Funny guide, different scene.

http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/crackers.html

On C64 the signs of puberty were usage of words like “lamer”, “loser/looser”

Loser vs looser was especially painful. “Haha, we know it’s loser but looser sounds cooler.” A lame cover up, somewhat contradicting the whole meaning.

90% of the scroll texts were about contrived stories of displaying superiority over lamers and losers.

The folks from Finland appeared to be a bit over the top with references to their weight lifting careers to appear like some sort of brutal fighting machine.

Kids back then… ;)

> Also wow Google has completely erased this concept from its search results

For me, it replaces the search with "brick text", but allows you to change to "bricktext" again, at which point it does give the catb.org result.

Google may have, but kagi still shows it prominently

I actually got an angelfire link in my search results a few days ago. Was related to quake 2

oh my god that person wrote "The Art of Unix Programming" I binge read it last week and it was exceptional. What a world. These are the kind of people that I look up to and aspire to be like.

That person (Eric S. Raymond) also wrote "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"[0], a seminal work for the Open Source movement.

[0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

See also, "In the Beginning Was the Command Line", which I seem to recall was also monospace presented in the good ol' days ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co...

Or maybe it was just a plain ol' textfile, I forget.

just came here to say your post makes me feel old. esr was a classic a cool 20 years ago. enjoy!