[Noisebridge-discuss] history of hacking on Youtube

[jim]

   At the West Coast Computer Faire in the late 
1970s, Bill Gates purportedly gave a talk in which 
he said "we do the work, why shouldn't we get the 
money?" 
   Did you encounter anything re that story?



On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 13:09 -0700, travis
+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org wrote:
> Digging through old email (from 2007) in my TODO folder and found
> this.  Thought it might be of interest to people, since it seems that
> hackerspaces are doing something similar to the early computer clubs,
> etc.
> 
> I wonder... does Noisebridge keep mailing list archives around?  One
> day an historian will likely be wishing one existed :-) Also, expect
> a documentary; it's inevitable.  Maybe Steven Levy could write a
> paperback on it :-)
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=history+of+hacking&aq=f
> 
> Quoted one of my friends:
> 
> Lot of good historical info on the early phreaking scene, blue boxing, how the
> phreaking crowd and Captain Crunch inspired the creation of the first Apple
> Computer, etc.  I didn't realize how small of a community is was in the
> pre-80's (I got into computers in '81).
> 
> For example, I hadn't known about Bill Gate's early head butting with the
> famous Home Brew Computer Club back in the day over their "free and open
> ways"...  an echo of Microsoft's stance today against open source and the
> free/libre information ethos.
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