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Do you remember Astalavista search engine?

submitted by deleted to Mildlyinfuriating 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 14:50:41 ago (+33/-1)     (Mildlyinfuriating)

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[ - ] Paradoxical003 7 points 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 17:20:57 ago (+7/-0)

Altavista?

[ - ] WanderingToast 5 points 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 18:50:54 ago (+5/-0)

Astalavista.box.sk was a l337 haxxor site for security exploits, hacks, cracks and warez. You could get security bypass programs and viruses etc there too .

Part of the .box network, the central hub of which was neworder.box.sk

During this time I was really into phreaking, so spent quite a bit of time on mobile.box.sk

This was back in the green screen mobile days where phones had 'secret codes'

Nokia phones had 2 really useful ones. 1 would half the bit rate, extending battery life. The other would double the bit rate, giving better call quality.

Lots of ways to get free calls from landlines, payphones and cocots - not to mention a useful way to make fully untraceable calls (also for free)

I remember I had the £1 coin bleep codes on a mini dictaphone and felt truly l337 using them to get free calls from payphones

Edit to add: I wouldn't suggest visiting unless you trust your antivirus and firewall

Think they had a connection with the cult of the dead cow too

[ - ] Clubberlang 2 points 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 21:44:19 ago (+2/-0)

Scrpt kidz

[ - ] ruck_feddit 2 points 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 19:20:34 ago (+2/-0)

I second everything you've said. This was a better time.

@Paradoxical003

[ - ] ToNigIsToNog 1 point 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 22:23:49 ago (+1/-0)

the best script kiddie exploit ever has been and will be smurf. here, let me hose your t3 with my dialup.

[ - ] MichaelStewart 0 points 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 23:02:00 ago (+0/-0)

I wish I was around during those days. What a time to be alive. Anyone got any decent documentaries they'd like to suggest to give me a rundown?

[ - ] ToNigIsToNog 1 point 3.4 yearsJan 12, 2022 18:41:46 ago (+1/-0)

it was a time when technology was in the hands of many, and knowledge in the hands of few. no documentaries I'm aware of from that period. this was when hacking was child's play. you could use dig for example to completely enumerate a company's dns. phishing or spear phishing were unknown. no SOCs or IDS anywhere. it was the "wild west" of the internet. good times. this is back before jewtube was owned by jewgle and they'd said every watcher (no subscribers or channels at the time, just videos) could contribute 10k a year and they'd still shut down from operations costs.

this is years after teardrop 7, which was one of the biggest crushers when it hit, almost 30 years ago. it killed everything. death on flaxon wings!

[ - ] MichaelStewart 0 points 3.4 yearsJan 12, 2022 18:45:58 ago (+0/-0)

Teardrop 7? Never heard of it

[ - ] natehiggers 3 points 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 14:52:27 ago (+3/-0)*

Didn't Cuckerberg steal the idea from his roommate at Harvard.

[ - ] 1234567890 10 points 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 15:05:37 ago (+10/-0)

that is the story, however, DARPA "Lifelog" went offline the day Facebook came online.

[ - ] Clubberlang 2 points 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 21:44:50 ago (+2/-0)

Cohensidence?

[ - ] bonghits4jeebus 1 point 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 19:32:21 ago (+1/-0)

To me "this thing but online" isn't an idea significant enough that it can be stolen. Berg deserves credit/blame for everything that happens afterward. It's like when a white guy writes all the code and a negress takes credit. We give all the credit to the white guy right?

And I'm pretty sure it was Harvard

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 21:43:43 ago (+1/-0)

Bittorent was probably the last true idea envisioned by the internets founding inventors

[ - ] Broc_Liath 1 point 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 19:53:35 ago (+1/-0)

The combination of patents and "standards" cannot be overstated. As a small example microsoft patented FAT32 file storage, then managed to shove it into every file storage product as a standard, so now every time you buy a USB key you're paying royalties to Gates.

If patents died tomorrow there would be a golden age of technology.

[ - ] deleted 1 point 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 17:53:12 ago (+1/-0)

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[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 21:46:00 ago (+0/-0)

~~People~~ +narcissists didn't realize they wanted social media until MySpace and Facebook came and made it "exclusive".

[ - ] calx 1 point 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 16:17:56 ago (+1/-0)

I miss Netscape.

[ - ] Spaceman84 1 point 3.5 yearsJan 2, 2022 19:24:40 ago (+1/-0)

I miss Mosaic.

[ - ] MuricaPersonified 0 points 3.5 yearsJan 3, 2022 08:16:52 ago (+0/-0)

I miss Compuser- no, no I actually don't.

[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 3.5 yearsJan 3, 2022 00:53:05 ago (+0/-0)

This is exactly right. There are two kinds of workers in society, people who directly produce useable goods and services and people who deal in information—essentially bureacrats. Bureacrats’ work product is much more subjective in value than the traditional worker. The bureacracy is pure overhead in a society— you can’t eat what it makes or live in it. The whole purpose of the bureacracy is to effectively manage wealth producers’ interactions to increase the efficiency of a society, through cultural and technical information.

But when that bureacracy proves to be harmful to efficiency, and lives parasitically off of useful workers, its time to burn that bureacracy down. Jews are a race of bureacrats that have been living off of other people for thousands of years. European elites have also gained some nasty behavioral traits towards this end. The scheme is to manipulate as system of rules to live off of rule followers, to sow disinformation. The bureacracies of corporations and their allies in the public sector are really the same creature. They are parasites that use financial, legal, political, and moral misinformation to suck the life blood out of society. They have no added value. They are superfluous. If all the billionaires on the planet and their families were murdered and their wealth was deleted from the economy, we would all be much better off.

What’s more, they are disincentivizing the work of the average worker, who knows that the harder they work the more they get stolen from.