Alex: Absolutely.
David: ...and I was never getting something as weird or high-profile as Phrack even.
Alex: As an impressionable (and horribly geeky) teenager I read a ton of cheesy cyberpunk fiction, and was heavily into games like Shadowrun; I remember a weird period in the early 90's when "paydata" was a thing.
David: Yeah the part about where hackers come from struck home for me because like, I got a modem young.
Alex: and you were hooked, huh?