Don Bruder wrote:
That > if you put a c xxxx you would go to a site, or in the case of c gte Internet, you would have access to GTE Corp net access of the time. We used it to access our company mail, by c mail and the such, it was the very start of what is the net today. Very crude and text only but it did what is was meant to do. Later it was merged with United Telephone (Sprint) and was called GTE Telenet and then Sprint Telenet, that was what was called PC Pursuit. We also has a few spammers back then, but you were able to track them down and make their lives hell, as we did with them and the hackers. Ah the good old days with 300 baud dial upsIn article <1157394389.442122.176790@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, "Chris Morse" <win32mfc@gmail.com> wrote:Chris Morse wrote:William Heckel wrote:What was your hacker handle back in the day..My handle was "MAD MAX". I was friends with a decent cracker named Mr. Xerox. But I did not crack any software myself. Towards the last couple years I went by "Sir Ghent", where "Ghent" was taken from a black magic marker that was sitting on my desk. // CHRISI've decided to to a little personal write up in response to Terry's "Evil things" thiread. In thinking about my past, I remembered that my handle, for quite a while, was "TELE-HACKER". The TELE part was from TELENET, a packet-switching network owned by GTE. I did a lot of hacking on there. // CHRISYou too, eh? :) MichNet was a sub-segment of the TELENET operation, and I remember to this day the keystroke sequence to wander through a whole mess of GOPHERs before causing an error that would eventually give you wide-open access to "The Internet".Dial in, and wait for the "login:" prompt. Enter "help", and hit return, to find yourself looking at a GOPHER server trying to be helpful. From there, it was 1<ret>7<ret>18<ret><tab>4<ret>library<ret>?<ret>h<ret>11<ret><down-arrow four times><ret> and then you'd see: "Internal Error #17414. Please contact the computer support department in room 221 of Cowley hall for more information." followed by a naked ">" prompt. From there, hitting return would prompt you for an address/port number to telnet to. Presto! Root access on a backbone-connected machine (Damned if I know *WHAT* machine it was, though - Never did care enough to find out. Someplace in Canada, I think.)
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