Completely misses the point. Hacker groups died because the information they had got distributed to the web.
Wind back the clock to 1984. How do you learn to program a Macintosh? Some small circulation magazines (books were rare--there is a reason O'Reilly became such a phenomenon), a local users group (if you were amazingly lucky and lived in SF, LA or San Diego), or a hacker group.
How would your learn it now? The web. You don't need a hacker group. Or books. Or magazines.
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Completely misses the point. Hacker groups died because the information they had got distributed to the web.
Wind back the clock to 1984. How do you learn to program a Macintosh? Some small circulation magazines (books were rare--there is a reason O'Reilly became such a phenomenon), a local users group (if you were amazingly lucky and lived in SF, LA or San Diego), or a hacker group.
How would your learn it now? The web. You don't need a hacker group. Or books. Or magazines.