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[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 years ago (18 children)

You could do it with one copy probably. But this was pre-internet so harder to know about the glitches and such.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (15 children)

The internet 100% existed in 1999 lol

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Yeah but not a lot of people actually had it, let alone a computer.

[–] AtomicPurple@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not to mention that useful information was harder to find and more difficult to verify, especially for niche technical topics like the inner workings of specific games.

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