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FROM HACKERS TO YUPPIES
Once upon a time in a land far,far away there was a strange place populated
by crazed, uncombed headed people called hackers and crackers. The hackers
were crackers and the crackers were hackers. They hacked into other
computers - often just snooping but sometimes doing real damage. Then
various networks coalesced (see History of the .net - this mag) and the
worldwide Internet was born. The hackers were left behind as the computer
Yuppies took over the scene and instead of talking compu-gibberish
started downloading the latest stock quotations instead.
Now the CompuYuppies are in control. The Internet is geared up to serving
them and the educational establishments, whilst the chitter-chatter of
electronic mail covers every subject under the sun rather than just which
group as just cracked what game and can I download Super Streetfighter
Turbo Challenge XXI and what do you need in exchange....
But even now the the ever evolving world of the Web, the times are changing
as the media and the general public more and more, at the moment at business
but soon for leisure too use the .net. Videos and console games will be
downloaded legally from it, direct onto you composite,comprehensive
all-purpose home entertainment system...
...ah,the shape of things to come.
WEZ