Comments on: Which dates belong on the Hacker Calendar?

By: edgore

edgore — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

March 1st, 1990 – the day we learned exactly how stupid the U.S. government was

By: bsdnazz

bsdnazz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

November 2 (1988) saw the Moriss Internet worm escape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

By: SkipF

SkipF — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

9 September 1947 – First bug found
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:H96566k.jpg

By: Gracklewolf

Gracklewolf — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

General Beringer: “Goddammit, I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it’d do any good!” –WarGames

This movie, even more so than Tron, got me interested in computer science as a kid. It was the perfect representation of that era: living under the doom of nuclear brinkmanship and the hope of amazing new computer tech. Plus Michael Madsen’s first real movie role (++).

By: Vnend

Vnend — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

August, 1986: Clifford Stoll starts investigating the intrusion of computers at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, eventually leading to http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Hackers/stalking_the_wily_hacker.article and his book, The Cuckoo’s Egg.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

November 22, 1987: someone hijacks the WTTW TV broadcast of ‘Doctor Who’ and shows a guy with a Max Headroom mask doing some weird antics, including getting his ass spanked.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

1940. Bletchly Park. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavis_Batey
Directly disobeying orders and ‘rodding’, reverse engineering and ultimately cracking an Italian enigma machine. If not hacking then hackesque.

By: tbo

tbo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

September 18, 1981 – Founding date of the German Chaos Computer Club.

By: wrybread

wrybread — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is this one of those “which one of these don’t belong with the others” tests? Because I really don’t think a couple of script kiddies using off the shelf software qualifies as one of the top 10 landmarks of hacking…

(When LulzSec posted the passwords you could clearly see that the list was compiled by the program “Havij v1.14 Advanced SQL Injection”).

By: JoshP

JoshP — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Flippant, but what was the last day AOL stopped mailing everyone coasters?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

12 January… the fictional HAL became operational… sure it’s science fiction, but it’s epic fiction.

By: skabob

skabob — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think they should use the Discordian calendar instead:

=> ddate
Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 8th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3177

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Weren't those nipple shields?

By: bazzargh

bazzargh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jan 1 1970 and January 19, 2038 surely?

By: melusine

melusine — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wouldn’t this be more of a “chronology” than a “calendar”?

By: Gulliver

Gulliver — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wouldn’t worry about that. If October 21st doesn’t get us I hear tell a cometary planet or singularity or some such is due to smack us upside the biosphere on Dec 21, 2012.

By: JustOk

JustOk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You could never be sure if the official list has been hacked.

By: Gulliver

Gulliver — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If War Games qualifies, then surely there's room for the June 13, 1986 film The Manhattan Project? Not a cyberpunk-oriented hacker film and not as famous, but a hacker film nonetheless.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

May 25 is Towel Day and Geek Pride Day.

By: Garst

Garst — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

June 26, 1968 – the Federal Communications Commission allowed the Carterfone and other devices to be connected directly to the AT&T network, as long as they did not cause harm to the system (13 F.C.C.2d 420)

By: johan,karlskrona

johan,karlskrona — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

the introduction of the www should have a place there, as should the internets, arpanet…
the first commercially available microcomputer and the commodore64.
the mocktrial of piratebay and piratebay and wikileaks goin up for the first time.
the first known hack, when was that?
and the media: 2600, mondo2000, wired, boingboing….

and maybe bells first call(sometime 1876), electricity, the first computer, the microchip (1971 intel&t.i), basic, computergraphics (1979 hÃ¥kan lans), p2p, wifi, tor..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

the whole of 2011 as the year everybody picked on Sony

By: teknocholer

teknocholer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

1970 or ’71 (precise date unknown) – First toy whistles are packaged in boxes of Capâ€™n Crunch cereal.

By: Malic

Malic — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

May 23, 2005 – Limor Fried registers the domain adafruit.com

By: Gulliver

Gulliver — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stephen Cole Kleene formalizes the Church-Turing thesis in his 1952 book Introduction to Mathematics:

http://books.google.com/books?id=HZAjPwAACAAJ&source=gbs_ViewAPI

I don’t know if the publication records go to the day that far back, but it may be recorded somewhere.

In October, 1970 Martin Gardner introduces the world to John Conway’s Game of Life in that month’s issue of Scientific American.

http://www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns/october1970.html