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Kids today, no sense of history. The hacking scene was dead by September 1981. Oddly enough, it was marked as dead, again, in February of 1990. The last time
by spc476 17y ago
Kids today, no sense of history. The hacking scene was dead by September 1981. Oddly enough, it was marked as dead, again, in February of 1990. The last time the hacking scene was declared dead was April of 2000.
We probably have a few months before this hacker scene is also declared dead.
- philwelch 17y agoSome more details would make this post informative rather than simply an arcane inside reference.
- spc476 17y agoAugust, 1981---IBM releases the first IBM PC, legitimizing home computers and killing of a ton of quirky home computers over the next few years. The Homebrew Computer Club was pretty much over at this point in time anyway. January, 1990---Operation Sun Devil goes down, where the Secret Service arrest a bunch of teenagers who have illegally accessed computers and charged with disseminating internal AT&T documents describing how 911 works. The era of the 80s "hackers" ended. March 2000---the tech stock market crases. The Internet craze pretty much tanked at this point. None of this is anything I consider "arcane inside references" but hey, I'm into computer history.
- koepked 17y agoThanks for responding with these! I share your interest in computer history, and I also enjoy seeing, as best I can, computer culture. Never have I seen such a short summarization of the latter which has given me as much insight as this.
- HalcyonMuse 17y agoI'm surprised you didn't mention September 1993, the neverending September. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September This isn't a big date technologically speaking, but as far as the social history of the internet goes, it was huge. I suspect it's one of the big reasons AOL was so demonized. (There are obviously many others.)