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> crush as a young teenager was Burn

Who hadn't?

I was a young adult back then, but the sense of adventure in the movie brought my memories of BBSs and creative misuse of telephone lines, X.400 networks, and dial-out modems. Fun times.

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Hackers inspired me to start digging around on my FreeBSD laptop and learn how to setup a bitmap image as boot splash, just like the kids in the movie all had their own custom boot image.

Just a few years later I dropped out of school and started my career, haven't looked back since.

My first boss who gave me my first chance, and my 2nd job through referral, he dropped out of 7th grade to start his own business. He was once interrogated by police, and they had brought in some experts from a big ISP, and these "experts" had no idea what he was talking about. :D

Wild years...

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> You’re in the butter zone now, baby!

I've seen the movie countless times. It was only last year that I learned it was "butter zone" and not "border zone". And I never understood why Nikon called it "border zone" as it made no sense in context. But I also had never heard the term "butter zone". So there you go.

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For me that was War Games that got me into this world and career. Always felt like I owe Broderick a Raspberry Pie or something
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The use of the soda can pull tab to ground the receiver to get a dial tone was my moment as I was a noob phreaker well before being a hacker. How many kids watching that movie would even know what was happening today? Would they even know what he picks up off the ground let alone the actual phreaking
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Let alone the receiver. Or the concept of the pay phone as a whole.
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We would have been good friends then. My and my friend group watched it so many times.
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Yeah, me too. And I gobbled up the Phreak culture from my danish small town life, dreaming of late eighties AT&T escapades with my crew of cool street kids… RISC is good.
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- I'm Crash Override. - You're the moron that's been invading my turf?!
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"im a real wild child i'm a wild one, im a wild one!!"
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aaaah! joey! joey! thank you everybody!
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"I'm not an addict. Can I get some more coffee?"
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"Check this out guys, this is insanely great, it's got a 28.8 BPS modem!"
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