alt Hacker NewsHas the quality declined over the years?
I get the 2600 zine at a local book store and I like it but there's a lot of articles that I don't really care about.
It might be a good thing though.
Has the quality declined over the years?
I get the 2600 zine at a local book store and I like it but there's a lot of articles that I don't really care about.
It might be a good thing though.
2600 is locked into a format that was relevant 30-40 years ago and is nearly irrelevant today. In my opinion, 2600 is pantomiming a hacker aesthetic and have long since abandoned any commitment to an underlying hacker ethos.
I'm surprised that they're now offering a digital format as, at one point, they were taking a hard stance to not provide one. I guess they changed their mind within the last 10 years or so.
Notice how Paged Out is libre/free licensed, making sure that they provide a CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA for their articles. 2600 is locked under copyright.