https://www.hackerculture.org Latest blog posts from The Hacker Culture Museum en Tue, 26 May 2026 12:17:25 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/tor https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/tor Onion routing released to the public — anonymity rebuilt as a network anyone could join. The Curators Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/cypherpunks https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/cypherpunks A San Francisco mailing list where strangers argued cryptography into politics — and shipped most of what followed. The Curators Tue, 01 Sep 1992 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/linux-kernel https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/linux-kernel A modest Usenet post by a Finnish student that became the kernel running most of the world. The Curators Sun, 25 Aug 1991 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/pgp https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/pgp Strong encryption for everyone — released into the world as an act of civil disobedience. The Curators Wed, 05 Jun 1991 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/eff https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/eff When the law came for hackers, a foundation was created to argue that the Constitution reaches into cyberspace. The Curators Tue, 10 Jul 1990 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/morris-worm https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/morris-worm A 99-line program that crippled the early internet and forced a culture to confront its own consequences. The Curators Wed, 02 Nov 1988 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/cuckoos-egg https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/cuckoos-egg A 75-cent accounting error that uncovered Cold-War espionage and invented modern incident response. The Curators Fri, 01 Aug 1986 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/hacker-manifesto https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/hacker-manifesto An essay written after an arrest that gave the digital underground its voice and its self-image. The Curators Wed, 08 Jan 1986 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/gnu-manifesto https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/gnu-manifesto Richard Stallman's declaration that software should be free — and the legal hack that made it stick. The Curators Fri, 01 Mar 1985 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/2600-magazine https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/2600-magazine A print magazine named after a whistle's frequency that gave the underground a public address. The Curators Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/demoscene https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/demoscene European crackers who started signing their work — and accidentally invented a digital-art tradition that is still running. The Curators Fri, 01 Jan 1982 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/chaos-computer-club https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/chaos-computer-club A German hacker club that turned tinkering into citizenship and rewrote the hacker ethic in plain political language. The Curators Sat, 12 Sep 1981 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/jargon-file https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/jargon-file A collaboratively edited dictionary of hacker slang that turned a subculture into a self-aware tradition. The Curators Sun, 01 Jun 1975 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/homebrew-newsletter https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/homebrew-newsletter A photocopied bulletin that turned hobbyists into an industry and made personal computing a shared project. The Curators Sat, 15 Mar 1975 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/altair-8800 https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/altair-8800 A mail-order metal box with switches and blinking lights that convinced thousands they could own a computer. The Curators Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/blue-box https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/blue-box A pocket-sized tone generator that turned the global telephone network into a hacker's playground. The Curators Fri, 01 Oct 1971 00:00:00 GMT https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/spacewar https://www.hackerculture.org/en/artifact/spacewar The first widely shared digital video game, written for fun on a $120,000 machine that was never meant to play. The Curators Sun, 01 Apr 1962 00:00:00 GMT