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anyone old enough to remember this proto-meme |
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kevin mitnick, yeh... black n orange gif... |
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2600 magazine sent me a free Free Kevin sticker one month. i'm not sure what happened to it |
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fun fact ~ the editor of 2600, Emmanuel Goldstein, was a consultant for the movie Hackers (1995). he was written in as "Cereal Killer," portrayed by a moderately famous actor. in the scene where he's "trashing classes" the teacher asks his name, and he says... "uh... emmanuel godstein, sir?" i saw Hackers in the theater when i was 9 for a friend's birthday party and it was the first time in my life i'd heard prodigy, underworld, etc. |
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his parents missed woodstock, and he's been making up for it ever since |
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, cowgirl prodigy, one love (edit) orbital, haclyon and on and on and more. just a kid in a movie theater; never heard any of these. blew me away |
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i remember going to sam goody to try and buy more of this "electronic music." i wound up with a d&b compilation that was really shit, and a copy of radiohead's "ok computer" which i bought because it had "computer" in the title but it wasn't what i wanted at all; i wanted more prodigy and underworld it wasn't until i could pirate mp3s, i heard fatboy slim on the radio, rockafella skank was one of the first mp3s i ever pirated |
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leftfield - open up prodigy - voodoo people simon boswell's contributions are also superb |
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i can't remember where i first heard underworld, i wasn't a big fan until born slippy nuxx on the trainspotting soundtrack. big influence on my early musical taste, i hadn't even considered long-form instrumental workouts like primal scream's dubby track of the a possibility before then. oh i tell a lie, i liked my mum's tangerine dream vinyl too. whatevs. prodigy i had fire and everybody in the place on tape when i was 6 or so mitnick though, i knew about from a book called cyberpunk by john markoff and katie something. borrowed it from the library over and over and over... i thought kevin was too cool for school man, i wanted to be a naughty black hat too |
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the book i read over and over as ~lad~ was Hackers: Heroes of The Computer Revolution, by Stephen Levy. cannot recommend a book more highly; it will be particularly special to anyone who remembers computers before the 90s. cannot underscore, though -- i loved celtic music, beatles, beach boys a capella , etc. -- but, i had never freaking heard prodigy, underworld, or orbital, and suddenly i got it all in 107 minutes. i remember being pretty fired-up afterwards |
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i've never seen hackers to this day... i guess i should rectify that. same with the book you recommend, i've seen it mentioned before but never got around to it also, orbital... i was blown away by the video for the box, devoured everything i could get my hands on shortly afterwards. was probably around the same time as the trainspotting ost but i forget which came first. saw them live back in 2001, they gave me mild tinnitus but i consider it worth it |
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"Free Kevin" was basically the Gamergate of the 90s—an ostentatious display of white male fragility. Obviously I'm not a fan |
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