Brief History Of Hacking In The 1980s
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<H1>The Golden Age (1980-1989)</H1>
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<FONT SIZE=+1><B>In 1981 IBM announced a new model -a stand-alone machine, fully loaded with a CPU, software, memory, utilities, storage. They called it the "personal computer." You could go anywhere and do anything with one of these hot rods. Soon kid
s abandoned their Chevys to explore the guts of a "Commie 64" or a "Trash-SO."
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The 1983 movie War Games shone a flashlight onto the hidden face of hacking, and warned audiences nationwide that hackers could got into any computer system. Hackers gleaned a different message from the film. It implied that hacking could got you girls.
Cute girls.
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The territory was changing. More settlers were moving into the online world. ARPANET was morphing into the Internet, and the popularity of bulletin-board systems exploded. In Milwaukee a group of hackers calling themselves the 414's (their area code.
Duh.) broke into systems at institutions ranging from the Los Alamos Laboratories to Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Keftering Cancer Center. Then the cops put the arm on them.
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