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Once I make my money I dream of opening a 90's esque hacker space like you see in movies like Hackers. Dark warehouse, neon lighting, The Protegy playing in th
by max182 4y ago
Once I make my money I dream of opening a 90's esque hacker space like you see in movies like Hackers.
Dark warehouse, neon lighting, The Protegy playing in the background, a place where hackers can bring there machines, talk tech and rage. Coffee in the mornings, bar at night.
- edvinbesic 4y agoAre you me?
- anony23 4y agoWe are all us.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoThat's funny, I've always wanted to open 90s-style Internet Cafe here in the bay area. Maybe not so much Prodigy, but now that my generation is all in their 40s and 50s, I figured it would be fun to combine really really good internet access with retrocomputing resources. I don't know if anyone's done that before. And I doubt it would be profitable. But I'd enjoy it.
- almost_usual 4y agoI’d totally go to this. I miss the 90s era Internet cafe.
- dig1 4y agoJamie Zawinski [1][2] (Netscape/Mozilla/Emacs/XscreenSaver fame) is running something similar called DNA Lounge [3], and has a blog with all sorts of stuff [4], from automating things with perl to running a night club business. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski [2] https://www.jwz.org/hacks/ https://www.jwz.org/hacks/ [3] https://www.dnalounge.com/ https://www.dnalounge.com/ [4] https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/ https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/
- dboon 4y agoMan, I love JWZ’s landing page for traffic from HN. He’s living the dream
- quickthrower2 4y agoSee also: http://n-gate.com/ http://n-gate.com/
- EricE 4y agoLove a lot of his content - find it a bit disturbing he's still pushing masks and the vaxx. Guess he's not paranoid enough yet.
- jrnichols 4y agoagreed. he has been and continues to be way over the top about it, continues citing fringe/extreme "sources" and still has "the pandemic is not over" as a headline. he's one that covid hysteria absolutely broke.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoDNA Lounge is a great nightclub, and it does have a Hackers-themed night most years, but I wouldn't call it "something similar". It's a nightclub. A very very cool nightclub - but a nightclub. (PS. If you click these, and your browser correctly forwards the refer(r)er URL, you will get a "funny" image, as jwz blocks links from HN.)
- myvoiceismypass 4y agoWhen I moved to the Bay Area a decade ago, I went to DNA just assuming that it was going to be that Hacker (movie)-esque space _all the time_. Like, I just pictured that in my head many many years ago and never bothered to actually correct it, until I got there. Delicious pizza @ DNA Lounge!
- quickthrower2 4y ago2022, and writing Wordpress plugins. Love it. Ignore all the hype and code what you need.
- quickthrower2 4y agoThe Prodigy? I loved The Prodigy!
- e12e 4y agoWhy the past tense? https://theprodigy.com/#live https://theprodigy.com/#live
- quickthrower2 4y agoGood point, I will do a prodigy session soon and love them again!
- wkat4242 4y agoYou could do that but it takes a ton of space, and it's a pain in the ass to work in. Image finding the screwdriver you dropped in a pile of junk when the lighting is nightclub style. We used to sit in the dark sometimes in our old makerspace but it would really know work if everyone used a computer and nothing else. In makerspaces this is rarely the case.
- buzzert 4y agoWhy hasn't this happened yet? Serious question. There are a LOT of Hackers fans here (as evidenced by the Hackers night at DNA Lounge), and a LOT of rich nerds. And the DNA Lounge is close, but it's still not Cyberdelia.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoBecause Hackers fans are all in their 40s and 50s, and a location like that would live or die based on its ability to attract the young, which it would not.
- buzzert 4y agoWhy wouldn't young people want to hang out at Cyberdelia?
- LeoPanthera 4y agoThey can't afford it.
- buzzert 4y agoI don’t know, I get the feeling people did not have to pay to hang out at Cyberdelia.