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Anti Warez Association, 1 (1993)
- paulryanrogers 3y agoThis is quite a screed against folks they see as stuck in that scene. I joined BBS's around this time and didn't discover warez until much later. Any obsession can become unhealthy, strange to see a whole zine focused on a subset of the warez scene. And it's not like the others didn't benefit from the labor of all these crackers and couriers. Regardless, it is entertaining despite the judgemental tone.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoMy 14.4K modem cost more than my computer... ...so I could play MP Wolf3D on a local paid BBS. It didn't work, but boy, after going from 2400 to 14.4K, that jpeg of Pamela Anderson topless downloaded in under a minute!
- thelittleone 3y ago14.4 worked fine for Doom MP. Those fun days when a modem init string tweak could gain 10-50% performance increase. Became a sysop of a popular BBS at this time, which led to my 25 year IT career. Fond memories. AT&F&D2&C1S0=0X4.
- thepostman0 3y agoLet me tell you, there was more than one
- eggsome 3y agoAre you sure it was Wolf3D? The original 90's Wolfenstine was single player only...
- zactato 3y agoyeah that was my memory of it too. I didn't recall MP until Doom.
- jandrese 3y agoDoom was famous for being one of the first Multiplayer PC games. There is an old anecdote about how John Carmack noted that it would be pretty easy to add network multiplayer to the code he was writing and John Romeo's eyes practically flashed dollar signs. Of course as an afterthought it had a couple of issues. The primary one being that the framerate was locked to whomever had the slowest computer. Probably drove PC sales as you did NOT want to be the guy who showed up to the LAN party and tanked everyone's FPS.
- DonHopkins 3y agoModems used to be a dollar a baud!
- linuxdude314 3y agoIts a joke.
- deepakhj 3y agoWe had weekly scene reports that ranked the FTP sites and groups. It also covered the drama, politics, group mergers or closures, and personal stories (under anonymity though). You got ranked by your performance on the sites that counted towards points. In order to upload files to a top 5 site, you would have to get into release groups and get the "pre", in other words, you get first dibs at uploading the files. Europe had the fastest internet connections especially Swedish and Finnish universities. Top 5 EU FTP sites were the most important. Followed by the top 5 US which were primarily hosted at Internet2 universities such as CMU, Georgia Tech, MIT, and Virginia Tech. These FTP sites were the first place any cracked release would be uploaded to. Almost like the root DNS servers for internet.
- loeg 3y ago[flagged]
- supportengineer 3y agoI miss the kind of people who would write something like this. The early 90's were something special. Where did all of these folks go? The whole culture disappeared.
- globular-toast 3y agoThey got golden handcuffs and forced to become normies.
- gopher_space 3y agoIt's all written on Minecraft signs now, gramps. What was unique (imho and in retrospect) about that period was the longevity of its media.
- maxbond 3y agoAnd the sign says, "the words of the prophets were lost when the griefers called."
- anthk 3y agoToday most guides on SH, sed, AWK, Perl, ANSI C, FVWM, Emacs... will just work even if they are from Linux Gazzete in the 90's. For instance, setting up the XTerm title with terminal escapes, renaming files in batch with vidir (moreutils), ffmpeg/ImageMagick FX and transcoding... Here you have a mirror: https://github.com/linuxgazette/lg https://github.com/linuxgazette/lg Lots of awesome guides, retrocode, fun and comics inside.
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- silisili 3y agoWe're all in our 30s and 40s and 50s working boring old jobs now. No idea where the culture went. Probably because it was greenfield then, laws were lax if not nonexistent, etc.
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- rolph 3y agoold school trolling, calling out IRC D00DZ, skitties, and crackers.
- nvy 3y ago>comrade@gnu.ai.mit.edu Ah of course it's GNU. That explains the, uh, peculiar sense of humor. Or rather the complete dearth thereof.
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- jandrese 3y agoI saw the email and thought it was going to be a talk on how with Open Source software there is no need to Pirate. Instead it seemed to be a very very long piece of "Warez bad, Warez people dumb" over and over again. Maybe, I kinda glazed over after the third screen. Maybe that's the point? Later on it had (presumably long dead) IP addresses for (ftp?) servers with Warez and porn. It felt like the kind of .txt file that can only be produced late at night in a dorm room with empty cans of Mountain Dew scattered about.
