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Sounds like we all grew up and most of us got day jobs.

EDIT: That sounds more dismissive than I meant. The post is a great read, I miss the old days too.

Well, it's a combination of that and of the amount of content respective groups generate - hackers don't have self-indulgent blogs, facebook pages, or youtube channels, and they never did. All that might have changed are the population and diversity if the internet population.

Absolutely. The smartest hackers I know don't even have something as self-indulgent as a public web site.

In my experience, hackers have always been the quiet type. Now some loud ones have changed what it means to be a hacker through popularity.

On the other hand, by dint of being so loud, they've given even the quiet hackers some well-deserved recognition. Intellectualism has too long been shunned in the main stream. It's finally become sort of (dare I say it?) cool to be a hacker.

Thus, their volume has contributed some social capital to us.

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