Timeline for 1970s novel about computer hackers extorting a city
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| Apr 23, 2021 at 16:40 | vote | accept | Ken Shirriff | ||
| Apr 22, 2021 at 21:00 | answer | added | Jeff Shultz | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 11, 2021 at 17:14 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | I think I read a story in Analog from the early 1970s in which something is happening to all the mainframe and minicompters in a small town. The point was how important the computers were to the normal functioning. Either the story was set a few years in the future when computers would be more widely used, or the writer believed that computers were already so widely used that society would break down if they malfunctioned. | |
| Mar 11, 2021 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1369981433251586052 | ||
| Mar 11, 2021 at 4:34 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 11, 2021 at 0:53 | vote | accept | Ken Shirriff | ||
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| Mar 10, 2021 at 23:03 | answer | added | beichst | timeline score: 15 | |
| Mar 10, 2021 at 21:31 | history | edited | Ken Shirriff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 10, 2021 at 20:49 | comment | added | Ken Shirriff | @DavidW Sorry, no idea what the book looked like. I think someone was searching for the hacker throughout the novel and tracked him (or maybe them?) down just in time. But I don't remember any details. I estimate 1975, but it might have been 1980. | |
| Mar 10, 2021 at 20:46 | comment | added | DavidW | Note that 1975 is pretty early for the rogue hacker trope, since that was the year Shockwave Rider came out, and would have said that was probably one of the earliest of the type. | |
| Mar 10, 2021 at 20:39 | history | edited | DavidW |
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| Mar 10, 2021 at 20:39 | comment | added | DavidW | Hi, welcome to SF&F! Nice question! Any recollection what the cover of the book looked like? How was the hacker defeated? | |
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| Mar 10, 2021 at 20:30 | history | asked | Ken Shirriff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |