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While the IBM PC computer system was released during the middle of 1981, it would be the Commodore and Apple pirate scenes which would introduce many of the standards that today we take as granted.
During these times the PC scene was small and fragmented.
There were the occasional small groups and often not individuals releasing and cracking.
But these cracked programs usually only ever remained in the community local to person cracking them.
The national and then eventually international PC scene did not take off until 1987.
This was when people started to trade software with cracks over longer distances, and overseas.
This act eventually lead to the formation of the now old school PC Bulletin Board System scene.
Quoted from the article 'Online Software Piracy of the Last Millennium'
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TSAN |
1984-1992 |
1682 |
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ESP |
1986-1988 |
1316 |
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5-O |
1986-1988 |
789 |
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BCC |
1987-1988 |
1211 |
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CPI |
1987-1990 |
2481 |
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NYC |
1987-1989 |
992 |
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NAP/PA |
1987-1990 |
826 |
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PTL |
1987-1989 |
2015 |
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$PRINT |
1988-1989 |
853 |
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BSP |
1988-1989 |
2305 |
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CIA |
1988 |
1308 |
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KGB |
1988 |
637 |
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TGC |
1988 |
1045 |
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TNWC |
1988 |
1023 |
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CPC2001 |
1989 |
789 |
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FFA |
1989-1990 |
951 |
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INC |
1989-1993 |
4551 |
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NEUA |
1989-1991 |
1480 |
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TDT |
1989-1994 & 1995 & 1996 |
2568 |
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FIRM |
1989-1990 & 1992 & 1994 |
2557 |
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THG |
1989-1995 |
3233 |
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TRIAD |
1989-1990 |
1221 |
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UGC |
1989 |
864 |
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NTA |
1990-1995 |
1039 |
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PE |
1990-1993 |
1915 |
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PE/TRSI/TDT |
1990 |
941 |
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CRUE |
1991 |
968 |
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FLT |
1991-1994 & 1998-2007 |
8252 |
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FCC |
1991-1992 |
1105 |
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PIL |
1991-1995 |
816 |
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RZR |
1991-2004 & 2006-2007 |
14763 |
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SKID |
1991 & 1993 |
4294 |
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SKILL |
1991-1993 |
1063 |
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TARJAN |
1991 |
764 |
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TDT-TRSI |
1991 |
1233 |
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TRSI |
1991-1995 |
2546 |
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USA/FLT |
1991-1992 |
2124 |
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MAL |
1992-1999 |
1301 |
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PWA |
1992-2000 |
2992 |
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PYR |
1992-1993 |
879 |
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RBL |
1992-2002 |
1307 |
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VC |
1992-1998 |
983 |
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DOD |
1993-2001 |
18205 |
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HV |
1993-1994 |
1184 |
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HBD |
1993-1998 |
1895 |
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NXS |
1993-1994 |
994 |
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PDX |
1993-1994 & 2004 |
2013 |
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PTG |
1993-1994 |
1642 |
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PC |
1993-2005 |
3368 |
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RISC |
1993-2005 |
1377 |
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SCX |
1993 |
981 |
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SCOTCH |
1993-1994 & 2000-2004 |
1010 |
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UNT |
1993 |
994 |
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2KAD |
1994-2000 |
1210 |
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DNX |
1994-1996 |
1062 |
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ECL |
1994-1995 |
1548 |
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GNS |
1994-1995 |
1563 |
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LGD |
1994 |
988 |
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MV8 |
1994-2006 |
1137 |
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RISE |
1994-2006 |
1336 |
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TDU |
1994-1995 |
1367 |
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TRN |
1994-1996 |
780 |
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UCF |
