Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 12 days agoWhat was the first thing "pirated" on the net? What was the first thing to be pirated off the net in the modern age?message-squaremessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down17
arrow-up155arrow-down1message-squareWhat was the first thing "pirated" on the net? What was the first thing to be pirated off the net in the modern age?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 12 days agomessage-square46linkfedilink
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 days agoI remember photocopying game manuals at school to get around this. Lol
minus-squarenocturne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·12 days agoLucasArts and I think Sierra games would put red/blue text blocks where you had to put the red film over the text to read it. Photocopying yielded a black box.
minus-squaremeejle@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-211 days agoMy dad had some games that came with a “Lenslok”. You had to hold it up to the screen to decode the password.
I remember photocopying game manuals at school to get around this. Lol
LucasArts and I think Sierra games would put red/blue text blocks where you had to put the red film over the text to read it. Photocopying yielded a black box.
My dad had some games that came with a “Lenslok”. You had to hold it up to the screen to decode the password.