d a very strong electrical communication network,
which was The Telegraph. Even the telegram had a much l...
Phreaking would fall as a Sub-Category under it, which is kind of ironic, because if looked from biologi... tronic Cracking, anything to do with electronics, which also includes computers. Through
the years I have... ng. I made up a
definition of my own for hacking, which I think fits best.
There can be two types of hac
vided the numbers for a couple of local
systems, which I proceeded to call when I got home. They were f... e
Master Kracker", a local Apple pirate, each of which saying they were
going to kick each others' asse... ceeded to log off and
call the Underground Star, which was filled with more of the same
sort of thing. ... BBSes at. He was also lacking a 1200 baud modem, which at the
time meant being restricted access to all
cluttered
computer room. A new mark sense reader (which read cards encoded with pencil)
enabled us to wri... t
down to the headquarters to use their teletype, which operated at the blinding
speed of 120 characters ... d after the language APL,
not the Apple computer, which wasn't invented yet). The secretary obliging
sign... mation, we kept this in our "Little Black Books", which were written in a
code that looked like a cross b
An almost entirely accurate retelling of events which
actually took place within the auth... used inserted comments and notes to explain terms
which were used, which may not necessarily be commonplace knowledge to laymen
or normal, non-geek members of s... gon or slang. Within the story itself, any words which may be found within
this glossary will be highli
e formed a sort of NAID Jr. (called Coma) in 1999 which ran
for 3 years, and I attended Coma2 in Septembe... ad by all.
The next party is called Pilgrimage which is in, of all places, Utah.
Find out more at pilg... He made
some fairly astonishing things, most of which I still have on disk. Also,
he typed in a fair a... s a preview for a game that would come
out later, which is what I thought all these demos were. There we
t move was to turn on the CompuServe chat
feature which would display a persons CompuServe ID after thei... s of the opposite sex to have CompuSex with you,
which was to have a private chat wherein you would type... f. I was
able to use the phone bill to determine which BBSs were local calls, and
narrowed my focus to ... At the time, the prevalent BBS software was RBBS,
which was shareware that ran only under DOS. RBBS bull
here were also a number of multi-line chat boards which were usually Adult type boards. This group and ou... board and net had a 'warboard' or 'flame-fest' in which you could (and were encouraged) to slam other use...
AND Nifty this SAME lame pre-pubescent term... (which in your case, would
be a *compliment* to call yo... y old users quickly filled their vacant positions which allowed new users to come in and created a new 'm
y from my
own writings in ENTROPY CALLING, which will be in a form suitable
for publicatio... s seems poised to engulf the reality from
which it was born, weaving together the threads of te... mention the
creation of hundreds of words which have found their way into the
online lexic... It was a VERY interesting time and place in which to grow up.
Of course the problem is a lo
tones out the collar that the mouthpiece was
in, which would be picked up and transmitted over the phone... rt with the computer prompting you for a command, which you would then
enter. The computer would then pri... he acoustic coupler modem we had ran at 300 baud, which was standard at
the time. That is nearly 200 time... baud translates to
about 30 characters a second, which means that a single line of 80 characters would t
ology. The prospect of
a dual-class society, in which the population is segregated into
the informatio... be utilized here.
As with any subculture which has been sparsely studied,
various definitions o... ccess to
computers - and anything else which might teach you
about the way the worl... possibly think we are going
to destroy that which is sacred to us? To take away
someone else'
g together those with mutual interests, something which never really took off to any great degree in the ... per to steal than it is to buy software (a factor which is still the case, see some of my previous articl... such practices would be... outlandish these days) which in many cases put the original developers program... st in the case of the Atari ST; the platform with which I am most familiar) the beating heart of what was
re, we had a *slew* of very inane 'HACKER' bbses
(which always related to BBS-hacking or phreak BOX files... ount. I decided to put up my own bbs (MogelLand, which was a
play off BlottoLand), and I downloaded like... area at the time (one is
"the hackers warehouse", which is on your site currently), and we made fun
of th... hem.
One e'zine that was really popular was VaS, which was started by a
guy named Studmuffin the same ye
an article
called, "mentos! the freedom givers!" which appeared in rad #1. i posted it
on local bbs's ... f the
rogue warrior series. also, at this time, which spurred most of this hatred
was caused by not on... d to make the
reader feel that he was necessary [which he was].
another thing we had going for us was ... still very popular in school or
what have you. which is why only occasionaly a rant would slip through
ter for the gifted program before I was enrolled, which involved being
asked what was wrong with certain ... o the voice-controlled Omnibot, to Lego Technics, which could be
hooked up to a computer and then actuall... C twice. . ." Then the login prompt would appear which
could either grant or deny your request for an e... self to
The Omniscience on Computer Patch, a name which was the maximum number of
characters the board al
hat printed the same thing over
and over again. (Which I thought was unbelievably cool.)
My dad bought ... ards, especially since we had metro phone service
which allowed me to call the entirety of Philadelphia w... t remember the picture format, but it
wasn't JPG (which didn't even exist yet) or GIF. I had a picture
viewer which made stuff viewable on my monochrome display.. I