alt Hacker NewsSneakernet was common also. Say you have a class of 30 kids, and one of them has access to Usenet to grab qcrack.zip. He'll put it on a floppy disk and share ;)
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mikestorrent • yesterday at 11:54 PM
Hells yeah qcrack.zip
Sneakernet was common also. Say you have a class of 30 kids, and one of them has access to Usenet to grab qcrack.zip. He'll put it on a floppy disk and share ;)
Hells yeah qcrack.zip
yeah, software travelled exactly the same way as rumours that such and such had a rib removed - remarkably effectively.
Also the same way we got viruses, long before anyone I knew had the Internet.