This unusually poetic article on #hacking from the LA Times back in February of 1989, by Sid Moody

"In the days of youth, hacking can become a compulsion, its practitioners an obsessive brotherhood. The hacker’s world shrinks into the machine and blooms inside like a Chinese chrysanthemum dropped into a water glass."
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-12-mn-2877-story.html