alt Hacker News> 1996
I'm chuckling at the idea of pirating software in 1996.
iirc even in 1999, I couldn't figure out why Windows update required me to use internet exploder. It would take forever to download updates over dialup.
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karlshea • today at 3:47 AM
I definitely pirated Photoshop around 1996 from the macfilez (possibly zelifcam by then) AOL chat room.
cbozeman • today at 4:02 AM
My older brother and I were pirating software from BBSes before the World Wide Web existed.
Talk about being there when the deep magic was written.
Don't remember if it was the 90's, but we got trial versions of Photoshop on some magazine CD and it was then all about searching for cracks / patches to it. These were quite small and bearable to download on dialups. And of course, even otherwise, dialups really taught all of us patience ... our generation thus knows the value of delayed gratification :).