Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/28/paleohackers.html
…
3 Likes
Now I want to hear about the first person to substitute their own punch card in a Jacquard loom to make it weave a dick pic.
19 Likes
The first cyberattack took place nearly 200 years ago in France
The French have 257 types of cheese, don’t mess with them.
5 Likes
…And the count of Monte Christo was the first fictional hacker :
10 Likes
Thirty years ago, people used Telnet. That’s still as insecure as those French telegraph poles.
4 Likes
I’m eating some of it …
4 Likes
History is so odd and cool.
2 Likes
It was probably the 200 kg guy in Nice.
6 Likes
Now it’s just used by IoT and SCADA devices. 
3 Likes
More recent than that. I think it was already the 21st century when the systems I used as a postdoc stopped allowing telnet and had us move to ssh instead.
3 Likes
clacker-hacker?
2 Likes
GNU Terry Pratchett
2 Likes
Oh, I thought this was going to be about “scientific hooliganism” 
The famous De Gaulle quote 
1 Like
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
