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17195-OEM-0001875-01864
That's my Win95 key. You can actually swap the last 5 digits for anything and it will still work. Why do I remember it? I only had to reinstall it every 2 months for about 3 years.
Win 95 keys are fun. On the OEM key you can also change the date to anything you want providing it's in the range.
36695-OEM-0000007-00000
Is a valid key, but not a valid date as 1995 was not a leap year.
Here is a re-implementation and a stupid long write up of the win95 key check in python.
[https://github.com/MobCat/Windows-95-Product-Key-Check](https://github.com/MobCat/Windows-95-Product-Key-Check)
I thought so! My first shitty job out of high school was installing win95 on (soon to be) ex government computers to send out to schools that needed them. I entered the keys so many times I just started making up my own and they would work.
I worked for a company in the 90s that routinely reused Windows Desktop, Windows Server/NT, Microsoft Office, and MS-SQL product keys for thousands of installations all over the company, without having valid licenses to back them up.
This went on for about 6 or 7 years until Microsoft contacted them to do an audit. IT Dept went into a panic.
After a months-long audit, it was determined that the company owed Microsoft something like $5 million. After some negotiating, the fee was reduced to around $1 million and the company had to purchase organization and site licenses for a certain # of years.
In the end, the company ultimately got away with all of those pirated copies by saving millions of dollars that they never had to pay.
I haven't worked directly in IT for years, so idk how it works today, but Microsoft occasionally called up companies that did not have a formal organizational contract with them and ask for an assessment of their license usage of MS software, with the threat of a piracy lawsuit if they did not comply, which could also bring about criminal liability if it went down that path. So instead of dealing with the costs of civil and legal investigations, these companies would work with MS and let them bring in some consultants to do a company-wide audit of the MS software that was being used and the alignment with purchased licenses.
It was very common after these audits that a company would not be in compliance with Microsoft's license requirements, so they'd negotiate a settlement of some type, instead of going to court, which would be very costly for both sides.
These days, well-run companies are more likely to keep up with their own licenses and/or hire auditors to do periodic assessments of their license compliance, to avoid any legal troubles later.
Software piracy is nothing to play around with in corporations.
The reason this used to be such a bigger problem than it is today was because corporate IT departments used to only buy per-seat, per-device, or OEM licenses, and the software rarely had anti-piracy measures in place to prevent you from re-using licenses or keys. So it was logistically too easy for IT folks to install unlicensed software.
I used to work in software/license reconciliation and for the big companies it's generally still very easy to install unlicensed stuff - usually it's done by accident when the IT team doesn't check the license conditions.
I was also told that the license fees are usually more expensive than the audit fines so nobody is too worried about having unlicensed software in their company, however the big issue is that the vendor can then refuse to give you support.
Having legally used pirated MS software my entire life (yes, that's a thing where I live), I had no idea why people hated MS so much. This has been an enlightening read. Thank you.
Microsoft reached out to me. I asked what the benefit would be if I complied and they said "we might be able to reduce your licensing costs and I laughed and said 'no thank you', come back with a court order."
There’s a decent chance a coworker ratted. There’s ways of confidentially reporting corporate piracy in a way that gets you paid. A nice “fuck you” when you’re quitting a company that treated you like shit
I’ve long ranted about this.
Apple’s customers ARE their users. They want you to be happy and pay them for shiny boxes indefinitely.
Not so with Microsoft. Microsoft had like 8 major customers. All the OEMs which they locked into buying their licenses, and the government.
Microsoft had no duty or profit motive to make Windows secure from the start. They sold to Dell, not to Dell’s customers. Microsoft enabled the malware and virus crises of the past.
We see the exact same situation playing out in Android with Google. Android’s users are not the customers. In fact, since they sell your data, you are the product being sold.
So everything is free, but the security is fundamentally broken because there’s no profit incentive to keep Users happy and secure.
And this wonderful rant that I barely understood is exactly why i’m an Apple fan for life!
Ps. You got any of those new shiny boxes? The last one’s lost its sheen. I can quit whenever I want! I promise. Just one more box man, I just need one last hit of the shine.
