers, to the point where the powers that be gave me the root password on the system (a PDP 11/45 running Seventh Edition Unix).