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Hacker interview – Gummo [video]

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I recommend watching the other video's on the channel as well. This hacker interview is the odd one out, most other video's are interviews with drug addicts and prostitutes living on Skid Row LA about their life story. Very interesting and haunting.

I've always been curious about Gummo and his backstory. Thank you for posting this.

“I discovered computers”, the title of this submission, is uttered very early on in this video. I feel the phrase to be terribly universal in that, at some age, at least, computers provide an antidote to the terrible. Confronted with an obvious and stark lack of power, we are suddenly granted power: the machine does exactly what I say, if I have the patience to learn how to say it. What an incisive and timely tool. What serendipity!

A stick on the ground remains a stick - no staff, no wand, no artifact of thunder - unless urgency presses the insignificant into significance.

Oh. I see the title was changed. :(

Oh yeah, I feel like it was like that for a lot of us.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me... Or thinks I'm a smart ass... Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.

        And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through

the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...

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