Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
2010
[1980] Usenet is born, networking UNIX machines over slow phone lines. Usenet eventually overruns ARPANET as thevirtual bulletin board of choice for the emerging hacker nation.
[1980 Dec] Roscoe Gang, including Kevin Mitnick , invade computer system at US Leasing.
[1981] Kenji Urada, 37, becomes the first reported death caused by a robot. A self-propelled robotic cart crushed him ashe was trying to repair it in a Japanese factory. :-)
[1981] Commodore Business Machines starts shipping the VIC- 20 home computer. It features a 6502 microprocessor, 8colors and a 61-key keyboard. Screen columns are limited to 22 characters. The product is manufactured in WestGermany and sells in the U.S. for just under $300.
[1981 Jul] Microsoft acquires complete rights to Seattle Computer Product ’ s DOS and names it MS-DOS .
[1981] Ian Murphy ('Captain Zap') was the first hacker to be tried and convicted as a felon. Murphy into AT&T's computers and changed the internal clocks that metered billing rates. People were getting late-night discount rates whenthey called at midday.
[1981 May 23] Kevin Mitnick , 17, is arrested for stealing computer manuals from Pacific Bell's switching center in LosAngeles, California. He will be prosecuted as a juvenile and sentenced to probation.
[1981 May 28] First mention of Microsoft on Usenet.
[1982] There are an estimated 3 million computer terminals "networked" larger "host" computers. Also, there are anestimated number of 5 million desktop computers in use within the United More than 100 companies makepersonal computers.
[1982] Sun Microsystems , Inc. is founded by four 27-year-old Andreas von Bechtolsheim , Vinod Khosla , ScottMcNealy and Bill Joy .
[1982] As hacker culture begins to erode, losing some of its brightest minds to commercial PC and software start-ups, Richard Stallman starts to develop a free clone of UNIX, written in C, that he calls GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix).
[1982] Lewis De Payne ('Roscoe') pleas conspiracy and fraud. Sentence: 150 days in jail. Accomplice getsthirty. Mitnick gets ninety day diagnostic by juvenile justice system, plus a year probation.
[1982] Kevin Mitnick cracks Pacific Telephone system and TRW ; destroys data.
[1982] William Gibson coins term "cyberspace."
[1982] '414 Gang' phreakers raided. '414 Private' BBS was where the '414 Gang' would exchange information whilebreaking into systems of Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center and Los Alamos military computers.
[1982 Aug] Commodore ships the Commodore 64 computer and enters more than one million homes during this firstyear. The C-64 was the first home computer with a standard 64K RAM. With an suggested retail price of $595, it wasconsidered a huge value. It included a keyboard, CPU, graphics and sound chips.
[1982 Sep 19] Scott E. Fahlman typed the first on- line smiley, :-)
[1983] The Internet is formed when ARPANET is split into military and civilian sections.
[1983] The movie WarGames is released, Matthew Broderick plays a computer whiz kid who inadvertently initiates thecountdown to World War III.
[1983] Plovernet BBS (Bulletin Board System) was a powerful East Coast pirate board that operated in both New Yorkand Florida. Owned and operated by teenage hacker 'Quasi Moto', Plovernet attracted five hundred eager users in 1983.
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