In the late 1980s, when the Berlin Wall was still in place and Eastern Europe was in the last throes of communism, a few students decided to make their own computers, in their dorm room. They used smuggled or discarded parts bought from electronics dealers who came to the Politehnica University of Bucharest campus. After communism collapsed and internet arrived in Romania, the same dorm rooms hosted some of the world's greatest hackers at the time. Late at night, they bribed the doorkeeper with cheap vodka to let them enter the ED011 computer lab. Quietly, with their computer screens dimmed, they challenged themselves to hack NASA, the Pentagon, and the US Army. The 1980s and 1990s were romantic times in technology. Back then, the focus was on discovering and building things with minimum resources. Hackers usually wanted to learn and to test themselves, not to spy, steal secrets or make money.