Did anyone want to be a hacker as a kid?

[MoparOrNoCar]

I remember wanting to become a hacker and go searching through mainframes for confidential information.

Then I looked up how to do it on Lycos and it was just these boring programs that I had no idea how to use. I thought the software was going to be a portal where I could look at what the people were doing on their computers in real time. Wound up getting a virus just by merely looking into it. Go figure.

 

[lsa]

No. Internet did not exist as we know it when I was a kid.

 

[Cole train]

Fuck no didnt have computer

 

[Henry Swanson]

Not so much a hacker but in the Summer of 91 I went to see T2 in theatre. The scene where John Connor uses that thing to take money out of an atm blew my mind.

 

[Provocateur]

The movie made me want to.

 

[Sonny Qc]

I wanted to be a jet fighter pilot when I was a kid tbh.

Learned that not even a few hundreds were needed in Canada,
+ my eyesight disqualified me for this job....

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

I remember wanting to become a hacker and go searching through mainframes for confidential information.

Then I looked up how to do it on Lycos and it was just these boring programs that I had no idea how to use. I thought the software was going to be a portal where I could look at what the people were doing on their computers in real time. Wound up getting a virus just by merely looking into it. Go figure.

You should have searched for porn instead, would have been more enlightened.

 

[MoparOrNoCar]

You should have searched for porn instead, would have been more enlightened.

I did but man it took like 5 minutes just for Jenny McCarthy's boob to load.

 

[FourofAkind]

I wanted to be a jet fighter pilot when I was a kid tbh.

Learned that not even a few hundreds were needed in Canada,
+ my eyesight disqualified me for this job....

Go get some Lasik and try again....you got this. Canada needs you.

 

[Sonny Qc]

Go get some Lasik and try again....you got this. Canada needs you.

34, too late for me

 

[FourofAkind]

34, too late for me

Nah, you can get an age waiver i'm sure.

 

[Dream Evil]

Not so much a hacker but in the Summer of 91 I went to see T2 in theatre. The scene where John Connor uses that thing to take money out of an atm blew my mind.

The thing he used to hack the ATM was an Atari device of some kind.....a Lynx, maybe? Always thought that was interesting product placement in 1991 since Atari was getting blown away by Nintendo/Sega in those days.

 

[Diogenes of Sinope]

Remember when UFC’s website got hacked back in 2011 or so?

 

[Zinger]

To be honest I didn't even think about what I wanted to become until I got my highschool diploma.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

In late 90's hacking was portrayed as pretty cool in movies. So yeah I thought it would be cool.

 

[Henry Swanson]

The thing he used to hack the ATM was an Atari device of some kind.....a Lynx, maybe? Always thought that was interesting product placement in 1991 since Atari was getting blown away by Nintendo/Sega in those days.

For some reason I thought it was Casio but lynx rings a bell. Let me see if I can find it.

edit. You were right my friend. It was Atari.

 

[Herwald]

Dream job, for sure.

 

[hohner]

Not me.

 

[MoparOrNoCar]

Any old farts use a Cap'n Crunch whistle to make free phone calls back in the day?

 

[Henry Swanson]

Any old farts use a Cap'n Crunch whistle to make free phone calls back in the day?

I was rocking the fancy shit.