this is how people born after 1995 hack. when i started hacking or “phreaking” in the late 80s i would get in the zone by snorting homemade amphetamines & listening to harsh noise cassettes while banging out code for 24+ hour periods on my atari. mostly i would write text-to-speech features into the operating system so the computer said swear words when you double-click. i remember when html was invented i got so frustrated because theres so many greater than and less than signs and you have to put them around everything. in early january of 2001 i changed Google’s header to a gif of a pissing orangutan and the resulting publicity turned the website into a household name
never have a been more devastated to scroll over a url and see its deactivated who are you ma'am
On this day, 13 February 1951, Aotearoa/New Zealand’s biggest ever industrial dispute began when dock workers started an overtime ban demanding the same 15% pay increase that all industrial workers had just been awarded. Waterside workers had only been offered a 9% pay increase, by the mostly British-owned shipping companies. The employers responded by locking out the workers, supported by the government who introduced emergency laws, brought in the army and navy to work as scabs and deregistered the Waterside Workers’ Union. The national umbrella union group, the Federation of Labour, supported the government, and the opposition Labour Party also failed to support the Waterside workers. Despite all the forces ranged against them, up to 20,000 other workers took solidarity strike action in support of the dockers, and thousands more refused to handle scab goods. But after 151 days, the workers were forced to concede defeat. In the wake of the dispute, many militants were blacklisted and prevented from working on the docks for years afterwards.
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