Legendary scammer Dave.
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2026
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I used to write and sell shareware circa 2000. I got annoyed at cracked versions of my software showing up without fail a day or two after I released stuff, so one time I wrote and released an app named "Magic Text Box" which was nothing but a form with a big text box on it. It didn't do anything at all and it didn't even have any kind of protection on it. Two days later somebody released a cracked version of it. To this day I still do not understand how that person had nothing better to do.
When someone releases a “crack” of software that doesn’t need a crack, it’s normally just injected with malware to catch the script kiddies.
I am tempted to find that thing but sadly google is not that accurate anymore.
I can't even find my own real apps, let alone Magic Text Box.
just write em again, because magic txt box sounds fun!
We were all having fun back then.
this is my favorite from this artist. makes me chuckle every time
It's funny how I wasn't reading this in an accent until torrent offers him crack, now all the sudden they're Australian!
Dude….. me to…… a lil like Donny the Sasquatch vibe
Funny how they say how long it would take to download the ISO. Back then sneakernet was our preferred means of sailing the highs seas. In the before before times this meant going to a mate (or a mate of a mate of a dude who used to live next door to my cousin) with a stack of floppies and copying over everything you needed. Later when floppies got cheap, so you would ask for stuff and through multiple friends of friends you'd get a floppy handed over. Put it in your pocket and then run home to try out the new goods.
Later CD burning at home became a thing and CDs were already cheap. You'd show up at some dudes place, he'd have a bunch of CD spindles setup and machines for copying stuff. You'd give some of the software you had for him to copy and receive a bunch of CDs back. They usually had three kinds of CDs, the super premium ones he'd use for a master copy. The nice ones reserved for good folk and the spindles of the crappy ones which were good enough for most things. It was always a trade off between cost and quality, where crappy quality could mean failed burns which wasted time. Some people had special rigs setup for multiple copying at the same time, but the evil buffer underrun error was always lurking in the background.
My first messages on gmail in 2004 (when it was invite only) was discussing with friends to bulk order CD-R's at 34 pennies a piece, including jewelcase. We felt like kings.
fuck, all this talk of spindles and jewelcases makes me feel old.
throw in a little lightscribe and we can get the band back together.. for old time's sake
DDTPV-TXMX7-BBGJ9-WGY8K-B9GHM
I will be 100 years old and trying to remember my own social security number, and all I'll be able to come up with is this goddamn thing. I can already see it.
Is that the unlock all windows one?
No, it's specifically for Windows 2000. That should about tell you how useful it will be at this point, or really any point in the foreseeable future.
J3QQ4 is rather famous where I live...
Me sending in Keygen:
I loved it when the keygen apps played music and did visual effects I’d never seen before.
Somehow mod trackers had the keygen market completely cornered. Perhaps because of the small file size, since they used one sample multiple times.
I don't know how keygen music isn't 90% jungle, seeing as that's the premiere genre of tracker composition.
It was a wild time
Doraleous and Associates vibes
Very punny.
haha. I STILL have that key memorised, almost 30 years later.