News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:A curated list of warez and piracy links by kebman on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:31AM (#29838848)
I bought my first pirated warez in Poland as a teen. I bought Atari ST games copied onto 3½-inch floppies at a shady market stall in Szczecin. Good times! (Not sure why the 3½-inch floppy disks are called floppy, because they ain't.) I mean, what was I supposed to do? They weren't available in my country!

Sharing culture was strong even without the internet back then. I still fondly remember when I got hold of what was probably the first audio cassette tape to go viral in Norway. It was of a really angry North Norwegian cursing and cursing and cursing because he couldn't fix his bloody washing machine. Very colourful!

Re:A curated list of warez and piracy links by GekkePrutser on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:48AM (#29848993)
They're called floppy because the disc inside is still floppy :) Only the plastic case is hard.