It was the mid-1980s, and Matthew Broderick had barely averted nuclear war in WarGames. Meryl Alper of USCs Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism has taken a fascinating look at the computer magazines aimed at teens and preteens in the 1980s, after the idea of computer hacking was on the radar but before the high-profile arrests of the late 80s and early 90s.
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