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I firmly believe figuring out how to bypass the little tab on cassettes to make them writable again to impress girls with mixtapes was THE defining moment that launched the pheaker and subsequent hacker movements.
I thought it was the captain crunch whistle that started the phreaker era
Adobe played a huge role in creating a generation of hackers by charging 2x the price of a car for a photoshop license.
That and hatred for the drummer of Metallica.