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We were more innocent at that time. I miss that.

They were good times. All the much better because we were convinced they would last.

Not really. If I recall correctly, hackers like Phiber Optik and Acid Phreak were thinking Barlow was a corporate spy/shill. And in response published Barlow's credit record.

We should have seen through the optimism of the time. Humans are... messy.

It's funny; I taught both of these in a literature class for Korean exchange students. (I paired the Declaration with Barlow's song Estimated Prophet.) Fun topic to cover, but I think the students were too cool to feel like cyberspace was something really important to them.

Amazing.