Hack-Tic
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Hack-Tic was a Dutch hacker magazine published between 1989 and 1993.
In 1988, a small delegation from the Chaos Computer Club in Hamburg visited Amsterdam after being invited by Caroline Nevejan, who organized political events at Paradiso in Amsterdam. Rop Gonggrijp, the magazine's later editor and publisher was at that point already somewhat well-known as a hacker that sometimes made the newspapers. Being inspired by Datenschleuder, the CCC magazine, and 2600 The Hacker Quarterly, Rop decided to start his own magazine. In January of 1989, the first issue was published. In the summer of that same year, Rop Gonggrijp, Patrice Riemens and Caroline Nevejan organized the Galactic Hacker Party in Paradiso.
During the years that followed the magazine grew from its original circulation of 50 photocopies to several thousand printed issues. In 1992 the first foundations were laid for Hacktic Netwerk, the organization which later became the ISP XS4ALL. Also in 1993, Hack-Tic organized HEU, or Hacking at the End of the Universe, the first outdoor hacker festival event.
In 1993 the last issue of Hack-Tic appeared. The issues are now online at XS4ALL, the ISP that grew out of Hacktic Netwerk still exists (and is going strong). Large hacker events continue to be held in the Netherlands every four years.
External link
- Old Hack-Tic issues (http://www.hacktic.nl)nl:Hack-Tic