I'm a 35 year old engineer who started getting into tech by being curious about hacking and hacker culture. At the time there were dozens of zines, IRC channels and message boards discussing everything from wifi hacking with alpha antennas to basic tutorials on SQL injection, and a lot of philosophising and activism.

After stumbling on a recent link to Phrack here, I went to check the old sites and found a pretty desolate picture: everything's either dead or became corporate sites selling expensive courses for certificates under a fake anime/hacking design.

I'm curious about what the current state of the community is. Where do people share content nowadays? Discords, telegram channels, nothing remaining...? If you were pointing a sharp 16-year-old somewhere today (or a curious nostalgic millenial), where would you send them?