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Like email lists / irc / github ?

• dakrisht 14y ago
  I remember how amazing IRC used to be in the 90s - it was the goto for the Internet public. The Internet that wasn't wasting time in AOL chat rooms. Picture a closed community where you can't just join because it's cool - you have to be somewhat credible - have created something - anything, posses skills, talent, a relative position of employment, etc. certain "criteria" - to build a talents, rich community. Just like FB did it with Harvard only, then Stanford, then colleges, you get the picture.
  • kybernetikos 14y ago
    Closed communities are not very hackerish.
    • shanelja 14y ago
      They are if you provide a backdoor for the none-member hackers to connect through.
      • kybernetikos 14y ago
        true, they'd be a little hackerish if it was a closed community of zero people with an exploit to get in...