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'##::::'##:::'#####:::'########: VIVA LA REVOLUCION! CERDO DEL CAPITALISTA!!
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##:::: ##:'##:::: ##: ##::::::: THE HELOTS OF ECSTASY PRESS RELEASE #373 !!
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#########: ##:::: ##: ######::: ZIEGO VUANTAR SHALL BE MUCH VICTORIOUS! !!
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##:::: ##:. ##:: ##:: ##::::::: "Geeks With Big Dicks" !!
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##:::: ##::. #####::: ########: by -> Darwin !!
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..:::::..::::.....::::........:: 12/22/98 !!
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!!========================================================================!!
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Hey, it's your friendly neighborhood computer underground type
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character with an article for your consideration. I'm Darwin (NOT MY
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REAL NAME), a computer geek who has been wasting his time on these
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stupid machines for most of my life. I started out on the TRS-80 model
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II, and I'm typing this article on my 486/120. What happened between is
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the sort of stuff that every other article in this 'zine is about.
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Actually, it's what this article is about, too, but not really in the
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way that you're probably expecting. What I've experienced in the last
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13 years on the computer and especially the last 5 years with my modem
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is loosely referred to as "the computer underground". From the text
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scene to the hack scene, to the warez scene, to the art scene, I've
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dabbled in just about every computer scene there is. I've noticed
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something that I think is pretty important, or interesting, anyway.
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Essentially, it's that any computer underground scene comes down to a
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bunch of weird geeks who want to prove how big their dick is.
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Now, I know what you're thinking.
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"Dick? He didn't mention the pr0n scene!"
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I'm not talking about .GIF dicks, or any real kind of sexual
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organ. What I'm talking about is the male ego, the 'I'm better than
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you' attitude, the 'my dick is bigger than yours' attitude. Why am I
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not mentioning females? Well, honestly, they're statistically
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insignificant in the computer underground. Parents don't push
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computers on their female children as much as boys, not to mention
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cultural taboos against technical or smart females. Back to the point
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at hand.
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Take my local text scene. In RICUS magazine, "Robin Hood" (NOT
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HIS REAL HANDLE) wrote info about how to hack Fidonets, the bust of
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local freaks, et cetera. Pretty tame stuff, but far-out for the kind
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of kid who is used to Wildcat bbses, and Shareware crap like that.
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After RICUS hit the local scene, we had scores of copycats, although
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none of them had any really useful information in them like RICUS did.
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People called The Ministry of Knowledge (TMoK) to peruse the huge
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masses of text files, and people jumped on the bandwagon. Local guys
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competed to get text from Ripco, Demon Roach Underground, The Works,
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The Floating Pancreas, all the major text boards. People hoarded cDc
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and uXu text files and started trying to write "CRAZZY SCHTUPH". The
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RICUS folks spawned S0NS 0F LIBERTY (S0L) which was pretty decent, for
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a while. The people who wrote for this group were literate and
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knowledgeable. Of course, they got the 'glory' in the local scene,
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and others wanted a chunk of the action. A bunch of lame-ass groups
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sprung up, saying idiotic things for 4 issues and then dying. Mostly,
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they were bad-mouthing people who nobody had ever heard about and
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jabbering about hacking telegard. Total crap. Anyway, my point here
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is pretty obvious. The Text scene was established as a permanent
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entity. Those who had the most text files and wrote the most for the
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text magazines were the most respected. Instead of being some
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pimply-faced 95-pound weakling, they were big shots, they got the
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glory, they had the biggest dick.
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People had been pirating software for years, but the
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proliferation of the modem really helped people along. Instead of copy
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parties or borrowing your friends disks, you just dial up your local
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wares board. You log in, you see some amazing ANSI art and then you
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download your cracked copy of Police Quest. Could there be anything
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better? Well, some of these boards want you to upload, so what can you
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do? Either you can call long distance to try to find some other games
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to put up there, or you can do ANSIs for the system. The people from the
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text scene who wanted games ended up either as warez traders or art
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scene freaks. Eventually, some time in 92 or 93, the art people finally
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told the wares guys to fuck off and started charging for ANSIs. This,
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in my opinion, is completely retarded. There should be competition to
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do an ANSI for a big wares group. I mean, Christ, people will see your
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logo everytime they download a game! Anyway, the wares scene showed up,
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accompanied by the art scene. People make their names bigger, trying to
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be the best artist, run the biggest board, be in the best groups,
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whatever. Again, both of these scene exist for the sole purpose of
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boosting the ego of a antisocial computer addict.
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So, for the people who like to take apart shit and "BOMB VEGAS
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FIRSTTT" (i.e. -- people who saw 'Wargames') started hacking computers.
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Doing crazy stuff like scanning #s for sys75s, UNIX dialup boxes, and
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finally jumping on the net and haqing up the Pentagon and the Kremlin.
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Anyway, these people wrote their own text files about hacking, hung out
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on bridges, and just basically spent a lot of time on their computers.
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We have PHRACK, 2600, CuD, all dedicated to explaining exactly how to
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get stuff without paying it. The better you could hack, the cooler you
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were, the more people respected your name. Urville from the Legion of
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Doom got tons of props, despite the fact that he's not the world's most
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interesting guy (I've met him). Anyway we see here (as in the wares
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scene) the second reason for the computer underground. Not only are
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these people trying to prove their masculinity, they are trying to get
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something that they are not allowed to have.
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Does this sound familiar to anyone? It should.
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Anyone who has been to High School in America understands all of
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these trends without even knowing it. We have the jocks (low-tech), the
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nerds (hi-tech), the punks (lowest-tech), etc, etc... but they're all
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trying to be the best at what they are. They're all trying to get
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booty, get into the best colleges, get the nicest cars, get drunk, get
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in fights, whatever. They're rebelling against their parents and doing
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it in whatever way they happen to prefer. The big guys play football,
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the brainy anti-social types hack, trade wares, do ANSIs, write text
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files, or whatever.
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People in all of the computer underground's scenes like to diss
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the people in the other scenes. Wares guys don't like text files,
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hackers don't like anyone, text guys don't like wares guys, and so on
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so forth. I have to say that I think that this is completely
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counterproductive, and the fragmented nature of the underground aids in
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its assimilation into mainstream culture. We, as computer geeks (that
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is, people who spend tons of times fooling around with a machine), are
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by our nature anti-social (not spending tons of time fooling around with
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people). If we are to hold strong against those we universally despise:
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Consumers, Jocks, Yuppies, in other words "THE COMPLACENT MULTITUDE",
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then we have to put this crap aside. Wares guys, make friends with your
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software! Hack guys, make friends with your accounts! Text guys, make
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friends with crazy shit! Art guys, draw an ansi for free for some hacker
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or wares guy or whatever! If you're going to waste your time on these
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damn machines...
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Do it for the sake of the greater purpose --
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"The Right To Be Antisocial as Hell and Still Make Friends and
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Have Fun." (If I could put it in 10 foot letters on my roof, god knows
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I would.)
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!!========================================================================!!
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!! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! #373 - WRITTEN BY: DARWIN - 12/22/98 !!
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