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One of the legends says that hackers have changed under the influence of “crackers” – the
people who liked to talk on the phone at somebody else’s expense. Those people hooked up to
any number and enjoyed the pleasure of telephone conversation, leaving the most fun – bills – for
the victim. Another legend tells us that modern hackers were born when a new computer game
concept was invented. Rules were very simple: two computer programs were fighting for the reign
on the computer. The results of this game are two in number and are well known: hackers and
computer viruses. One more story tells that the “new” hackers came to existence when the two
students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found an error in a network program. They
informed people, responsible for the network, about this mistake but with no result. The offended
students wrote a code that completely paralyzed the network and only after that the error was
fixed. By the way, those students founded The Motorola Company later.
Today, when the Internet has entered everyone’s house there is no shield between a hacker
and your PC. You can password yourself up, but then either a hacker will crack your PC anyway
or nobody will enter your site, because passwords kill accessibility. If your PC is easy to access no
one can guarantee what will happen to your computer – hackers, you know them.
Monster? Chimeras? No! Every hacker is a human being and every hacker has his soft spots:
good food, pretty girls or boys, classical music, hot chocolate at the fireplace, apple pie on Sunday.
First of all, hacker is a connoisseur, a professional with no computer secret out of his experience.
And how he uses his skill and knowledge depends on him, God, and Holy Spirit.
KEEP CLICKING!
Computers spoil your eyes, computers are bad for your nerves, computers – oh, these
computers! Don’t believe it! Why don’t people criticize guns that kill much more people? “That is
life”, you say. Yes, but how can you blame such wonderful thing like a computer, when you can’t
even use it properly? All evils imputed to computers are the results of our inexperience.
How can you blame computers for spoiling your eyes if you play GTA Vice City for hours?
How can a computer be bad for your nerves if you cry out: “Damn, stupid piece of…” (you know
what) every time it hangs because of your being not too smart to tell it what you want to be done.
Come on, lighten up, computer is just a piece of hardware and software mixed. And if you
don’t know or can’t decide how to make this explosive cocktail, ask yourself just one question:
“Who is more stupid of you two?” Of course, I’m not a computer maniac beating everyone blaming
an innocent machine. But there is one little thing people can’t or don’t want to understand:
computers are not able to realize ideas you don’t have and undertake the projects you haven’t
mentioned. They are just tools in your hands. And the results of using them are the results of your
being patient to tell in a really simple binary way: “Come on, old man, do it!” Computers are of
metal and plastic but if you don’t scare them by your aggression, they do what should be done.
SURFING THE NET
What is more impressive than the pyramids, more beautiful than Michelangelo’s David and
more important to mankind than the wondrous inventions of the Industrial Revolution? To the
converted, there can be only one answer: the Internet. It is entering every area of our life – college,
work and home. The electronic superhighway provides an entry to libraries, research institutions,
databases, art galleries, census bureaus, etc. For those of us interested in intercultural
communications Cyberspace is a universal community, with instant access not only to information
to anywhere, but also to friend old and new around the globe.
The Internet is an amorphous global network of thousands of linked computers that pass
information back and forth. While the Internet has no government, no owners, no time, no place,
no country, it definitely has a culture, which frequently approaches anarchy; and it has a language,
which is more or less English. Like all new worlds, Cyberspace has its own lingo, for example:
online, modem, free net, web page, freeware, browser. There are words to describe people who

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