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I remember using the services like the ones listed here, specifically hotline. I actually got started with a clone called Carracho, and eventually moved to Haxi

by efnx 3y ago

I remember using the services like the ones listed here, specifically hotline. I actually got started with a clone called Carracho, and eventually moved to Haxial KDX. I met a lot of cool folks on KDX and learned about “hacking” which morphed into a full fledged career in software engineering.

adrianpike 3y ago
Early Hotline was amazing from a hacker community perspective - I ran a series of hotline servers off of dialup, and then was able to get some hardware on my high school campus and have a server on our T3 for all of a day or two before our sysad called me in and said that hypothetically, if someone had a hypothetical Performa plugged in and was hypothetically to turn the hypothetical thing off that day, nobody would get suspended, and then that hypothetical someone could hang out in gap periods or after school and get paid to do actual IT work for the school department, learn a ton, and kickstart a fairly decent career hacking on stuff and getting paid for it - and hypothetically help run the official unofficial school Hotline server. Super grateful to that dude to this day, I hope I'll get the chance to pass it on.