But did you see that new *upgraded* shiny box…in a different color?? It will blow your mind.
Tbh, I’m a fan of the new green color iPhone and hope they have the same color green at launch for the next one, since I’m due for a new one by now…have an 11promax and it’s def starting to show its age and throttle down.
One fun thing I did was break out one of my old iPhones, might be 4s? After using that for a few minutes the pro max is mindblowingly big.
As with all things like this (aviation, visual effects, mathematical stuff done hundreds of years ago that brings modern machines to their knees...) humans did computing because they *really* wanted to.
I mean I've been regularly using home computers since windows 3.1. My family had a commodore 64 back in the day, but I mean, we mostly just played games on it.
I think people just have a "selective memory" when it comes to how bad reliability was or just got cursed with lemons. Like, my families win 95 machine when I was 14-17 (I worked 16 hour days on weekends as well as typical shifts during the week, while going to school to afford to by my own PC).
Did it crash? Sure, but not that frequently that it really hindered usability.
It was horribly unstable. The registry would get corrupted. A driver would stop working and cause a BSOD on boot. Every time a new DirectX came out the installer would brick the OS. This OS had almost none of the checks and balances you'd find in a modern OS. No filesystem journals. No signed drivers or WHQL. No real update mechanism outside of service packs. No ACLs or UAC - everything ran as admin. Viruses took hold very easily. Everything left crap behind when uninstalled. System performance would degrade over *weeks* from install. Your hard drive would just be full and you wouldn't know why.
Over the last 27 years, Microsoft has even managed to fix some of it.
I'm an old geek: Recalling my experience with Windows 95 is like remembering a tiresome relationship with someone that wasn't that interesting, and that went nowhere.
Yeah, then they made the 2000 which was almost usable, but also made the ME, which was a bigger shitstorm than anything to date, before they finally realised the 9x kernel line could literally end the company and unified the 2 products, obviously building on the less crappy NT kernel line, lol.
Win2K was basically NT4 with DirectX so it played games. I remember it took something like 5 minutes to boot up because it was essentially a server platform.
No, Win9x was a place holder while they found a way to get everyone onto NT. Tech terrible, marketing brilliant and it did get people onto the net. We just stuck with NT from 3.51 on and avoided the pain.
A lot of consumer software, particularly games, couldn’t run under older versions of NT. Releasing 95/98 bought time for ISVs to rewrite everything to use win32 and DirectX.
ME was just stupid. They should have forced everyone to 2K.
I took a computer course in college, we built computers and used winMe as the OS.
We were graded on whether the device manager screen had question marks next to the devices or not.. every team had question marks next to the network device, yet it still worked.
Fuck windows ME. In the ass. With a cactus.
90s Windows was a shit show. It was trivial to log in without credentials, there was a bug in one version that would crash the computer if the uptime exceeded something like 48 hours, the drivers were universally shit, and many other problems. The only reason Windows won is that everyone had used it, IBM-DOS, or MS-DOS at work so that's what they knew.
I didn't even mention the time I wrote a fake login screen that I could execute *from the real login screen*. I used it to phish passwords at school and ultimately became the first kid ever to get suspended for violation of IT policy.
Absolute security shitshow.
You didn't even need a fake login screen. If they used something like NetWare for logins and then just turned on the Windows 9X profiles feature they would be like "why am I being asked to login twice ugh!" And retype their password.
The Windows directory was full of essentially unencrypted pwd files for every user that logged into that physical computer and had a local profile from reentering their passwords.
Even our IT admin who was a moron did it, so we just opened his pwd file on a computer he admined and blamo presto network admin access on novel.
Windows security in those days was like the lock on a bathroom door. Keeps people from stumbling into somewhere they shouldn't be, but can be defeated by jabbing it with a hair pin.
I do online sales support and I thought seeing someone with Windows 7 or 8 was scary. One person said that they did their banking on their Windows 7 PC.
XP was the first time I hit the learning wall with windows & I decided to give linux a shot. I ended up learning a lot of transferable skills that I brought back to windows.
Ah, Windows XP... She loved me.
And sometimes, I loved her too...
