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The coolness peaked before the “the network is the computer” phase, IMO. Late 80s vs mid 90s.

This was also back when you could walk into the library and get the email credentials of a random professor and then use it to hide behind when you took down a network of another in state university because an engineering professor didn't think computer science majors were as smart as he was.

Yeah, man, good times.

My buddy got a visit from the feds and lost his computer lab access for a semester.

I still giggle when I tell that story.

> I still giggle when I tell that story.

Not sure why anyone would think that stealing someone else's data and attacking a network is funny. The only difference between then and now is that now you would get a criminal record for that. It was as morally wrong to do that back then as it is now.

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