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by sox_fan 6836 days ago
Discovering how Phish tapes were being shared through the internet was my first hacker experience. I was 15 when I got into this scene thanks to an AOL account my parents had. This was pre-napster and it was the only way to get a copy of live music that was not available in the record store. Learning about the whole process of taping a show and distributing it with trees of people who made copies of the show for people underneath. A lot of it was social networking since the tapes were sent through the mail, but it was all coordinated over a newsgroup and email.