I was recently reading up on the great Phreaking revolution, along with the great Hacking revolution and realized. I missed it. It was one of the biggest things out there, nothing can ever impact computers and the way they're built like it did, and I missed it. Just like the great rock and roll revolution, and the great gaming revolution of truly wonderful games, I missed it. It's making me feel somewhat depressed. I was just wondering if anyone ever felt the same way, or maybe were nostalgic for those times for those of you that are older in this crowd.

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This generation sucks.

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Yep. All the fun times are gone. I missed the 80's.. My parents will never be forgiven for that.. (Ok, so maybe they will.)

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RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

uh . . .

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I just incessantly feel like I missed out on something great... Hacking in its glory days was wonderful, almost poetic, and it had a wonderful community. Information gained you respect. Now...it's just OMFG I R00TED THAT SERVER. No style, no grace, no finesse...

/sigh

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So, you think you could have been some sort of super hacker or something? Whatever, dude.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

I remember playing Space Invaders at the roller rink. Asteroids, Missle Command and Pac Man. I was there when they all came out.

The 80's? That was one of the worst decades. We're known as generation x 'cause they have no idea what to name us after. There was nothing.

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Nonononono! I don't wanna be a l33t hax0r, I wanted to be a part of the computer revolution. The hackers of yesterday made the computers of today. But I guess for some people it may be hard to understand :/

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Ah, the days of phone phreaking, the blue box, Kevin Mitnick.. Man I wish I was a teenager in the 80's.

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Being the hopeless optomist, I tend not to want to live in the past. That's just me though.

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*sniff* Someone knows. Captain Crunch, Joe the Whistler...just to be a part of that area I would have felt priveleged. great story about it here http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/JOLLYROGER/150.jrc A long read, about an hour by my watch, prolly 30 min for some of you, but it's a good one on the subject. It's what brought my nostalgic feeling back .

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I'm quite happy that I only had to live 5 years of my life in the 80s and can only remember 2 of them. The only thing that I can really remember is the end of the USSR, in Kindergarten the biggest country in the world was the USSR, 1st grade it was Russia. And then there was the Gulf War, which I can still remember watching news footage on tv, but that wasnt in the 80s... so....

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Dangit...then I don't remember the 80's.
Born in 85...I can't remember a thing.


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I'm going to go out and do stuff, like besides work. Call up ben, hang out. Maybe see the last samurai, go skydiving, whatever.
Get back into the gym...
I want to do stuff that prevents me from playin video games so I can only play them a few hours a day, basically.
(Formally Veger, who died when he lost his e-mail adress, and his password. Veeger still looks for his old pass...)

Dude, there are still revolutions to be had. The Open Source revolution, for example. No sense dreaming about the past, look to the future.

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Fight the future.

Yah, I concur with you GBK, but it was 1) Nostalgia...of some sort... and 2) Me venting. When it's all done though, I realize things are still to be made...'s not over yet

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I miss 1991-1993 for some reason. I can't remember

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So if the people of the 80s were Gen-X, what about the 90s? I don't think i've ever heard a name for them/us.

Slackers is one term I've heard.

Generation-Y. It's alphabetical. Sadly, I missed the cutoff by a year and am stuck as a Gen-Y baby

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So after Generation Z, is it Generation 1, Generation A1, or Generation AA?

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hehe... generation A-1... what more could you ask for, than to be a member of generation A-1

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Do you have stairs in your house?

Sure, the computer revolution is great and all, but just wait until nanotechnology comes...

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Wasn't it the 70s generation that was generation "Y"? As in generation "Why?" And I've heard of the '00s generation being called generation "d", for "digital". But I never have heard of anything of us children of the 90s.

I think this goes back pretty far... there was the "Greatest Generation" who fought in WWII. And then the Baby Boomers (who were born when the Greatest Generation came home from the war and... well...) would have been raised in the sixties or so. Not sure about the fifties, though.

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yeah, i want a tv/phone/radio/watch thing put in my wrist!

anyone who's read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy knows what I'm talking about


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