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Side note, I have and will continue to pronounce "Warez" like the Mexican city Juarez. I know it's wrong, but I read the word years before I heard someone pronounce it and it's stuck in my head that way.
The correct pronunciation always is, always has been, and always will be: war'ehz.
He pronounced it War...Ez...
Interesting. Having seen the name a million times in younger years, I always assumed it was a reference to the pistol.
Wow, that brings back memories. Long nights, CRTs, that fresh and health-promoting smell of warm electronics in poorly ventilated spaces, microwaved garbage food, sugary drinks … not sure how my friends and I survived until adulthood.
I need to find a CRT and recreate one of those nights. Always wanted a 17" Viewsonic.
In 9th grade I was a "VP" of a group called aPC. We were couriers. I used to walk down the hallways of my Jr High school thinking how I was so fucking cool and not one single person around me knew it. :)
The .nfo files were the best art.
[1] My crew and I made ex aequo first place at a PC demo-compo in Sweden/Uppsala, tied with Future Crew, before Future Crew became a thing so believe me I know about the PC scene being late to the game ; )
In 9th grade I was a "VP" of a group called aPC. We were couriers. I used to walk down the hallways of my Jr High school thinking how I was so fucking cool and not one single person around me knew it. :)
Ditto. I lucked into being a courier. We had a second phone line at my house and while we cancelled it, Bell Atlantic left it active for three YEARS, but no active billing attached to it, so I could call anywhere in the world for free. I used Slip.NET for years too, and became a courier between EU and North America, since I had free long distance I could make the long calls to upload/download. To this day I have spok…
In 9th grade I was a "VP" of a group called aPC. We were couriers. I used to walk down the hallways of my Jr High school thinking how I was so fucking cool and not one single person around me knew it. :)
Same! And APC rings a bell - were they MP3 and ISO? I was an MP3 courier in a group on a lot of global top sites. I remember being in an irc chan for one of them (I think it was the hungarian one) and kali of the top group RNS stated his birthday or something else personal and said "oh crap I shouldn't have said that" lol. He was indicted by the DOJ in 2009! He was found not guilty of conspiracy to commit copyright i…
Wow, that brings back memories. Long nights, CRTs, that fresh and health-promoting smell of warm electronics in poorly ventilated spaces, microwaved garbage food, sugary drinks … not sure how my friends and I survived until adulthood.
I need to find a CRT and recreate one of those nights. Always wanted a 17" Viewsonic.