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Literally hacking. Lots of shareware games wanted a registration code, but after changing the right offsets in the hex editor you could play them without registration code...

People have no clue about computers, till they can manually convert between assembly and hex code

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Actually, real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand.

I thought they use butterflies.

There's an Emacs macro for that.

I actually got these somewhat obscure references immediately: https://xkcd.com/378/

still very funny

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