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kayge on April 5, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Remembering Bob Lee

His story about becoming the Code Red Vigilante (writing a program to help stop the spread of the Code Red worm) is a fun flash back to the early 2000s hacking scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ElYs3hXSkI

datalus on April 5, 2023 [–]

bruh the screen savers is such a blast from the past and peak late 90s/early 00s tech. It's crazy to think Martin Sargent co-hosted with Digg's co-founder Kevin Rose quite a bit on that show.

ethbr0 on April 5, 2023 | [–]

At this point, there's probably a whole generation on HN that isn't familiar with Digg, much less anything before.

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