DDoS for sale were not a big thing until Bitcoin. You couldn't transfer meaningful amounts anonymously. And no, lol. There were no million machine botnets in 9

DDoS for sale were not a big thing until Bitcoin. You couldn't transfer meaningful amounts anonymously. And no, lol. There were no million machine botnets in 90-s. You could DDoS the entire countries with a few dozen computers, Slammer did that accidentally with Korea.