where can i pay now? so i'll have it first!

[CheezBoy]

[Moose or Chuck]

[Paul]

[CheezBoy]

[CheezBoy]

[Paul]

[Moose or Chuck]

[sickman2o0o]

[Moose or Chuck]

[Malmer]

[Dan East]

I thought warez originated back in the days of the cave-man, when primitive computers used large slabs of granite with holes carved into them to represent "bits" of data. Two rival programmers got into a fight over a particular piece of granite ("program rights" ), and the real author bashed the competitor in the head with the program in question. When the looser got back to his cave he realized that he had a perfect inverse-relief impression of the program permanently ingrained in his Scalp. He then called his friends over, who could then make clay castings of his head so they could find the answer to 1 + 1 on their own computer - without having paid for the software. Undoubtedly a dark day in human history, rivaling that infamous day when Bill Gates bought the source code to a certain lame implementation of DOS, which he then proceeded to sell to IBM.<br><br>An excerpt from the book "Neanderthal Programming Algorithms by Daniel East.<br><br>Dan East<br>

[Paul]

not new.

[Malmer]

dan you're always the best. And I post too much...disconnecting and doing some Ag work...

[Moose or Chuck]

I'm serious about my answer to when did warez start. But all it is is stealing, so that goes back to Dan's example, except the people had meat, not granite.<br><br>Why do all these peeps have to be cool and use acronyms and things. Let's just call it Argentum.

[randall]

It's the atomic symbol for Argentum.<br><br>I don't think Moose's answer is where Warez originated. Do you even know what the original concept of WAREZ is? (no it isn't FREE software).