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[–] [email protected] 171 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Being a hacker in the early days of computers must have been so fun and accessable

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

It was fun, indeed. People knew so little about the implications and possibilities of connecting two systems, that even if you didn’t hack anything worthwhile, it was easy to feel like a genius simply by war-dialing into another local nerd’s own Commodore 64.

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