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Comment by debo_ | Hacker News Reader

This feels like it would have been edgy and cool 30 years ago.

I don't know if you're talking about the design or content. But on design... So Cult of the Dead Cow has literally been around for 40 years.

And this is what their "pages" looked like before the web, when ascii on TTY was all you had.

Ironically, however, the first actual web page of theirs IA has, in 1998, does _not_ look like this, they didn't actually think at that point it would be edgy and cool to make the brand new web look like an ASCII tty.

https://web.archive.org/web/19980209125729/http://cultdeadco...

It actually wasn't until 2019 they decided it would be maybe edgy and cool to make their webpage look like an ascii tty from 1990.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190530041326/https://cultdeadc...

Not the page design, the method itself. "Bovine mother?" Come on.

The CDC was formed at an actual cow slaughterhouse. Know your history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow

Yes, I got it, thanks.

I remember reading the text files section of cDc's page back in the 90's. There was some sick and twisted stuff in that collection. Thanks for the flashbacks?

FYI: Cult of the Dead Cow is a hacker group that has been around since the 80s. Hell a number of members actually have testified in congress before (i.e. the CdC members that were also part of L0pht).

one of them went beyond testifying in congress and just became a politician

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beto_O%27Rourke

Holy crap, that is a surprising connection between two names I individually knew in a social graph.

Oh damn I didn't even connect that O'Rourke was Psychedelic Warlord.

> L0pht

Oh man, that reminds me of NTLM passwords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0phtCrack

Especially to those of us who were edgy and cool 30 years ago.

What have you done lately?

Quite a lot, thank you!

edgy!

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