• nitrolife@hikki.team
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    When I first entered the internet, I think I was looking for essays for school or university. I don’t remember exactly whether I had finished school or had already entered institute. It was the era of dial-up and modems. The internet was damn expensive, so I had about an hour a day. A few years later, I found Ragnarok Online in the expanses of the web and used to hang out there at night, because tariffs like “all night for 3 bucks” appeared. Although it was still expensive.

    And also, a friend and I once set up a dial-up to dial-up bridge and played some games for free that I don’t even remember anymore. It was a fun time. I even had to scavenge a warez Windows XP preview from the market because it had the ability to set up a modem pool out of the box. I remember not understanding how to activate it because it was the first Windows with online activation, and I called the Microsoft Russia line with a pirated key. Ahaha. It’s still funny to this day. It turned out there was just a crack on the disc.