At the time a lot of people in there were cracking Yahoo rares. Names that you can't make as username anymore.

Most coveted were ones with capitals, special characters, underscores at the beginning. People bought and sold those for thousands of dollars.

That made more sense to me than these crypto games. Those were at least something scarce and not manufactured. They had intrinsic value, especially for the cracker because they had to come up with name lists, and brute force the passwords, and use potentially trojan ridden hacking tools from shady phpnuke sites.

The usernames were pretty cool in contrast with the new username rules Yahoo had. Card trading just seems boring AF.