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[Hide] (3.3KB, 640x400) I was a warez d00d, in the 90's. I started out on BBS's and got to hang out with some warez board sysops and one time I brought my PC to their house because that was the quickest way to upload files to them. Fun fact: my 14.4k modem could transfer a 1.44 MB floppy disk image in 15 minutes. But I was running DOS and so during that time the PC was unavailable for any other tasks. I also tried my hand at running a BBS, but it didn't last very long, because like I said DOS only did one thing at a time. That was before I found out about Desqview, which was basically a multi-tasking hack add-on for DOS. And by that time I was already on Internet, so didn't care about BBS anymore.
On the Internet, I of course did more warez, especially since now I was free of daily upload/download ratios. I spent lots of time on IRC and at one point joined a scene group that did warez releases and ANSi art. I don't want to say which, but it wasn't one of the bigger ones. People used to trade warez directly on IRC via /dcc or upload the files to some FTP sites. Most of the time the FTP site admins had no clue their FTP was being used to store warez. It was usually hidden in strange or invisible directory names with embedded control codes for obfuscation. We had lists (txt files) of the currently known FTP sites with the exact strings to type for accessing the files. Usually they lasted quite some time before the site admin caught on (probably from all the extra bandwidth usage). We also had lists of