Geeks
How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
by Jon Katz · first published 2000
100% recommend
"Jesse and Eric were roommates in the tiny town of Caldwell, Idaho, two nineteen-year-old working-class kids squeezing out a living with their seven-dollar-an-hour jobs selling and fixing computers. College was never in the cards. They spent every spare cent on their computers, and every spare moment online.". "Jesse and Eric were geeks - suspicious or disdainful of authority figures, proud of their status as outsiders, fervent in their belief in the positive power of technology. They'd been outsiders as long as they could remember, living far from the mainstream of school or town life. Nobod
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i recently read katz's "geeks" [http://www.amazon.com/Geeks-Lost-Boys-Internet-Idaho/dp/0375...], partly out of a sense of slashdot nostalgia, and found it surprisingly engaging.
on “Slashdot and SourceForge sold to Dice Holdings” ↗…it was to be an outsider in the days after Columbine. https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/voices-from... If the stories in this post are interesting to you, a book to consider would be Geeks, by Jon Katz. https://g.co/kgs/p2rLUT
on “Ask HN: How did you get started in tech and/or Linux?” ↗