Still amazes me that back in the 70's my friends and I used to ride our bikes out to Bell Labs to use their PDP-10's, and the folks that worked there never batted an eye as we played Empire.
Can't imagine any company allowing something like that today, but I can say that early exposure really fueled my interest in computers. #unix #computers #belllaboratories
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@bpepple Times have changed and in many ways, not for the better... Its all fear its everywhere and has shaped everything about us. Most employees wouldnt care and would love for kids to come to their work and play with their tools, but fear of loosing their job, fear they would hack something or break something... fear makes it so no one would let that fly these days.
@bpepple I'm not sure i disagree.. When I was around back then in the early days of computers the hacking scene was just as strong. its just that it wasnt amplified by the media so the fear wasnt there. But I wouldnt say the actual risk of it happening was any less back then honestly.
@freemo Things are a bit different now. Back then Unix was relatively new (<10 years old), and the number of people using it was relatively low. In addition, the whole concept of 'black hat hacking' wasn't terribly prevalent. This was all pre-'Wargames' where hacking became more publicly known.
Nowadays, I think you'd have to be fairly crazy to allow access to your internal systems to anyone that came off the street.