Joshua Tompkins

@xaphania@meemu.org @mausmalone@mastodon.social @realhackhistory@chaos.social That's amazing! I found it in my local public library long before I ever saw the movie. I thought those awesome NYC teenage hackers were basically the coolest people ever. My memory is that the author seemed to feel the same way about them, too.

@mausmalone@mastodon.social @realhackhistory@chaos.social I might be the only person who ever read it, but there was a Hackers novelization, and at the end of it, Dade gives the "Zero Cool" handle to Joey!