[glotchimo]

Whenever asked what period I (a proverbial young person, SWE) would go back to if I had a time machine, I always answer with roughly this period. To be alive during those days to see the development of the shoulders I now stand on would be such a treat, as I’m sure anecdotes like these only scratch the surface of all the stories to be told.

That said, if any of you oldheads have links to such things, do share - always curious to learn more about the beige age. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and I’m here for that secondhand.

[CuriousSkeptic]

I think this book captures a good bit of the spirit

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984598.Masters_of_Decept...

[jhbadger]

Eh, while the media seemed to be into "hackers" in the sense of people breaking into systems (and either messing them up or just to do it for bragging rights), that wasn't what most of us were into -- instead we were interested in writing software to get the most of the hardware we had (and used "hacker" in the old-school sense of expert coders).

[singleshot_]

Steven levy, “hackers: heroes of the computer revolution” probably a bit more your tune, maybe.

[jhbadger]

Yes, I've read that.