cts a personal account of my own
journey through Cyberspace and what it has meant to me and a
... faced with, you discover that you can blow right through
all of them without even slowing down. In... of the growth and acclimation that people go through during their
teenage years. Which is wher... t an essay on the evils of
manipulation through the use of media, I will stick with a very
developed by Stewart, Smith,
and Denton (1984). Through its activities, this subculture
actually plays a... d subtly undermining state and corporate
control through computers and related technologies.
It wi... hacker's plight to the attention of sociologists
through a theoretical framework; that is the primary purp... asion is the essence of social movements.
Through the application of this criteria, the hacking
su
with electronics, which also includes computers. Through
the years I have seen people make the error of co... means the line is busy and you can.t
put the call through, if its not you just pop the cord all the way in,... m, when they do they basically go into the
system through the hole, Crackers are different, they don.t stud... around the world. At no charge, he routed a call through different phone switches in
countries such as Jap
and set up a procedure that would route all users through our own front-end
program. The next day, when the... o a tape recorder. They could then play this
back through their own teletype and see what we'd been typing.... ad gone home, they would open the window,
squeeze through a small hole near the ceiling, remove the ventila... story building. Indeed, this is a fellow who rode through a 2 mile railway
tunnel clinging to the outside o
12 year old), logged in, and remember
navigating through the message boards, where people cursed at each
... 10000,
followed by a number. If the number goes through, you have a good
code. If not, redial and start... to all matter of punk, new wave, and dance music through
people in this scene, many of whom might have li... access to numerous Unix, VAX, and Primos systems
through binges of all-night scanning and attacking common
ay Hoyle's Card Games. Or I'd
be shooting my way through the bricks of Arkanoid, and my mom would kick me
... ours until I could check replies to my replies.
Through this practice, I became used to seeing a few name... ored me in person, of course, but we'd correspond through the \
primitive mail system about the game, and b... e
artists, Patrick Nagel and Olivia DeBerardinis, through what I now know were
illegally copied versions of
inous possibilities involved).
Today people flit through the Internet and email, and this archaic stuff so... across the time it takes every participant to get through to the BBS, you
have a pretty accurate idea of wh... BBSs, since it could take an hour or more to get through to any given one. I had
a list of three or four t... ng each
of them in a round-robin way, until I got through to one. Once I had reviewed any new
bulletins, po
. Color? How
do you get color? Pizzaman got me through it all and before my eyes were
bright colored men... ? Nah. Dave's BBS? Uh, no. I started flipping through the phonebook
for cute names of businesses for so... ere being
transferred across the country everyday through long distance and
satellites. We had several nat... We had already started
getting Internet messages through our networks and were overwhelmed with the
number
me to be a rather good friend of mine, but it
was through them that I got my first taste of scene bullying ... asn't quite sure what it was.
The deal was that through Tymnet (a gateway network that many business,
res... e first two mod trackers I really ever spoke with
through email were The Finn/VLA and Jester/Sanity, the fa... ater release. Even so, I met a
great many people through my involvement with the euro side of things, and
p,
SPACE(St. Paul Atari Computer Enthusiasts). Through contacts on TCCN,
I met a fellow by the name o... er.
It's basically what I and many others went through. They do not really
know any sort of BBS etiqu... he many lone-standing h/p BBSes out there. It ran through
most of 1995.
The Crackhouse - I think ... this 14 year old girl who I was introduced to
through a friend. This was the total sum of all bad WWIV
of course, was 312-889-1240, and we actually got through
on the first try. I can still picture the text ... o Disk" - I remember watching each sector scroll
through - with a textual representation of what it was - ... baud mode, I was
back to BBS'ing and did so all through high school, graduating in the
Summer of 1996. ... go, I had already been introduced to
that world through the Atari board years ago, and without getting to
e use. He had friends all over the United States, through which
contact was made possible by the use of oth... w rather
eloquently, still hazing-n-dazing around through the depths of a most gigantic
hangover. Needless ... f
265 pounds, all of six foot four, come smashing through the front door. "OK
you stupid shit, talk to me!"... e
called her father, and her father came crashing through his own front door,
seriously contemplating murde
rowds, just phantom signals playing hide-and-seek through a
fiber-optic maze that slithered across the wor... e was nothing on the Grumman bust, so I scrolled
through the section devoted to hyping other BBSs. there ... with flying colors, bullshitted
my way miserably through the second, and confessed in the third
that my g... oard to see whether I'd been
validated. I keyed through the login procedure and waited for the
brush-off
much more expensive if I had to get them directly through Dialog), and
starting around late 1992, direct telnet access through the Internet.
Of course back then, Gopher was ... something similar. It featured
Internet access through CERFnet--at about $50/hour. Yikes. I tried to
... on now). Currently I get most of my net access through the Road Runner
cable modem service, so soon d
the concept--the whole idea of sharing files
not through just one central system, but through any number of
trackers. The very nature of bittorrent prevents it f... d google, but it is a lot of
information to sift through. Are there any sites that give a sense of
what ... ve accounts from people who
lived and are living through them, and chronicle the various important
trends