cking a 1200 baud modem, which at the
time meant being restricted access to all forms of pirate BBSes due
to its slow speed. Being a 300-baud only user in 1986 was the
equivalent of being an untouchable in India; you generally only
asso...
of files with the Xmodem protocal in addition to being one of the
most obscure, hard-to-learn, and powe
d Pegasus, ex-Kosmic/Noise) called Fuck Modesty. Being in
Montreal, many of the same locals from the NAI... what I thought
at the time, but I don't remember being particularly interested.
I would get into the... he Opera song 'Masquerade' as I had just finished being the piano
accompaniest for the local high school'... ame one of the
better boards in the area, despite being 2400 only. It was around this
time that I became
refront of an entire sub-
culture that was being rapidly assimilated into the cultural
... tell the public how this nefarious evil-doer is being pun-
ished by the long arm of justice. Th... o what
seemed logical.
The problem being that the more you try to act out of logic, the
... ount. What I had learned from this was that being poor
wasn't that much fun, and could reall
vities have been criminalized and hackers are now being legally
persecuted on a scale disproportional to... s
legitimate, or at least understood, instead of being simply written
off as devious teenagers who have... mputer-crime laws and how apprehended hackers are being
denied their Constitutional rights. (All such s... e, disruptive, and criminal. And, all the while, being
generally misunderstood. Because of this proble
could call from anywhere in North America without being billed. Ron and
I hooked up some voltmeters to ou... nce we were inside, we didn't have
to worry about being overheard, should somebody happen by. As it happe... em (mainly to "keep score" of whose programs were being run,
and how many times). Despite the jovial atmo... ere that pervaded Quitchan,
the battle lines were being drawn.
For our part, we were a bit miffed that d
by selling the software he is pirating, or being a very visible
member of the scene. Inf... ILLEGAL!" [Well, not
really, but literary license being what it is ] So he began watching all the
compute... to try and find a worthy system. Midnight Sorrow, being the
slightly spoiled, but highly imaginative youn... ng TCC (Tallahassee Community College,
bonehead). Being the curious old fart that he is, he asked for the
y sure what you're looking for, this might end up
being a lot of silly ramble. I'm also a bit tired toda... orny, but
that's what "SuperBand" projects end up being, I think. There were a few
'zines made during th... ers for what we write, and
sometimes it resembles being blindfolded, screaming into a cave--is anyone
lis... ver the years. I'm generally
known for being a "text file guy". E-zines, more specifically.
itting the crimes. The basic difference; A Hacker
being interested in knowing how the system works, and the cracker being interested in knowing how to break into
the syste... the BBSes. There was a lot of useful information being passed around on the
BBS, from there Mitnick lear... 995 in the movie Hackers, but in the movie it was being read from an issue of 2600 The Hacker
Quarterly w
put alot of emphasis on message bases, with doors being of secondary importance, and files the last. That... rowd'. After a while, I made a name for myself as being both: A) A kink-miester, B) A slam-artist. I was ... Local
M> Oh. Wow. How will i ever recover from being called a dumbass. C'MON
M> SHIT-FOR-BRAINS!!!! ... e same as the price of a Snickers Bar (and that's being kind).
You probably are just like your dad: no fr
- I called many BBSes listed in Computer User,
being a free hardcopy of a BBS list for the 612. Someti... warez.
He had an even slower system than mine, being an original IBM PC. The
only mediums we could ... was at least 20 knock-offs of it each pretty much being
the same. After several months of running this... y hope to publish,
chronicling all the days of being on BBSes and the net from
1989-present)
was alone for a while. Then I realised I was just being an arrogant fuck.
No one is to blame for any of... www.thegreatone.me.uk/articles/).
Despite there being many a fine C64 Cracking/Pirate Crew in the early... and 90's.
With the primary distribution channel being "hand to hand passing" large networks of Pirates ... d to those that remember them; The Alien Vs Guido being one of the more memorable). The sense of communit
e quality of the pirated games discussed on them; being cool
also meant that the phone was busy more. But... e basically free, the
main benefit of running one being that it made you a hep cat in the local BBS scene... ring
non-work hours, presumably because they were being run on someone's desk at work. Some were
unavaila... tage of the multi-user aspect of
the BBS, without being hampered by the fact that only one person was con
hts. I also thought that maybe this might end up being a paying gig.
I asked him what was involved. H... ined that the
article would be about pornography being available on BBS systems.
Back in those days we ... ourse, a lot of long distance and toll calls were being made by the
Sysops. We were footing the bill fo... nt of the network because
we felt that they were being heavy handed and sometimes rude to our users.
ferred the green
monochrome... I'm remembering it being "sharper", for one thing).
Somewhere along the l... ed "mhv.net" (internet), which of course wound up being the
beginning of the end of my local involvement.... a handle. I distinctly remember it coming down to being
either "The Fool on the Hill" or "Mean Mister Mus... online world(s), there was also the excitement of
being someone entirely new, in worlds where entirely ne
me to get onto Rite Way.
I poked around the BBS, being new to the community. I wanted to learn
as much ... ding, downloading and using the
message systems. Being young, I made a couple breeches of
etiquette...Pa... gh
information that I felt I could launch a BBS. Being in high school, my
parents (especially my mother)... any of them in years.
I wasn't about to give up being a sysop, though. I latched on to Web
development