Cabel Sasser on Nostr: just had a sudden 90’s memory of lists of random anonymous FTP servers at ...
just had a sudden 90’s memory of lists of random anonymous FTP servers at universities that had tons of pirated software hidden in preposterous file paths. like, you’d log in and cd into “. /. /. /…../warez/“ or whatever. they’d work until the sysadmin figured it out.
does anyone else remember this? was it all a dream?
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