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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > Does the old hacker scene still exist?
 
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OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

Internet Old One posted:

It seems like there was some commonality between early hacker culture like you’d see at MIT and in zines like Youth International Party Line and the scene all the way up till the 2000s but after chanology it’s all aspiring criminals, hactivists, and security professionals.

Is there still some youth subculture somewhere revolving around m80s, prank calls, huffing glue, hacking your local branch library, and cringy writing?

I know some scene people still but we’re all old and wouldn’t be part of something so dumb and risky. Does it still exist?

this is here, on yospos. and irc, discord, in Twitter circles (less so now tho lol), and on mastodon, or maybe Bluesky. also in other niche forums, mailing lists, what have you.

it isn’t just one scene there’s like, so many, but they’re often lazer focused on like, a specific topic. maybe they’re into retrogames, rom hacks and fan translations? well there’s communities down to the console level for that

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