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Me and a buddy met up with some older dudes in the mall food court after finding a post-it in the back of a 2600 in the bookstore across the street. we were around 15 and they were probably 20 and lying to us about all the stuff they hacked while we mostly lapped it up. must have been pretty hilarious for them. in similar era we would spend lunch break at school huddled around a motorola analog cell phone and listen in to people’s phone calls. it was all unencrypted and you could just enter a service code on the keypad to scan through the channels. Probably got that from 2600 too. I got many a friend free internet by setting up a WRT54G in bridge mode with a directional antenna and leeching off some open hotspot down the block before everything came locked down by default. I found out later my little cousin was doing a similar thing by bringing his laptop over to people’s apartments and WEP cracking the neighbor’s wireless for them.
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yeah I made serious plans to go to NY for the Fifth Hope (the 2600 hacker con) in 2004 as a 22 year old, thankfully I came to my senses and went drinking in Tokyo for 1/3 the money instead.
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yippee cahier posted:I got many a friend free internet by setting up a WRT54G in bridge mode with a directional antenna and leeching off some open hotspot down the block before everything came locked down by default. I found out later my little cousin was doing a similar thing by bringing his laptop over to people’s apartments and WEP cracking the neighbor’s wireless for them. i think i still have the bookmark for the wep cracker on an old device somewhere. those were the days
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Jun 15, 2021 13:05
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wep cracking was so handy for when you moved and your new connection wouldn’t be set up for a week
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tshirthell.com was the only place to buy edgy shirts online at one point
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polyester concept posted:tshirthell.com was the only place to buy edgy shirts online at one point good lord I cannot imagine those shirts aging well. the 2000s were a loving nightmare e: they are still around and it’s as horrifying as you can imagine teen witch fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Jun 15, 2021 |
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teen witch posted:e: they are still around and it’s as horrifying as you can imagine  https://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/love-him-or-hate-him-hitler-killed-a-ton-of-jews
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jeeezus christ
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Jun 15, 2021 17:31
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haha i'm going to put on my `talk nerdy to me` shirt from tshirthell while i post a someecards thing with a nice lady sipping tea and also calling you a stupid oval office!
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Jun 15, 2021 17:32
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teen witch posted:good lord I cannot imagine those shirts aging well. the 2000s were a loving nightmare wonder how many pepes they move in a year
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Jonny 290 posted:someecards hell yeah. I’ve got some epic demotivators to share with you!
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Jonny 290 posted:jeeezus christ  somehow worse, stuck in the same era, and also less teeth because they removed an edgy shooter shirt they used to advertise all the time so this is some of the most cautiously "edgy" crap
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thinkin about 14 year old me wearing that jesus did it for the chicks shirt and dying inside
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and im honestly impressed that tshirt hell both exists and somehow got worse eh, actually, that it still exists maybe i shouldn't be surprised it got worse what with how poo poo's been since 2016 or so
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you've got mail, baby, yeah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxzuzzNy9_4
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SO DEMANDING posted:and im honestly impressed that tshirt hell both exists and somehow got worse unbelievably it seems that sunshine megatron was keeping it together and after he left it went off a cliff.
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gamespy. planet quake. planet hexen. planet ... unreal?? every new game spawning a new planet site
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my stepdads beer posted:gamespy. planet quake. planet hexen. planet ... unreal?? every new game spawning a new planet site I dropped out of school my junior year because I hated engineering and took a job being a systems administrator for the Vanderbilt Vision and Research Center. In my free time I would play a lot of Quake 2 and write about Quake 2. Around '98, GameSpy said, "Do you want to run PlanetQuake?" So I said, "Yeah, OK," and moved to Orange County. I got paid $24,000 a year to write about Quake 2. Back then, the gaming community was pretty different. It was a very small collection of hardcore nerds. It's not like now, where everybody has an Xbox and plays online. You had to be pretty nerdy. It was pretty difficult to play games online and it was all PC-only. Something Awful kind of spawned out of the Quake community. For whatever reason, PlanetQuake, even though it was about Quake, which was just a standard first-person shooter where you kill demons or whatever, had a huge element of goofing off. We both wrote a feature called Mailbag, which was like an old-school newspaper advice column. People would write emails and we would respond with something funny.
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drat, you ran that thing?? what was the company like?
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lowtax bring back cranky steves map reviews
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Progressive JPEG posted:lowtax bring back cranky steves map reviews  no dont
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
uhh this is real, isn't it
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i guess i'm glad that i have no idea what any of those words mean, at least
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PIZZA.BAT posted:i guess i'm glad that i have no idea what any of those words mean, at least "finished" means that something is complete or has ended. idk about the rest though.
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"destroy" means you shouted a lot and then claimed you won
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wonder if he ever regrets dropping out of that engineering degree
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PIZZA.BAT posted:i guess i'm glad that i have no idea what any of those words mean, at least "please give me attention"
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Also that video is 2 and a half hours long
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Jun 16, 2021 14:57
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two and a half is also how many views it will get
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Sweevo posted:two and a half is also how many views it will get
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jesus WEP posted:you either view a video or you don’t, you can’t have half a view to give the appropriate amount of attention, halve your view, then halve it again
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I had no idea how quickly (poorly) running forums can age you
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carry on then posted:to give the appropriate amount of attention, halve your view, then halve it again
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Always good for a laugh but I wanna see more recent numbers
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He's currently down to $178. Graphtreon apparently can't handle creators that hide their number of patrons but not their donation total which is why those graphs are always out of date.
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very concerned by the popularity of lowtax with greenpos
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K4HVD-Q9TJ9-6CRX9-C9G68-RQ2D3
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the imminent huh posted:K4HVD-Q9TJ9-6CRX9-C9G68-RQ2D3 freakin classic
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