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I remember reading issue #1 I found on a BBS in the mid-90s and thinking that I was born about 10 years too late to enjoy the real golden era of computing.
by siltcakes 2y ago
I remember reading issue #1 I found on a BBS in the mid-90s and thinking that I was born about 10 years too late to enjoy the real golden era of computing.
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- thelittleone 2y agoThe mid-nineties was a treat for phreaking and hacking.
- ElectRabbit 2y agoPutting signalling and payload into the same pipe was a great decision decision for us
- keepamovin 2y agoExcellent deadpan delivery haha
- gwbas1c 2y agoOne of my callers brought down a local airport. (I heard bits and pieces of the story over time.) (Edit: I ran a dial-up BBS between 1996-1998.) Turns out they had a modem answering the phone for remote access, and no password. My caller (and a few others) would wardial and exchange numbers. They had no idea what they were calling. My caller, who brought it down, eventually found some documentation and the "reboot" command. He had no idea what happened when he rebooted the computer until the feds came knocking on his door. Later, I had an opportunity to meet one of the people involved in the investigation, who used the incident in a major keynote. I asked, "were you talking about the incident with [name of caller]?" He responded that "he didn't talk about investigations with minors." (Edit: Because my caller's phone was tapped, I was always afraid that I was on some kind of watch list.)