2600
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
Founded in 1823 by the well known pedophile and lemonparty regular, Eric Gorden Corley, 2600 is the longest surviving poser magazine in existence. The magazine is published in the zine format, not because it is edgy and hip, as its producers would like you to believe; rather, because it is written for and by 13 year old boys and faggots. Consequently, most of the "content" is a diarrhetic stream of poorly edited articles ranging from "Hacking Walmart", to "Hiding Things from Your Parents", to useless verbatim source code (honestly, OMGWTFBBQ what is this 1960?), and to the sub-literate letters from 2600 readers.
2600 also infrequently holds IRL "meet-up" events which they like to tout as a forum to exchange technology and hang out with other basement dwellers, where the height of the festivities are a grand circle jerk during which they whistle a 2600hz tone. Unbeknownst to the attendees, these meetings are really just an opportunity for the feds to take everyones picture and put them on watch lists. These gatherings further prove that 2600 members are in fact unskilled script kiddies and not real hackers, because a real hacker would never openly admit they are one.
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[edit] Not So Secret Info
2600 meets on the first Friday of every month in the food court of the old citicorp building in New York City (the one that looks like it's on stilts because they had to build it around some church that was there). Caution : most 2600 members are also trekkies and matrix fags. Do not approach unless you're doing it for the lulz.
[edit] The Early Days
Unlike what could be gathered from the homogenized aftermath, the pre-1990 2600 was a great magazine. It featured nearly unreadable angsty and punkish articles, by guys with cool BBS nicks along with demos in phreaking phones and early unix systems Bell and AT&T used at the time. It resembed ED. This is a good thing since it made internet the haven for stringe pornography, shady forums and imageboards it is today. Without these fucked up teenaged losers, the internet would be known as some boring corporate Disney Land.
What we fail to realize is how hard it was to get any good information before Google and milw0rm. what remains of 2600 with the cons and usenet groups, irc-channels and tutorials is nothing but the radioactive afterglow of what was once the flagship for a great movement... no, on second thought, I suck dicks.
HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS.
[edit] The Video Game Console
2600 is also the greatest video game machine ever made, first released by Atari in 1977. It is also the most emo approved system ever made, and if you find a 2600 at a restaurant, club, or any other hangout, emo people are sure to be near. 2600 t-shirts also make you cool. Still, you don't have to be emo to like it -- and you can find lots of emolators on the net for all your 2600 needs. Of course, an emolator isn't as cool as the real thing in all its vintage plastic glory.
[edit] Links
- 2600 -- if you go to jail after reading this magazine, it's not our fault. We're just the messengers.
- NYC 2600 -- Information about the NYC monthly meetings which neglects to say they're on the first Friday of every month. Lulz.
- Atari2600.com -- a wonderful site to get your 2600 gaming fix
- AtariAge --The best Atari site out there. Period. Covers all Atari consoles and games.
