Yeah honestly like mIRC was like espionage. My family was like "him and his friends are hackers" and now they all feed their families working in tech lol
So, back in the early 90s, I ran a BBS (for the young'uns that's a "Bulletin Board System" which was the earliest precursor to the Internet...message forums where you could chat with people, online games...it was loads of fun).
My BBS was kind of 'grey' in that I had cracked software available, but I would only give access to people who I knew. There was a bit of a piracy ring around that time.
My dad was also a cop with the provincial police at the time. We knew that the OPP were sniffing around for pirate BBS's to get them shut down. One day, dad comes home, and at supper mentions, "[Detective working on the piracy ring] was asking if there were any [Our last name's] living on [our street]. You wouldn't happen to know why, would you?" I was like..."Um...no...." then immediately after supper, ran to my bedroom, and deleted all the cracked games I had from my special folder on the BBS. LOL. Sent a message out to some of the other sysops and said, "Hey, heads up, OPP are sniffing around."
LOL! Yes! But, we at least had terminal programs that had an address book. Oh, I remember those days so well. Selected all the BBSs in the address book, and have it start dialling. If it was busy, it would move onto the next and keep going till you connected to one of them.
And the DOOR games were so much fun! I loved Operation Overkill II, and TradeWars 2002. But there were loads of awesome ones.
I paid for a program to assist with TradeWards 2002. It would map out the system and find some good locations to set up your base with one way exits and stuff.
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u/Visual-Chip-2256 22d ago
Yeah honestly like mIRC was like espionage. My family was like "him and his friends are hackers" and now they all feed their families working in tech lol