I've been programming and part of "hacker" culture for over 40 years now so I get it. 20 years ago you would get people lamenting that 20 years before that eve

I've been programming and part of "hacker" culture for over 40 years now so I get it. 20 years ago you would get people lamenting that 20 years before that everything was all hippy sunshine and rainbows and homebrew computer club, phreaking and shareware etc, and that wasn't true then just like it isn't now. I don't think anarchism has ever been the mainstream position at least never in my experience. It has always been present but always been fringe.