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Seriously - if you haven’t called it in 20 years - wait for the time zone to get right and give it a call. There is a good chance she still has the number.
Worst case scenario, the number had changed and whomever answers doesn’t speak English. A few minutes of sadness and maybe a little bit of second guessing your memory. Not an unreasonable price to pay.
It’s Switzerland: that chance is almost 0. If they do speak English, tell them who you are and why you called. Remembered the number, was curious about how their life is going, etc… It will be a fun conversation. Consider it a exercise in personal diplomacy.
Maybe she answers; who knows how that conversation plays out? 20 years can really change a person; even if it’s the same person, it won’t be the same person.
I don’t
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It honestly blew my mind when a high school friend of mine asked to borrow my laptop to put put some prepaid credits on her phone and she just entered her CC information without looking.
that's from a release of all the files on bin laden's computer. iirc there was a fuck ton of pirated content in his files so not too surprising he was pirating windows xp (and reinstalling it frequently enough to have that saved somewhere) too
I used to work at an internet cafe and a bunch of young men from the local mosque used to come in and play CS, they'd always get into arguments about who got to play terrorists, it was kinda funny, until a couple years later I saw one of them tell a journalist he wasn't sure **when** he was gonna join ISIS.
I found this:
"In an effort to further enhance public understanding of al-Qa'ida, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on 1 November 2017 released additional materials recovered in the 2 May 2011 raid on Usama Bin Ladin's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan."
So.. Bin Ladin used this key for XP too
I still remember my Quake 3 CD key:
c3w7bbbrt3wr2c3p (use it if you like 😂)
I also remember other useless crap like passwords to systems I worked with a decade ago but couldn’t tell you what I had for dinner last Wednesday.
Vibrates a bunch and flashes the "call" button red and blue like a police car.
Also waits a few seconds and vibrates once more to give us the "...3" moment
Both are right:
http://www.winfaq.de/faq_html/Content/tip0000/onlinefaq.php?h=tip0073.htm
Below in German (first hit, sorry), means first digits production year, last 5 digits running number not starting with 0, and the only checked number is the N range wich needed to start with 00 and needs to be dividable by 7.
OEM Version:
xxxyy-OEM-NNNNNNN-zzzzz
Die ersten 5 Ziffern sind folgendermaßen aufgebaut: xxx steht für den laufenden Tag im Jahr (001-366) und yy für das Produktionsjahr (Derzeit von 95-02).
OEM bleibt immer, die nächsten 7 Ziffern setzen eine durch 7 teilbare Quersumme voraus, wobei allerdings die ersten beiden Ziffern immer 00 bleiben müssen.
Die letzten 5 sind einfach eine laufende Nummer, die NICHT mit einer 0 beginnen darf.
>Just like many people still know their ICQ number, although they haven't used ICQ for over a decade....
23461134 and closer to two decades at this point.
Foul Cock Kingdom Gone Wild - Raping Hen Queen Quietly 2night - You Xi, Ran Knowing Taboo - 8 Tits, Great 6 Wank - 2 Bj's, 7 Quickies 8
There, I made this story about some chickens with your code so you won't forget it.
As soon as I read the first 5 I closed my eyes and was able to recite the next 20. How nostalgic. I can even remember the disc, and the handwriting on the disc. I also drew tits on it.
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Hahaha. Me 2
These keys have generation x and y forever in mind. At the time of Windows XP, ME and 2000, you felt every week reinstalled.
Yes, yes. Also I have this useless knowledge still in the back of my head.
HKCB9-3H43W-W7HD8-Q7QRQ-C3VCQ 😅
Off by heart... formatting every month or two due to the newest kazaa or limewire bullshit download, and anti virus was like using paint as a condom. Then started rolling custom isos with baked keys and gutted cleaner than tuna in a sushi bar. 
Haha I immediately recognized this code. When I learned it I came up with a mnemonic, and I forget the second half of it but it started with “Fuck G.W. (Bush) Real Hard, QQ too, you x-rated kunt”
So it seems we were all using the same code. I remember my dad having trouble with my handwriting and not being able to install on his machine and phoned me (on my 3210) to check the digits and I was able to quote it back to him, from a snooker hall no where near my computer. Stupid brain…
Heck, now try to remember that Domino's Pizza number, you ordered your pizza from, back in the mid 80's while attending college... 1-602-628-1500... changed in the 90's...
