# Hacking - 30+ years ago — Walter Belgers

**URL:** <https://discourse.ossbase.org/t/hacking-30-years-ago-walter-belgers/626>\
**Category:** 2025 talks / workshops\
**Tags:** 2025, keynote, hacklu\
**Created:** [August 26, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://discourse.ossbase.org/t/hacking-30-years-ago-walter-belgers/626 "2025-08-26T08:54:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://discourse.ossbase.org/t/hacking-30-years-ago-walter-belgers/626/1 "2025-08-26T08:54:39Z")

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**Duration:** 60 min  
  
**Type:** Keynote  
  
**Speakers:** Walter Belgers

**Abstract**

How did computer hacking and the hacking scene look like when the internet was still tiny, 30+ years ago?

**Description**

Since the internet exists, people have been trying to circumvent security. Whereas most people nowadays do so for financial gain, 30+ years ago the world looked different. The internet connected academia. The people hacking were students, almost the only people who had access. Not many system administrators were paying much attention to security and for hackers, breaking into sites such as that of NASA, were ways to gain a reputation. In this presentation, “one of the Dutch hackers” will take a look at the hacking scene in the late 1980s, early 1990s

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