Extremely square illustration of the (fairly accurate) process in which software was pirated before Operation Buccaneer. Found it funny. reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ebookit · 2016-09-27 04:03 Why join the Navy, when you can be a pirate? I remember every time a new version of MS-DOS came out the BBSes had it in their elite or l337 or whatever section. When Windows 3.0 and 3.1 came out a lot of BBSes had that as well. There was a BBS called Rusty and Eddie's BBS that got busted by the FBI and it was a big BBS with multi-state login numbers and stuff. Many SYSOPS who used to be drop points or whatever ended up smashing their hard drives after the FBI was busting SYSOPS for warez and stuff like that. I don't pirate anymore, I just use free or open source software now. For video games I just wait for a Steam sale for the game I want to buy. Steam exists for GNU/Linux now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2016-09-27 11:51 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ebookit · 2016-09-28 00:02 When I saw SYSOP it was in all caps on some BBSes. I've also seen it all in lower case and a mixed case like sysop or SysOp. Stood for System Operator. I remember the "Hug a Sysop today, our families think we are nuts." with an ASNI screen of dollars going down a toilet to symbolize the phone bill and other costs of a BBS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2016-09-28 00:47 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2016-09-28 02:14 whats so funny about it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2016-09-28 02:17 rusy and eddie were such dangerous people. http://imgur.com/a/EqlSK i have an obit for him on bbsnews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ebookit · 2016-09-29 19:42 Yeah, I collected BBS numbers for a BBS list and tried to visit as many BBSes as I could. Not all of them were nice, but most were. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2016-09-30 22:06 okay i got my downvote but i still dont see whats funny ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThrakaAndy · 2016-10-03 04:57 The poster did say "found funny" which means he found it funny. I don't see it funny either. It would be interesting what he found funny. Maybe he found it more nostalgic-funny? Like "Heh" not "Haha!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThrakaAndy · 2016-10-03 14:02 Funny that really classic warez became the *only* way software is archived. It's hard to find original floppies for anything that isn't a retail game. How much registered shareware has disappeared because BBS were taken down or removed and as the internet moved in, they just threw away tons of data. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2016-10-05 00:15 well it's very similar to how it's still done today. OP isnt answering and usual downvote fags are doing their job here. i find THAT funny ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2016-11-20 00:52 Yes this. The comic sans/graphic design seemed funny to me. And it made me chuckle as it seemed extremely square. But yes still accurate to some degree.