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'''HoHoCon''' (or '''XmasCon''') was a conference series which took place shortly before or after [[Christmas]] in [[Houston, Texas]], sponsored by [[Drunkfux]] and the [[Hacker (computer security)|hacker]] [[online magazine|ezine]] [[Cult of the Dead Cow]]. The fourth and fifth HoHoCons were also sponsored by ''[[Phrack]]'' magazine and took place in [[Austin, Texas]]. [[Phreaking]] software [[BlueBEEP]] was released at HoHoCon '93.

HoHoCon is generally credited as being the first "modern" [[hacker con]],<ref>{{cite book | author = Raveesh Mayya.K | date = 2012 | title = BLITZ-THE IT QUIZ BOOK | publisher = Sapna Book House (P) Ltd. | pages = | isbn = 9788128005800 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yKSEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT334}}</ref> although [[Summercon]] was around before it. It inspired later conventions such as [[DEF CON]] and [[Hackers on Planet Earth|HOPE]].{{cn|date=July 2014}}

All together, there were five conferences.<ref name="Menn2019">{{cite book | author = Joseph Menn | date =  2019 | title = Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World | publisher = Hachette UK | pages = | isbn = 978-1-5417-6237-4 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=x0RzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT41}}</ref>

==Conferences==
* [http://www.cultdeadcow.com/news/h-con90.txt HoHoCon '90 (XmasCon)] ([[Houston, Texas]], December 28 - 30 1990)
* [http://www.cultdeadcow.com/news/h-con91.txt HoHoCon '91] ([[Houston, Texas]], December 27 - 29 1991)
* [http://www.cultdeadcow.com/news/h-con92.txt HoHoCon '92] ([[Houston, Texas]], December 18 - 20 1992)
* [http://www.cultdeadcow.com/news/h-con93.txt HoHoCon '93] ([[Austin, Texas]], December 17 - 19 1993)
* [http://www.cultdeadcow.com/news/h-con94.txt HoHoCon '94] ([[Austin, Texas]], December 30, 1994 - January 1, 1995)
==References==
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