Having firearms stored safely and appropriately does seem like generally good advice, regardless of whether your child plays Quake.

But if he/she is a hacker, surely they know how to pick locks... right?

Plot twist: the article is a stealth PSA about firearm safety

I guess I was hacking at a young age then. Obtaining the pak1.pak file from a friend who had the CD automatically turned the freeware version into the full version of the game. The tough part was transferring it over a 28.8 baud modem. Took all blasted night on my dads "borrowed" Pentium 90. Oof...kids with broadband these days don't know how easy they have it.

I remember boobs.jpg loading one... line... at... a... time

Do you recall how you transferred the file? I'm curious. You likely didn't dial each other up, or did you? Did you employ some kind of p2p utility? IP-based? I don't know much what was achievable as a kid or teen back then.

You would just dial the other person’s modem and that would give you a bidirectional steam of bytes from one machine to another. Anything you typed showed up in their terminal and vice versa. Then you could initiate a file transfer using a protocol such as Zmodem, which would stream the file in checksummed chunks so that parts could be retried if line noise corrupted them.

I used to use hyperterminal as a child to transfer if we didn't both have unlimited hour ISP access.

Dad, where did you say your BFG was?

Also hide your nail gun.

Quake sounds like Cake, for any Brass Eye fans.

Watch out for the end of level Czech Neck