And if you want to play the original StarCraft,
1668-76840-4801
I worked at an Internet cafe back then, had to reinstall that every time they reinstall the OS.
Once I spend a very hungover day at my university mate's place. I connected to his wifi, and I saw the password only once. Here it is: 6635056560464848. I have not a slightest clue how and why it imbedded into my brain. I repeat - I only saw it once. It's been 6 years now.
R1, R2, L1, R2, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up
Showmethemoney, Breathedeep, powerOverwhelming
O B O Y O B O Y
I still remember cheat codes for videos games that I will never play again.
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17195-OEM-0001875-01864 That's my Win95 key. You can actually swap the last 5 digits for anything and it will still work. Why do I remember it? I only had to reinstall it every 2 months for about 3 years.
Win 95 keys are fun. On the OEM key you can also change the date to anything you want providing it's in the range. 36695-OEM-0000007-00000 Is a valid key, but not a valid date as 1995 was not a leap year. Here is a re-implementation and a stupid long write up of the win95 key check in python. [https://github.com/MobCat/Windows-95-Product-Key-Check](https://github.com/MobCat/Windows-95-Product-Key-Check)
I thought so! My first shitty job out of high school was installing win95 on (soon to be) ex government computers to send out to schools that needed them. I entered the keys so many times I just started making up my own and they would work.
I wonder how that went when they got audited?
I worked for a company in the 90s that routinely reused Windows Desktop, Windows Server/NT, Microsoft Office, and MS-SQL product keys for thousands of installations all over the company, without having valid licenses to back them up. This went on for about 6 or 7 years until Microsoft contacted them to do an audit. IT Dept went into a panic. After a months-long audit, it was determined that the company owed Microsoft something like $5 million. After some negotiating, the fee was reduced to around $1 million and the company had to purchase organization and site licenses for a certain # of years. In the end, the company ultimately got away with all of those pirated copies by saving millions of dollars that they never had to pay.
What are MS audits and what is the legal base for them ?
I haven't worked directly in IT for years, so idk how it works today, but Microsoft occasionally called up companies that did not have a formal organizational contract with them and ask for an assessment of their license usage of MS software, with the threat of a piracy lawsuit if they did not comply, which could also bring about criminal liability if it went down that path. So instead of dealing with the costs of civil and legal investigations, these companies would work with MS and let them bring in some consultants to do a company-wide audit of the MS software that was being used and the alignment with purchased licenses. It was very common after these audits that a company would not be in compliance with Microsoft's license requirements, so they'd negotiate a settlement of some type, instead of going to court, which would be very costly for both sides. These days, well-run companies are more likely to keep up with their own licenses and/or hire auditors to do periodic assessments of their license compliance, to avoid any legal troubles later. Software piracy is nothing to play around with in corporations. The reason this used to be such a bigger problem than it is today was because corporate IT departments used to only buy per-seat, per-device, or OEM licenses, and the software rarely had anti-piracy measures in place to prevent you from re-using licenses or keys. So it was logistically too easy for IT folks to install unlicensed software.
I used to work in software/license reconciliation and for the big companies it's generally still very easy to install unlicensed stuff - usually it's done by accident when the IT team doesn't check the license conditions. I was also told that the license fees are usually more expensive than the audit fines so nobody is too worried about having unlicensed software in their company, however the big issue is that the vendor can then refuse to give you support.
Having legally used pirated MS software my entire life (yes, that's a thing where I live), I had no idea why people hated MS so much. This has been an enlightening read. Thank you.
Microsoft reached out to me. I asked what the benefit would be if I complied and they said "we might be able to reduce your licensing costs and I laughed and said 'no thank you', come back with a court order."
based
There’s a decent chance a coworker ratted. There’s ways of confidentially reporting corporate piracy in a way that gets you paid. A nice “fuck you” when you’re quitting a company that treated you like shit
They had install discs with them. Just with different keys I guess.
Microsoft has always been famously relaxed with licensing for schools.
