Jack Rhysider

My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.

You may stop this individual, but you cannot stop us all.

After all, we're all alike.

We're going to take a quick ad break here, but stay with us because when we get back, we're going to get into my favorite FRAC stories.

The first issue of Frack was published in 1985, before websites were popular.

So it was just hosted on a BBS, and you had to use your home phone and dial into it and read it that way.

And they wanted the articles to spread, so they encouraged people to mirror it on other people's BBSs in other towns.

But eventually, when websites became popular, Frack moved to Frack.com, and that became its new home.

But it didn't stay that way.

Somewhere around 1998, frac.com went offline.

It stopped publishing articles for two years and was down most of the time.

I should also mention that frac changed owners quite a bit.

The original founders went off and did something else.

New people came in and they were doing stuff, but it's a free magazine and they never tried to make money.

So it relied on volunteers to keep it going.

And they could only spend so many years of their life before going off and doing something else.

By 2000, the site looked dead.

The website had been mostly offline for the past few years and no new articles for two years.

And at that point, it was ran by Mike Schiffman, a.k.a.