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Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Post by bombcar »

oldandboring wrote: post #22
thijson wrote: post #19

I 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'...

Ciudad Warez was a common joke for us, though I do suspect one person actually pronounced it that way.

Warez as "softwares" seems reasonable to me, but language moves.

Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Post by Bluecobra »

mvkel wrote: post #42

Such fond memories. So many OS reinstalls after inadvertently infecting my computer from a sketchy photoshop crack. You learn to never get too attached.

Same, I think at one point I was reinstalling my (pirated) copy of Windows 98 SE at least once a month. In hindsight I should have pirated Norton Ghost as well.

Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Post by hecanjog »

esafak wrote: post #38
soseng wrote: post #27

It'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…

I don't remember a .wav era. Roughly speaking, there was .mid, .mod, .mp3

I remember folks trading u-law or a-law compressed wavs before mp2 and mp3 and the perceptual codecs started to take over.

Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Post by amatecha »

bombcar wrote: post #40
esafak wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't remember a .wav era. Roughly speaking, there was .mid, .mod, .mp3

I remember a period of time where my computer was too slow to play MP3 but it could play WAV files. So I'd process a song from MP3 or similar to WAV and play it that way. Not sure why I bothered, really.

yeah, I sought out 96kbps mp3s because I could listen to those and still use my computer without too much lag. 128kbps was enough to really bog things down lol >_<

Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Post by bombcar »

amatecha wrote: post #45
bombcar wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember a period of time where my computer was too slow to play MP3 but it could play WAV files. So I'd process a song from MP3 or similar to WAV and play it that way. Not sure why I bothered, really.

yeah, I sought out 96kbps mp3s because I could listen to those and still use my computer without too much lag. 128kbps was enough to really bog things down lol >_<

My first foray into Linux was because it could burn a CD without errors (when reniced) while doing other things; the same computer under Windows had to be absolutely left alone when burning or it would make a coaster.

Kids these days with their multitasking and interfaces!

Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Post by giraffer »

tdullien wrote: post #16

The 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…

Here's the one I uploaded. It was the most extensive collection back in the day.

The dates listed are from when they were fetched, they encompass all eras.

https://archive.org/details/nfo_large_collection_2009_2012

Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Post by utopiah »

That's how I learned computer security, learned how IIS would allow specific commands, which paths Windows would not show, etc. Very interesting.

That's also, maybe more importantly, how I learned about information propagation and even epistemology because you HAD to 1st in order for your work to be valuable.

A lot of fun, of lot of learning still valuable decades later.

Warmly recommended!

Re: SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

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Post by exitb »

giraffer wrote: post #47
tdullien wrote: post #16

The 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…

Here's the one I uploaded. It was the most extensive collection back in the day. The dates listed are from when they were fetched, they encompass all eras. https://archive.org/details/nfo_large_collection_2009_2012

Have you posted the right link? It seems to be a 2009-2012 collection, when the question was about the 90s.
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