Comment by netsharc

Silicon Valley/tech used to be hippies, but the money-hungry noticed it's somewhere to make money, and swarmed to it.

Look at Cliff Stoll, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

And no wonder those "money!" people hang out in a forum made by a venture capital company...

I wrote this comment the other day, it got flagged to death:

> As someone who downloaded, over 28.8K modem, a version of the Jargon File (1) as a plain text file (2) to read during a school vacation, in the "good old days" of my imagination Silicon Valley was a lot cooler for hackers. But people noticed it was a place to make money, and all the money-hungry MBAs showed up, and now the whole industry has a stench to it..

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File (2) https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-4.4.7.dos.txt