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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by weinzierl on Saturday March 20, 2021 @12:30PM (#26524216)
Grew up in West Germany when the Demoscene was at it's height, but never heard of "pink PLK cards". Could you give a hint what that is?

EDIT: Found it "Postlagerkarte"[1], I have heard that term before, but never was aware what it was. It feels strange that at a time you could do things easily, legally and anonymously, all at the same time. As a minor, at that. Let alone anonymously sending things to strangers. Admittedly I miss that world more than the Demoscene.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postlagerkarte

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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by ludwigschubert on Saturday March 20, 2021 @12:43PM (#26524296)
Take a look, first-name-fellow! :D https://gotpapers.scene.org/?p=849
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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by weinzierl on Saturday March 20, 2021 @12:52PM (#26524350)
Thanks, excellent article - no questions left. Günter von Gravenreuth also rings a bell, haven't read that name in a long time.
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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by jansan on Sunday March 21, 2021 @08:51AM (#26530026)
>Günter von Gravenreuth also rings a bell, haven't read that name in a long time

He died in 2010, maybe that's why we haven't heard much of him recently. De mortuis nil nisi bonum, but he was a bit of an annoyance.

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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by jansan on Sunday March 21, 2021 @08:36AM (#26529950)
For some reason I totally missed this time. Can you let me know when the demoscene roughly had its peak?

Friends of mine had the police search their houses in 1987 for exchanging cracked C64 games with people all over West Germany. They were still adolescents, so they got away with a 100DM fine.

I was just a harmless teenager, copying games from friends (but also buying quite a few), but it seems I closer to some high profile crackers than I would have imagined. I wonder how many of them became part of the Demoscene.

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