From an archival perspective... it's sad to be able to search the filelists for software that's probably lost to history. For example, I've been trying to track down a (working) copy of SAS for DOS since forever. Even software from fly-by-night houses can tell us so much.
SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
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Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
#22I remember various people from that time pronouncing warez in two distinct ways. wares ware-ez I'm not sure which is the correct way.
My interpretation was/is that they're both right. The word originated as 'wares with a Z' but once it was spelled that way it became natural to pronounce it 'ware-ez' but nobody thought you were unintentionally mispronouncing it. The in-joke continued on certain boards as 'warez' became 'Juárez'...
Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
#23The old warez cracking scene had an outsize impact on computer security. GRSecurity, Heartbleed vulnerability, most reverse engineering tools for security, etc. etc. etc. There's so much history here, touching on all sorts of insanity including selling 0-day to the US government that was then used to apprehend high-level Al-Qaida personnel, random warez busts leading to people taking oversea jobs, etc. etc. etc. If a…
Interesting. Where is it possible to read up on this?
Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
#24The old warez cracking scene had an outsize impact on computer security. GRSecurity, Heartbleed vulnerability, most reverse engineering tools for security, etc. etc. etc. There's so much history here, touching on all sorts of insanity including selling 0-day to the US government that was then used to apprehend high-level Al-Qaida personnel, random warez busts leading to people taking oversea jobs, etc. etc. etc. If a…
.nfo archives is quite complete out there on the archive sites. Those days were crazy busy in the warez world and the nfo files are a blast to read.
Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
#25The old warez cracking scene had an outsize impact on computer security. GRSecurity, Heartbleed vulnerability, most reverse engineering tools for security, etc. etc. etc. There's so much history here, touching on all sorts of insanity including selling 0-day to the US government that was then used to apprehend high-level Al-Qaida personnel, random warez busts leading to people taking oversea jobs, etc. etc. etc. If a…
> If anyone still has old .NFO archives from 1990-2000
Have you checked https://srrdb.com ?
Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
#26The NFO Search section is pure gold. I'm glad someone preserved all this.
yeah.. nice to look up yourself on many of those filez =)
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#27It's so easy to bait me with this nostalgia. There is something mysterious and enjoyable about dialing-in or connecting to a server in the unknown. During those days, many things were not easily discoverable which added to the fun.
For a brief time, this extended to the early internet with IRC servers. I spent most of my early teenage years downloading warez, .wav music files, and trying not to be a n00b on #c while asking n00b questions
Now that I am an old man, I wonder what today's youth do that is equivalent to this fun nerdy culture? Maybe I can partake, LOL.
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#28It's so easy to bait me with this nostalgia. There is something mysterious and enjoyable about dialing-in or connecting to a server in the unknown. During those days, many things were not easily discoverable which added to the fun. For a brief time, this extended to the early internet with IRC servers. I spent most of my early teenage years downloading warez, .wav music files, and trying not to be a n00b on #c while…
is it still roblox and or minecraft?
Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
#29I remember various people from that time pronouncing warez in two distinct ways. wares ware-ez I'm not sure which is the correct way.
Ware-ez is absolutely insane.
Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
#30From an archival perspective... it's sad to be able to search the filelists for software that's probably lost to history. For example, I've been trying to track down a (working) copy of SAS for DOS since forever. Even software from fly-by-night houses can tell us so much.
I think all the listed software is available for download in the website still-active BBS: scenelist.org:23 (I only tried the web interface briefly).