I used to write and sell shareware circa 2000. I got annoyed at cracked versions of my software showing up without fail a day or two after I released stuff, so one time I wrote and released an app named “Magic Text Box” which was nothing but a form with a big text box on it. It didn’t do anything at all and it didn’t even have any kind of protection on it. Two days later somebody released a cracked version of it. To this day I still do not understand how that person had nothing better to do.
this is my favorite from this artist. makes me chuckle every time
It’s funny how I wasn’t reading this in an accent until torrent offers him crack, now all the sudden they’re Australian!
Funny how they say how long it would take to download the ISO. Back then sneakernet was our preferred means of sailing the highs seas. In the before before times this meant going to a mate (or a mate of a mate of a dude who used to live next door to my cousin) with a stack of floppies and copying over everything you needed. Later when floppies got cheap, so you would ask for stuff and through multiple friends of friends you’d get a floppy handed over. Put it in your pocket and then run home to try out the new goods.
Later CD burning at home became a thing and CDs were already cheap. You’d show up at some dudes place, he’d have a bunch of CD spindles setup and machines for copying stuff. You’d give some of the software you had for him to copy and receive a bunch of CDs back. They usually had three kinds of CDs, the super premium ones he’d use for a master copy. The nice ones reserved for good folk and the spindles of the crappy ones which were good enough for most things. It was always a trade off between cost and quality, where crappy quality could mean failed burns which wasted time. Some people had special rigs setup for multiple copying at the same time, but the evil buffer underrun error was always lurking in the background.
My first messages on gmail in 2004 (when it was invite only) was discussing with friends to bulk order CD-R’s at 34 pennies a piece, including jewelcase. We felt like kings.
DDTPV-TXMX7-BBGJ9-WGY8K-B9GHM
I will be 100 years old and trying to remember my own social security number, and all I’ll be able to come up with is this goddamn thing. I can already see it.
J3QQ4 is rather famous where I live…
Me sending in Keygen:
I loved it when the keygen apps played music and did visual effects I’d never seen before.
Very punny.
Doraleous and Associates vibes
haha. I STILL have that key memorised, almost 30 years later.
