Yes, those were the days. I was there with Lari for a couple of years. The article is accurate but does not mention the hortible smells in ed 011, especially af

Yes, those were the days. I was there with Lari for a couple of years. The article is accurate but does not mention the hortible smells in ed 011, especially after 2-3 days of some of us being there non stop, no showers included. Unfortunately the article also hypes up the value and impact of "hacking". There was no rocket science nor much valuable to learn after hacking the 20th server with the same old tired exploits. Plus most stuff was easy then. This is why after the first 6-12 months of 3am hacking excitement, most of us moved on to learning difficult fundamental things such as algorithms, compilers, complexity, threading, AI and many others while others would still be in ED011 years later "hacking" away ... without really making progress. If you are thinking of pursuing CS as a major, certainly hack away in highschool and early on in collegebut eventually don t forget to go for the difficult fundamental things. Interestingly, Lari was not a CS student and ED 011 was his place of connection with computing ...