Timeline for the first half of the 90's

90’s
• LOD (Legion of Doom) & Masters of Deception are rival Hacking groups.
• Hackers penetrate DOD sites
• “The Difference Engine”
• EFF founded
• “Ribo Funk”
• Totals Recall (film)
• Steven Jackson games raided
• Op Sundevil
• Phiber Optics hacks TRW
• “Cyberpunk is Dead”

91
• “Synners” (film)
• “Storming the reality studio”
• “Cultural logic of late capitalism”
• “Mind Box” ISP provider
• 1,000 viruses exist in the world
• Justin Peterson (Hacker)
• Debut of the WWW
• Michelangelo Virus
• Gulf War Virus
• “Terminator 2” (film)
• “Transreal” (book)
• “Silicon Man” (book)

92
• “Snow Crash”
• EFF moves to DC
• “Hacker crack down”
• Mortal Kombat debut
• Lawnmower Man (film)
• Sneakers (film)
• Dark Avenger Virus 1260
• Freejack (film)
• Mondo 2000
• Future Sex

93
• Randall Schwartz craked intel passwords.
• Time Magazine does article on “Cyberpunk”
• Fringe Wars (book)
• Virtual Light (book)
• Defcon hacking Conference
• Mosaic browser released
• Steven Jackson games wins suit
• Wired magazine begins production
• Johnny Mnemonic game published PC/MAC
• Intel Ships 1st pentium chips
• Rise of the Dragon
• Nemsis
• Bubble Gum Crisis (translated for the west)
• “Deus X” (book)

94
• Damien Doligez cracks 40-bit RC4 encryption
• “Reboot” (TV series)
• Phiber Optik serves 13-month sentence
• Vladimir Levin Hacked Citi bank for 12 million dollars
• Cyberia (book)
• Ao Hell
• “Hacker and the Ants” (book)
• “Data Trash” (book)