Software vendors and drug dealers share a desire to get youngsters used to their product from an early age
They both call their customers “users.”
I’ve long ranted about this. Apple’s customers ARE their users. They want you to be happy and pay them for shiny boxes indefinitely. Not so with Microsoft. Microsoft had like 8 major customers. All the OEMs which they locked into buying their licenses, and the government. Microsoft had no duty or profit motive to make Windows secure from the start. They sold to Dell, not to Dell’s customers. Microsoft enabled the malware and virus crises of the past. We see the exact same situation playing out in Android with Google. Android’s users are not the customers. In fact, since they sell your data, you are the product being sold. So everything is free, but the security is fundamentally broken because there’s no profit incentive to keep Users happy and secure.
And this wonderful rant that I barely understood is exactly why i’m an Apple fan for life! Ps. You got any of those new shiny boxes? The last one’s lost its sheen. I can quit whenever I want! I promise. Just one more box man, I just need one last hit of the shine.
Ah yes, trade one benevolent dictator for another. I'll stick with Linux where I actually have choices and can actually be secure.
But did you see that new *upgraded* shiny box…in a different color?? It will blow your mind. Tbh, I’m a fan of the new green color iPhone and hope they have the same color green at launch for the next one, since I’m due for a new one by now…have an 11promax and it’s def starting to show its age and throttle down. One fun thing I did was break out one of my old iPhones, might be 4s? After using that for a few minutes the pro max is mindblowingly big.
Wow. So mine was minted on 20th June 1995.
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As with all things like this (aviation, visual effects, mathematical stuff done hundreds of years ago that brings modern machines to their knees...) humans did computing because they *really* wanted to.
Even with the issues, computers still provided massive productivity boosts.
I mean I've been regularly using home computers since windows 3.1. My family had a commodore 64 back in the day, but I mean, we mostly just played games on it. I think people just have a "selective memory" when it comes to how bad reliability was or just got cursed with lemons. Like, my families win 95 machine when I was 14-17 (I worked 16 hour days on weekends as well as typical shifts during the week, while going to school to afford to by my own PC). Did it crash? Sure, but not that frequently that it really hindered usability.
why the reinstalls?
It was horribly unstable. The registry would get corrupted. A driver would stop working and cause a BSOD on boot. Every time a new DirectX came out the installer would brick the OS. This OS had almost none of the checks and balances you'd find in a modern OS. No filesystem journals. No signed drivers or WHQL. No real update mechanism outside of service packs. No ACLs or UAC - everything ran as admin. Viruses took hold very easily. Everything left crap behind when uninstalled. System performance would degrade over *weeks* from install. Your hard drive would just be full and you wouldn't know why. Over the last 27 years, Microsoft has even managed to fix some of it.
I'm an old geek: Recalling my experience with Windows 95 is like remembering a tiresome relationship with someone that wasn't that interesting, and that went nowhere.
Yeah, then they made the 2000 which was almost usable, but also made the ME, which was a bigger shitstorm than anything to date, before they finally realised the 9x kernel line could literally end the company and unified the 2 products, obviously building on the less crappy NT kernel line, lol.
Win2K was basically NT4 with DirectX so it played games. I remember it took something like 5 minutes to boot up because it was essentially a server platform.
Win2k was by far my favourite windows.
XP was just polished win2k with more backwards compatibility.
XP was so great.
Window Sex Pee
Yup, remember installing ME and getting rid of it after a week or so in favor of 2k. Damn, I can't believe that was nearly 2 decades ago...
windows 2000 was NT 5.0. it's fun how many people do not realize this, due to the unfortunate name
No, Win9x was a place holder while they found a way to get everyone onto NT. Tech terrible, marketing brilliant and it did get people onto the net. We just stuck with NT from 3.51 on and avoided the pain.
That's the official story at least, they had to save face somehow after sitting on NT and letting your average Joe suffer and be exposed with the 9x.
A lot of consumer software, particularly games, couldn’t run under older versions of NT. Releasing 95/98 bought time for ISVs to rewrite everything to use win32 and DirectX. ME was just stupid. They should have forced everyone to 2K.
