Mages & Modems

A Childhood Well-Wasted in the Golden Age of Personal Computers, Games, and Internet Piracy

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Langue : anglais

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ISBN :
978-1-06-998851-5
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ACME Detective Agency

Dear Detective #0294,

As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years.

Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to:

  • IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy
  • MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX
  • NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85
  • Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs
  • Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts
  • Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line

... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent.

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