@Viss@mastodon.social I love all the little ascii art silliness

@dwardoric I think using any social media inevitably shifts you, even slowly, into the image on the right!

@c3manu@chaos.social I was in America for y2k and people were panic buying like I’ve never seen before, cans of food, non perishable anything edible and giant plastic, sealed waterproof tubs to keep it all in, was very surreal.

@c3manu@chaos.social I feel like I’m going to be shouting at the screen a lot because while there was hysteria the y2k bug was a real serious problem!

@rohad@sciences.social I had to download the trailer, edit it a little for brevity and make this gif because it was just too good

Essentially this guy was infecting people’s systems with a remote access trojan and then using their systems to post bomb threats on 2chan, various people who had been infected got arrested. I’m writing a blog about it all now.

@kagan@wandering.shop oh I like to think the chimp is leading the way

@brhfl@digipres.club bit pricier than what I was expecting but interesting, thanks!

@drakenblackknight@mastodon.online that was one of my first ideas, but I’m wondering about newer options too

@jacqueline@chaos.social @hermlon@yuustan.space oh I’m into it, thanks for the heads up

@laurens Thank you! I came across a lot of articles when looking through a US newspaper archive for news on hackers from 1999 and just kept digging, it is fascinating because it was like a template for conflicts that came after.