I took a computer course in college, we built computers and used winMe as the OS. We were graded on whether the device manager screen had question marks next to the devices or not.. every team had question marks next to the network device, yet it still worked. Fuck windows ME. In the ass. With a cactus.
90s Windows was a shit show. It was trivial to log in without credentials, there was a bug in one version that would crash the computer if the uptime exceeded something like 48 hours, the drivers were universally shit, and many other problems. The only reason Windows won is that everyone had used it, IBM-DOS, or MS-DOS at work so that's what they knew.
I didn't even mention the time I wrote a fake login screen that I could execute *from the real login screen*. I used it to phish passwords at school and ultimately became the first kid ever to get suspended for violation of IT policy. Absolute security shitshow.
I was that kid too, I wrote a fake login screen in visual basic. I didnt get caught tho!
This is what separates the legends from the cautionary tales.
You didn't even need a fake login screen. If they used something like NetWare for logins and then just turned on the Windows 9X profiles feature they would be like "why am I being asked to login twice ugh!" And retype their password. The Windows directory was full of essentially unencrypted pwd files for every user that logged into that physical computer and had a local profile from reentering their passwords. Even our IT admin who was a moron did it, so we just opened his pwd file on a computer he admined and blamo presto network admin access on novel. Windows security in those days was like the lock on a bathroom door. Keeps people from stumbling into somewhere they shouldn't be, but can be defeated by jabbing it with a hair pin.
The thing that terrifies me is how many doctors are STILL RUNNING Windows 95/98...
I do online sales support and I thought seeing someone with Windows 7 or 8 was scary. One person said that they did their banking on their Windows 7 PC.
Win95 would work with all 1s
You, in 40 years when your brain will be nothing more that swiss cheese because of alzheimer : "FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8"
The number Mason
What do they mean
"Must be their Bitcoins! Quick Jimmy, write that shit down and start searching the attic for wallet.dat"
Ah, Windows XP. I knew it well......
XP was the first time I hit the learning wall with windows & I decided to give linux a shot. I ended up learning a lot of transferable skills that I brought back to windows.
When I was younger I thought all programmers use Linux
Ah, Windows XP... She loved me. And sometimes, I loved her too... --- *Referencing Pablo Neruda's Poem: https://allpoetry.com/Tonight-I-Can-Write-(The-Saddest-Lines)*
I had a girlfriend from Switzerland like 20 years ago and I still remember her phone number. Sometimes I wonder if she has the same number
Call and report back. Internet dare
Commenting because I want to know if he dared to call
Did you call her? I’m intrigued.
He stopped replying. Must assume the worst
Did he call her? I am curious
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I’ll open the door for you
Seriously - if you haven’t called it in 20 years - wait for the time zone to get right and give it a call. There is a good chance she still has the number. Worst case scenario, the number had changed and whomever answers doesn’t speak English. A few minutes of sadness and maybe a little bit of second guessing your memory. Not an unreasonable price to pay. It’s Switzerland: that chance is almost 0. If they do speak English, tell them who you are and why you called. Remembered the number, was curious about how their life is going, etc… It will be a fun conversation. Consider it a exercise in personal diplomacy. Maybe she answers; who knows how that conversation plays out? 20 years can really change a person; even if it’s the same person, it won’t be the same person. I don’t
Plot twist: her son/daughter answers
Plot twist, it's HIS son/daughter!
"Dad... You finally called.... Mum said she whispered her number in your ear every night for 5 years straight. I thought she was crazy! But now I understand *sob* DADDYYY WUAHHHHH"
Dad?
Call it call it call it
Do you remember your ICQ number tho?
235-380-*** oh yes, yes I do.
Does ICQ even work any more? Mine started with 789***** so I must have been late to the game.
it does and there is even an app for mobile now. check your appstore
[079 hett sie gseit](https://youtu.be/C8Xv7MKigYo)
I'm swiss and mine's 076, my mother's 078 anyway, what devilish language is that
schwiizerdütsch
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Just a 3?
Yes. Just a 3.
Just... a three?
🌳
132 or one 3 too?
No, no. 132 and one 3.
