The 1980s were a far cry from what life looks like today. If you weren’t around, you probably don’t remember using paper maps to navigate, renting VHS movies at Blockbuster, printing photos from film, or calling people to talk on their landline phones.
You may also not know that cybersecurity was a thing back then – but even that looked much different than it does today. The early hackers (yes, I was one of them) were motivated by curiosity and the thrill of testing system boundaries. Worries about large-scale cybercrime or widespread threats were largely absent.
