Hackers and crackers and geeks and gamers

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	BBS - The Documentary An 8 part documentary about the subculture born from the creation of the bulletin board system (BBS), which was the internet back in the 80s If you like this, you should buy it - click HERE WATCH
	Freedom Downtime The True Story Of Hacker Kevin Mitnick WATCH
	Micro Men A totally watchable dramatisation of the early 80s computer rivalry in England, between Acorn and Sinclair, featuring Alexander Armstrong and Martin Freeman WATCH
	Hackers: Wanted WATCH
	Llamasoft And The Space Giraffe A talk given by Jeff Minter, one of the most inspired programmers of the last 30 years. When you see "visualiser" techniques in your media player (making graphics in accordance to the sounds), you can thank him for his original work in designing the concept. WATCH
	Hackers - National Geographic WATCH
	Indie Game - The Movie WATCH
	TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard WATCH
	Kim Dotcom - VICE WATCH
	The Pirates of Silicon Valley A dramatisation of the battles between Microsoft and Apple in the 1970s WATCH
	WarGames Classic 1983 film about a hacker who gets into a government system WATCH
	Inventions That Changed the World Jeremy Clarkson looks back at the history of early computers and how much of an impact their creators had WATCH
	The Machine that Changed The World a 10 part series from 1992, joint produced by WGBH and BBC WATCH
	The KGB, the Computer and Me WATCH
	MTV True Life - I'm a Gamer WATCH
	I Am Streetfighter WATCH

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BBC World Service - The Hackers
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Kids React To... Old Computers
Funny, and cool - I remember as a kid being told about how we had the power of a computer that took up a whole room in that box. They should have made the kids use a cassette deck though - that's the true 10 minute experience of early 80s computers for most people!

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updated, plus a much better version of "Micro Men" added