How about a nice Delta I came across from yesterday...😉😎
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Damn I would have loved to be one of your friends.
My circle of friends consist of people following what I was doing but they didn't know any better on computer terminology. They just did what I told them to do but I wasn't keen enough to go beyond going on IRC or AOL chat rooms back then.
Later on in life, I learned about 2600, Kevin Mitnick, Cap'n Crunch whistle and many more. Guess I wasn't as adventurous as you guys were back then.
Honestly it was a pretty - aware thing on our end. We had this sense that we could get ahead of even a lot of security “experts” since everything was in its infancy. Legit a lot of it spawned from our schools having local token ring networks so we figured out ways to mess with each other in class - grew from there. At least as far as network hacking. To be fair back then IRC was amazingly entertaining and we programmed bots left and right to manage our rooms and file serving. Hell I still maintain an IRC BOT named iGor that will do random funny shit like call anyone that mentions a color racist.
We kinda did everything. We met a lot of other kids on IRC and friended them in real life. I still remember my first FBI agent in there. First door knocks. FBI agent told me like 90% of the kids they talked to had ADD / ADHD 😅 “they say you kids Don’t pay attention - it’s bullshit - you just pay attention to everything at the same time and people can’t keep up. How the hell you gona hack this PBX and still do your homework and play baseball?”
Yeah it was kinda hard to trust anyone through IRC despite setting up a relationship with them of some sort. Like I said, I guess I wasn't as adventurous as I should be back then. Maybe part of it is due to me being deaf -- I couldn't establish a sense of awareness that I can do something without getting caught or the like. I've always played it cautious for a long time, again due to my deafness.
Plus the friends I had were mostly deaf kids and I had some hearing kids but they don't know much about computers. They were just interested in doing sports and extracurricular stuff. I was too, but I still liked doing computer stuff but didn't meet anyone who shared the same interest in computers as I did until I got into college.
Oh we would have had a blast then and been fast friends. My friend Walter was almost totally deaf & it was never a thing. I actually really preferred hanging out with him a lot of the time because he didn’t want to loaf around playing video games as much as everyone else. I just never could get into that. I would rather play with a paper clip for an hour. 😅