article_snippet: A tech-savvy, inquisitive and slightly anti-authoritarian community had been born.
article_snippet: The next generation came in the early 1980s, as people bought personal computers for people homes and hooked people up to the telephone network.
article_snippet: The Web wasn't yet alive, but computers could still talk to one another.
article_snippet: And the first digital hangouts came into being.
article_snippet: The stock market, hospitals, credit card transactions -- everything was running on computers now.
article_snippet: The Web changed that, putting all that stuff at everyone's fingertips.