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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?
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akadajet posted:it's roblox all the way down, unfortunately. No no we can work with this. We need to mod minecraft so that it has realistic drug and explosive crafting, raw sockets, telephony, and a network scanner.
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Sweevo posted:those people were never really all that relevant even back in the day. they were just the only people on the internet so you heard about their bullshit a lot more What people and relevant to what? YIPL predates arpanet and when I think of MIT hackers I think of ITS which also predates arpanet. A lot of the scene people I knew in the 90s grew up to be pretty important.
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Oct 19, 2023 22:21
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OldAlias posted: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. Yeah but we’re like grown ups and generally expect a certain level of maturity there might be kids in these scenes but they’re not behaving like it’s the lord of the flies. There’s other cultural differences that are pretty hard to explain. Like if the scene still existed the way it did from 1960 to especially the 80s and 90s we would probably universally disapprove. I wouldn’t want to be involved in any such scene but I would be curious about it. I think some of the other posters are on to something about today’s severe consequences. By the 90s everyone was extremely paranoid and it helped foster a very hostile culture.
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