Honestly, probably Phrack more than anything else. Sometime in the mid 90s I stumbled across an archive of old issues of Phrack on a BBS and I completely devour

Honestly, probably Phrack more than anything else. Sometime in the mid 90s I stumbled across an archive of old issues of Phrack on a BBS and I completely devoured them. They spoke to me a way very few things had before or since and I desperately wanted to be part of that world. While I'd learned a bit of programming as kid and always 'played' with computers, Phrack made me go deep. I read back issues 2600 and Dr Dobb's and checked out any programming book I could find from the library. I eventually managed to download enough Slack floppies and boot up my first Linux computer and then it just kind of went from there. Looking back I can trace a pretty straight line from where I am now, to 15 year old me reading those first issues of Phrack.