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Trip Back on Memory Lane – Part 3 – IBM OS/2 and My BBS Tech History

Welcome to part 3 of my mini-series “Trip Back on Memory Lane“. This segment will talk about the 32bit operating system OS2 Warp by IBM, but also about the history of my bulleting board system “Closed Society”. ?? Backup Link to Video on Vimeo.com Download Video in AVI format at Mediafire.com Note: Correction to one […]


Trip Back on Memory Lane – Part 2 – PCBoard BBS Software

Welcome to part 2 of my mini-series “Trip Back on Memory Lane“. This part is about the famous bulletin board?? software called “PCBoard” by Clark Development Company, Inc. Backup Link to Video on Vimeo Download this video in AVI format from Mediafire.com Part 2 – PCBoard Bulletin Board System by Clark Development I am a […]


Trip Back on Memory Lane – Summary and Intro

Welcome to my mini-series “Trip Back on Memory Lane“. Make sure to keep tissues handy and enjoy a trip back to times when the computer world was still “intact” and a lot of fun. I hope to bring back some enjoyable memories back for one or the other of you. I will go beyond the […]


FILE_ID.DIZ Stories… A Trip Down Memory Lane

I remember the days when there was no such thing as “file_id.diz” and users had to enter a description for every single file that you uploaded manually. A pain in the ass and often causing poor descriptions of your file directory, because most users (especially in the “Warez Scene” or “Software Pirates Scene“) did not […]


Software Piracy, Abandonware and Today’s Messed up Copyright Laws

I was browsing in the Defacto2.net document archive of the PC scene and found a reference to an interesting article written by Stephen Granade titled “Warez, Abandonware, and the Software Industry“. The article discusses in detail the subjects software piracy, copyright with a few on it from a perspective of a new type of software […]

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