111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]
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Re: 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]
#2TLDW: First three digits are ignored, The remaining are mod 7.
Reminds me of this classic.
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#3Interesting! I once lost my original StarCraft CD Key. In a desperate attempt to simply install and play the game I tried converting “StarCraft” to numbers using A1Z26 cipher. Honesty didn’t know it at the time what to call what I was doing. I was just a kid! But, guess what? It worked! It only worked for local play. BattleNet did not see it as a valid key. I like to think some SWE somewhere hid that in there on purpose. Whoever you are, if you see this, thank you!
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#4Interesting! I once lost my original StarCraft CD Key. In a desperate attempt to simply install and play the game I tried converting “StarCraft” to numbers using A1Z26 cipher. Honesty didn’t know it at the time what to call what I was doing. I was just a kid! But, guess what? It worked! It only worked for local play. BattleNet did not see it as a valid key. I like to think some SWE somewhere hid that in there on purp…
There’s also a valid key pre-brood war that was something like “1234567890123”
Re: 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]
#5000-0000000 was the key I kept in my memory in case I needed to install Visual Basic 6.0 on a new computer back in my middle school days :) great memory I forgot about, thank you for sharing the link.
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#6I wish more YouTube videos were like this: no intro, outro, ads, annoying music, please like and sub, captivating voice.
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#7I wish more YouTube videos were like this: no intro, outro, ads, annoying music, please like and sub, captivating voice.
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Re: 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]
#8It may sound strange to people who were born later.
But in 90s these mechanisms were in infancy. It was normal for computers to auto-login and have no password at all, processes could each read entire memory on the machine. Software was cracked the moment it came out and it was assumed people bought any software because they feared legal action rather than because they had no other way to get their hands on it -- late 90s and early 2000s you could download pretty much anything you wanted, immediately, for no cost.
There really wasn't much possibility to protect your piece of software. If it was put on a CD somebody will either extract the key or modify your software to accept any key.
Windows security mechanism was no better and there were copies distributed so much that probably many people remember "standard" CD Keys even to this day.
And it was pretty much safe because most software did not have ability to phone home so the software developer would have no way of knowing that somebody used an illegal copy.
The business model was mostly companies paying for software (fearing an ex-employee reported illegal use). I remember most teens and young adults (which is most people who used computers) would never buy any kind of software, music or video. The only exception was sometimes people bought OEM software with their hardware.
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#9I wish more YouTube videos were like this: no intro, outro, ads, annoying music, please like and sub, captivating voice.
there are tons of these videos on all kinds of topics. Unfortunately, without a captivating thumbnail view counts are extremely low and click through rate is laughable. Yet some creators refuse to A/B test crafted thumbnails that have often nothing to do with the video but drive views. Similarly, I keep my videos short and concise as I see viewer time as at least as valuable as mine and so do plenty of other creators. Unfortunately, viewers don’t appreciate this en mass. My sad conclusion is that people don’t value their time high enough to immediately leave a video that is wasting their time or, as so often, has almost nothing to do with the title or thumbnail. People forget why they clicked on a video within seconds of watching it.
Source: I am a creator myself, releasing a mew video every Friday. I have read the engagement guides from YouTube and other creators and decided to not take part in this landgrab for viewer time. People have more important things in their life than my videos and I should be mindful of how I use their time.
Re: 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]
#10It was valid for Visual Studio 97 as well.