1994-2005 |
2300 |
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FATE |
1995-1999 |
1073 |
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HLM |
1995-1996 & 2004-2005 |
5649 |
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PSG |
1995-1997 & 1999-2000 |
1404 |
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QTX |
1995-1998 & 2006-2007 |
1156 |
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ROR |
1995-1996 |
1035 |
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ROM |
1995-1996 |
1054 |
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SDM |
1995-1998 |
1650 |
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BLH |
1996-2004 |
2053 |
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DD |
1996-2000 |
746 |
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GLOW |
1996-2000 |
1036 |
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NPM |
1996 |
1422 |
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PDM |
1996-2000 |
2000 |
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RLX |
1996-1998 |
1132 |
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SHOCK |
1996-2006 |
1735 |
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SPA |
1996-1998 |
393 |
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CIFE |
1997-2000 |
904 |
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CLS |
1997-2004 |
4578 |
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CORE |
1997-2005 |
3861 |
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DVN |
1997-2006 |
2334 |
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OGN |
1997-2000 |
1355 |
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ISO |
1998-2002 |
861 |
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TF |
1998-2000 |
416 |
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TNT |
1998-2008 |
212 |
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DEVIANCE |
1999-2006 |
9177 |
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ORN |
1999-2005 |
2045 |
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MYTH |
2000-2005 |
4896 |
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IMMERSION |
2001-2004 |
1105 |
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RLD |
2004-2007 |
3376 |
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VGC |
2004-2005 |
2525 |
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VTY |
2005-2007 |
2180 |
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DTN |
2006-2008 |
241 |
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HTD |
2006-2007 |
1571 |
There are 19 archived scene web sites |
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Snapshot: 1997
Werner & Tardy's dupe check was quite popular during it's time. Operated by Werner & Tardy who were also famous for leading the legendary TDU-Jam, Pentagram and Genesis.
Snapshot: 26th December 1997
Hybrid were one of the earlier groups to create a website, though it was often bare of any information. This copy unfortunately lacks graphics.
Snapshot: 20th April 1997
A very early web site for the Relativity electronic magazine.
Snapshot: 1998
Level 4 was a lesser known utility group founded by Madboy that was around during the 1997-1998 period.
Snapshot: 3rd January 1998
The main Relativity magazine web site. No awards for art design here!
Snapshot: 5th January 1998
Sodom was a small time utility group that was well known for releasing Novell titles and creating the Defacto electronic magazine.
Snapshot: 4th November 1998
Our web site was hacked once during it's earlier days. We never found out who did it or why. Other then it seemed to be some disgruntled kid who couldn't get access to the scene.
Snapshot: 27th March 1998
This is MuadDlb's personal page. Mainly rambles on about his magazine Relativity and the universal electronic magazine api he created for the scene.
Snapshot: 1st April 1998
Courier weekly report card aka CWS was a long running courier chart magazine from the late 1990s. This website was created in the early days of the magazine's life.
Snapshot: 16th August 1998
Motiv8 was a training ground for many an early courier.
Snapshot: 8th September 1998
This is an early version of our web site when we also operated a scene news service, a small scene archives and an art group.
Snapshot: 1st April 1999
Just The Facts was a chart magazine from Class. Coded by their famous Windows coder ATM, the magazine used this webpage as a primary means of distribution.
Snapshot: 26th September 1999
Now Defacto2 has split up into three groups. The front page is pretty ugly and is nothing more then a web host for the groups and various other pages.
Snapshot: 3rd September 1999
This was a web page created for Fairlight by our former Design Division. Unfortunately at the last moment the project was canned by the Fairlight leadership and it was never put into use.
Snapshot: 2000
Shock is a very well known application and utility group that during it's earlier days used to run a popular web site.
Snapshot: 11th July 2000
Again a very bland front page that hosts various web sites dedicated to various different projects.
Snapshot: 31st January 2001
Rebels had a few web sites online during their time thanks to the numerous areas and computer formats the brand worked on. This edition was easily the most popular though.
Snapshot: 17th March 2001
Some people have always had bad reputations on the scene. Some of them even spawn their own legion of haters. And in this case, Ice (of Origin/Myth fame) even had a website dedicated to him.
Snapshot: 1st July 2002
Razor 1911 were one of the first groups on the scene to launch a web site. Though this version is one of their later web publications.
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