It was also the inspirational name behind a multitude of “hacker” (really more like tinker) communities back around the millennium. I’m not sure where these went, maybe they were killed by social media, but there used to be a lot of 2600 named tinker group for technology “nerds” here in Scandinavia. I guess what happened was the same thing which happened for me, people got older and stopped “hanging-out”, but I wonder where younger technology “nerds” go today. I think that it’s really interesting that the whole, very anarchistic mentality, which later spawned things like Anonymous doesn’t seem to have caught on with the younger generations even though they are even more oppressed and left behind by the current western economies and governments than my “generation” was. Most of it is still run by the people from that period who are now all 40+.

Anyway, I assume these as well as the tone are also a strong inspiration for the name.