Post 9wRSAF5MZt23tCYZSS by faehnrich@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #9wQf99aadFlcnc0vK4 by thegibson@hackers.town
2020-06-25T03:33:39Z
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People watch hackers and make fun of it, but that really kind of was my friends in 95-97.It wasn’t far off at all.
(DIR) Post #9wQf99qXfwWlb5TfBg by thegibson@hackers.town
2020-06-25T03:35:55Z
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I mean, make it a little gothier...and that was basically us.
(DIR) Post #9wQf9AbgqeF1xJXJg0 by lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com
2020-06-25T03:37:39Z
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@thegibson I knew I liked you for a reason.
(DIR) Post #9wQgMQeWbMxrRIkStk by msh@coales.co
2020-06-25T03:51:29Z
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@thegibson I confess I feel I would've been a Joey...a bit too nerdy and just a bit out of my depth 😂
(DIR) Post #9wQgsE7OjuC5pcPr2u by thegibson@hackers.town
2020-06-25T03:57:12Z
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@msh I know who my joeys were, and honestly, just like in the movie, the were the best skilled... the rest of us were good, and knew how to look cool. But they just jacked in and got it the fuck done.I think any of us could go Joey, but there were always a couple who were always Joey.
(DIR) Post #9wRSAF5MZt23tCYZSS by faehnrich@mastodon.social
2020-06-25T12:47:05Z
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@msh @thegibson Heh, I was the Joey. The younger one that just kinda hung out while the others were on Cleveland Freenet.
(DIR) Post #9wRrHn0LMc25y6u7dI by socketwench@hackers.town
2020-06-25T03:59:32Z
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@thegibson Meanwhile I'm sitting here thinking how utterly fictional it seemed to have two hacker types in the same room and not have it smell of a professional conference. Got "banned" from using the school computers for bypassing their "security" though. They gave up when I came up with a floppy disk that could boot a PowerPC.
(DIR) Post #9wRrHnDSZqWacn2b4q by thegibson@hackers.town
2020-06-25T04:01:46Z
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@socketwench yeah, that is true for the past 15 yrs. or so.I was in denial in HS. I was doing my shit on the side, but not even my closest friends knew what I was getting into, even the two who were into it too. I tried to play dumb with them often, and it worked.
(DIR) Post #9wRrHnORuzJbAsBNCq by erosdiscordia@hackers.town
2020-06-25T06:01:23Z
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@thegibson @socketwench @drwho You guys were so lucky. I didn't have a single IRL hacker friend or place to go. It was all stuff I was doing on the school computers, not knowing what I was doing, in retrospect damn that shenanigans could have gotten me in so much trouble, if I'd looked the part -- instead of some dumb innocent beach rat type that everyone kinda looked past.I guess there's a benefit to looking clueless and innocent. I think I am sort of a perma-Joey.