• wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    Sometime around 2007

    Bahahaha! Oh, OP, please tell us you’re ≈20yrs old without saying it outright. 🤣

    To the point: I, and everyone I knew, was pirating everything they could —from the early 90s onward.

    Yes, all of us would’ve “downloaded a car” in a heartbeat (well, maybe a week of them, at those baud modem speeds. 😅)

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        16 hours ago

        Hey, when they started listing it as a prereq for advanced design courses in school, I was 100% not gonna let my clever brain sit idle as my poor AF upbringing cost me another educational opportunity.

        Fuck the Man, I crave knowledge and pursue it like it’s a civil right.

        (FWIW, why it isn’t is kinda essential to this whole thread’s point, IMHO.}

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      18 hours ago

      Our Apple User Group received a letter from Bill Gates back in the 1980s admonishing people for pirating his compiler. It was hilariously badly done.

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        16 hours ago

        How shamelessly ironic of him. 🤣🖕🏼

        (Get fucked by an undead horde, Gates. You’re trying to be the Democrat among oligarchs —which hasn’t aged well at all, ya pedo.)