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More revisionist history from millenials who weren't there to know that things like GURPS and Legion of Doom and other things mentioned in this article were unk
by TedDoesntTalk 7y ago
More revisionist history from millenials who weren't there to know that things like GURPS and Legion of Doom and other things mentioned in this article were unknown at the time, even to other "hackers" and BBSs and usenet. Journalists decided to write about them and hail them as heros years later, changing what was pop culture to the cyberpunk world of those days to whatever they see as nostalgic and romantic and interesting. And for the record, no one who was actually IN the cybperpunk world in the 1980s (including the year 1990) actually used the term "cyberpunk", regardless of whether it was coined or not. Once the term was out there, it was definitely not a cool word and anyone who used it or labeled themselves that way was not at all a cyberpunk.
- StanislavPetrov 7y agoAs an older person deeply involved in the BBS communities of the 1980s and someone who played both Car Wars and GURPS I can tell you that these things were very well known among many of us.
- Accujack 7y agoNo. Maybe they were unknown to you, but not some of us. I first heard about the Phrack raids a week or so afterward, when certain of my peers in college began destroying floppies in a fit of paranoia. _Free_The_Atlanta_Three_