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Hacking Textfiles: Conventions

It was always natural for people who used a BBS who were all located nearby to have

gatherings and parties. In some cases, people might travel a long distance to see the

faces behind the text. There was nothing better than hanging out for a while with the

folks you'd talked to for months, having some great times and eating some pizza or

drinking soda while the hours went on.

You can trace back the idea of "conventions" a long way back; there have been science

fiction conventions, computer conventions, even phone phreak conventions... why

not hacker conventions? Some started out small and have grown to thousands of attendees,

with rented hotels and huge events accompanying them. Others are small and will remain

so, the same small group of friends meeting regularly to share stories and get insanely,

blindly drunk.

Here are some of the textfiles that have accompanied these events.