{"id":274,"date":"2010-05-03T23:20:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T22:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/z303.org\/?p=274"},"modified":"2010-05-03T23:20:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T22:20:50","slug":"european-hacker-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"European Hacker Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just started a new Open University course<\/a>, most of the first few weeks is about the history of open source, mostly the book ‘Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution<\/a>‘. Which was a nice refresher on open source even if its a little dated now but I do have to take issue with ESR<\/a>‘s essay, A Brief History of Hackerdom<\/a>, saying Europe had no equivalent culture to the Berkeley<\/a>\/MIT<\/a>\/Stanford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Europe didn’t have the cheap local phone calls, so BBS<\/a>‘s took longer to be come popular (which are documented in Jason Scott<\/a>‘s great series<\/a>) but I would say the demoscene<\/a> and the cracker culture<\/a> it grew out of was our starting point. Lots of (especially) game<\/a> developers<\/a> got their start in the scene and provided that same focus mostly around the Amiga<\/a>. Giving european hackers culture a different style and shape.<\/p>\n

Still little known outside graphics geeks<\/a> and old 16bit people, as hacker culture has become more global, overshadowed by the current billion dollar Silicon Valley<\/a> startup’s, the demoscene<\/a> is still healthy and producing<\/a> some<\/a> wonderful<\/a> art<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just started a new Open University course, most of the first few weeks is about the history of open source, mostly the book ‘Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution‘. Which was a nice refresher on open source even if its a little dated now but I do have to take issue with …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","without-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Zoe","author_link":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}