[Infowarrior] - more on....Web Kids' manifesto

[Richard Forno]

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> If you find this reply worthy, please attribute to "CB"
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> Hello.
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> I'm a tweener.  People try to shoehorn me into the baby boom, but I'm between Buffalo
> Springfield and Nirvana.  I'm the prototype for all you "Web Kids."  We were the
> shock troops for the BBS and Usenet.  We're the ones the greybeards who invented all this
> Internet shit trained.  We're the ones you go to when it breaks, and we fix it and make it
> better.
> 
> We got busted hacking and phreaking first, before your LOIC was even written.
> 
> We grok ARP, ICMP, FTP, GRE, RIP, HTTP 1.0 and understand bandwidth delay product
> implications like the  Web Kids never will, and never got ribbons for participation.
> Well, maybe "War Games" was our ribbon, but it was too fantastic....
> 
> So, Web Kids, get fsck'ng over yourselves.  Grow a bullshit detector (hint--if you think
> any hits for that string on the first page of Google results is correct, you probably
> don't have an adequate one) and get out there and DO SOMETHING.  Quit Occupying,
> opining, and whining and DO SOMETHING.  Make your country a better and fairer place to
> live.  Yes, you'll have to get involved in the rough and tumble of politics, make enemies,
> and split friendships.  Life sometimes hurts more than unfriending.
> 
> Note: If you are a resident of an "Arab Spring" country and are or have actively been
> involved in protests, demonstrations, or revolutions you have fsck'ng DONE SOMETHING and
> I sincerely hope you find your way through the chaos to peace and prosperity.
>