- kingforaday 3y agoWow. I forgot all about the days when 0-day meant new releases of warez not an exploit in the wild. Good times. Also fun to see these tied together... "The Zero Day Warez Girl was a Trojan"
- marginalia_nu 3y agoI found this glossary: http://fuuu.be/hack/1000_Tutorials/1000_Tutorials/WAREZ%20DEFINITION.txt http://fuuu.be/hack/1000_Tutorials/1000_Tutorials/WAREZ%20DE... There was certainly some colorful language.
- nicolas_t 3y agoIt still means that on private trackers
- User23 3y agoThis brings back memories of EFNET #warez in the mid early ‘90s. It was invite only of course.
- PcChip 3y agoI hung out in #Altrock
- User23 3y agoOne of the ops in #warez had the genius idea to register breasts.com back in the early '90s when domain names were literally free. He got retirement money almost immediately, to the tune of 50k a month. Probably got a small fortune when he sold the domain.
- nwellinghoff 3y agoIt was the best of times. Period. Was like the Matrix before you knew what it was about. Was when kids and nerds were a decade ahead of the rule followers. Was total freedom.
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- HPsquared 3y agoThere's a little bit of that piratical spirit in the crypto and AI spheres. A lot of charlatans though..
- bombcar 3y agoThe key was there wasn’t any money it; there was value but the ability to even send remote money was so rudimentary that the only people doing the things were amateurs in the true sense of the word - doing it for the love of the thing.
- myth_drannon 3y agoAt the core warez was about money. All the elite boards charged money. How would you expect them to pay for 10 isdn lines? Yeah, all the culture around was teenage geek stuff. But at the core is was some serious underground business that's why it was busted.
- keyle 3y ago"We don't crack software, we crack kitchen counters" l33t times.
- dann0 3y agoThe site was down for me. https://web.archive.org/web/20230814142753/https://defacto2.net/f/a3178 https://web.archive.org/web/20230814142753/https://defacto2....
- unixhero 3y agoI uh, wish I had read this back in 1993 - although I would not have taken it serious, but thought of it as humour, sarcasm, slapstick or irony.
- goodpoint 3y ago> It is hereforth proclaimeth the establishment of the Anti Warez Association by it's founders and charter members: > the Anti Warez Association announces it's establishment and openly begins soliciting membership. Trying to write in formal/archaic English while systematically misspelling "its".
- Ancapistani 3y agoTo be fair to them, it was hard to Google how to spell something when you were using a 14.4Kbps modem and Google wouldn't be launched for another five years.
- throwaway71271 3y agoi also miss the 90s, particularly the phrack49 era unleashed by aleph1's smashing the stack for fun and profit maybe with lora and riscv this time will come back open computers that can talk to each other, jump to an address and execute code hack the planet
- spiritplumber 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMGOm9E-HakThePlanet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMGOm9E-HakThePlanet
- hggh 3y agoVery interesting URL, it redirects to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMGOm9E-Hak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMGOm9E-Hak. I didn't know that you can append whatever you want to the video ID.
- spiritplumber 3y agoYep. Occasionally used for silliness.
- bombcar 3y agoDid you pronounce it Wares as in soft”wares” or to rhyme with Juarez? When I first encountered the latter it was eye-opening.
- crtified 3y ago1993. In those days, the major groups like Fairlight operated by postal ( / snail) mail network, too. At some point, a mutual-game-swapping acquaintance judged (the then-teenaged) me trustworthy enough to bring in, and gave me a reference/sign up form. From then on I got a few printed out pages in the mail once per month, listing the new available wares of the month, and an order form. You would send back the order form to a PO Box address, along with actual cash payment in the envelope, and a week later, a parcel with a stack of floppy disks would arrive.
- Agingcoder 3y agoI remember something similar ie an acquaintance of mine who was ´introduced’. He used to aggregate orders and forward them to his main provider, who eventually got busted, at which point my acquaintance stopped. I remember thinking that this was very clearly not the regular disk swapping between kids, but a much more organised, for profit, enterprise.