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by jdblair 502 days ago
I'm having memories of being asked to remove "the curse words" from the cracker startup screens on AppleII 80s games and stuff. These were almost always graphics buffer files (memory dumps) and the fix was hardly hacking (find file, edit in paint program) but it made me feel l33t.

I don't know how any software houses made money with the floppy copy scene in the 80s.

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I know what you mean

Like back when all you had to do to get banned software to run on your school’s computer was rename the executable to notepad.exe - I’ll be damned if I didn’t feel like neo in the matrix at the time