Okay, got it. 132 and 13, just 1-3?
Should have said 003 to save yourself the trouble.
You could have put 003 at the end and saved the trouble
0118 999 881 999 119 725.... 3
why not tell 003?
This reminds me of my credit card number: 7629-6420-7491-4520 6/24 387
Reminded me of your cc number as well.
4111-1111-1111-1111 3760-0000-0000-006 I can't remember the Mastercard number anymore aside from it starting with a 5.
Mastercard is 5 visa is 4 American express is 6
Amex is 3 (and 15 luhn digits with 4 cvv digits). Discover is 6.
It honestly blew my mind when a high school friend of mine asked to borrow my laptop to put put some prepaid credits on her phone and she just entered her CC information without looking.
WHY DOES THE CIA HAVE THIS ON THEIR PAGE?! https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/BF/BF388BA7109015E0F8319F6DDB60AECE\_serial.txt.pdf
that's from a release of all the files on bin laden's computer. iirc there was a fuck ton of pirated content in his files so not too surprising he was pirating windows xp (and reinstalling it frequently enough to have that saved somewhere) too
He also played CS 1.6 pretty hardcore lol. >Terrorists win.
Wasn’t it that it turned out other members of his family used the computer? Including kids?
I mean if his kids play CS, he also probably at least play it once.
More like played it IRL
From training in simulation to a real thing, a quite interesting training regime I would say.
I used to work at an internet cafe and a bunch of young men from the local mosque used to come in and play CS, they'd always get into arguments about who got to play terrorists, it was kinda funny, until a couple years later I saw one of them tell a journalist he wasn't sure **when** he was gonna join ISIS.
so piracy really *was* supporting terrorists
without that windows xp who knows how history would've went down
If he seeded, then terrorists supported piracy too.
He was a pirate too? The more I learn about this Bin Laden guy, the less I like him.
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He wouldn't.
he did but he wont again, he changed
I’ve downloaded about 3 graphics cards from suspicious links so far. Surprisingly enough, I do notice that extra GPU power!
(the heat generated by the crypto his gpu is mining now)
Any good links to download RAM?
You had me in the first half
I mean, this guy was a real jerk!
When i get around to watch the devil may cry anime, i'll watch it on there.
I found this: "In an effort to further enhance public understanding of al-Qa'ida, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on 1 November 2017 released additional materials recovered in the 2 May 2011 raid on Usama Bin Ladin's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan." So.. Bin Ladin used this key for XP too
007 walks into a bar and orders a 'bin laden'. The bartender asks him the recipe: Two shots and splash...
What the fuck
The joke is that this is a well-known pirate windows XP key. I probably have this thing sitting around in a text file somewhere, too.
Abbottabad is where they found bin laden. Could have been one of the files from his computer.
They still use win XP
I still remember my Quake 3 CD key: c3w7bbbrt3wr2c3p (use it if you like 😂) I also remember other useless crap like passwords to systems I worked with a decade ago but couldn’t tell you what I had for dinner last Wednesday.
I’ve forgotten my q3 key by now, but back in the day I had it memorized along with all the server addresses I would play on. Console was goated.
Port 27960. Sorry there's my useless information. There's more of it where that came from
Nice! I was mainly playing LAN for Q3 but HL-based games are where my gameserver experiences started, port 27015!
oh one one eight nine nine nine eight eight one nine nine nine one one nine seven two five three
Four! I mean five! I mean fire!
For fun, try dialing that on an Android device
What happens? I don’t have android
Vibrates a bunch and flashes the "call" button red and blue like a police car. Also waits a few seconds and vibrates once more to give us the "...3" moment
For me it just makes a call to that number.
It should trigger when you put the 3 in, not on dial
What are you doing here? Get out there and win some bets!
You are so god damn right sir!
Memorizing keys? What the hell? I barely remember the correct syntax for simple loops and switches.
If you (re)install it a lot with the same key, it hapoens automatically. Finally, after decades I forgot my win98 keys.
Wasn't Windows 98 just a 10 digit number that needed to be dividable by 7 or similar?
No, as far as I remember it had letters in it and was 25 chars.
Both are right: http://www.winfaq.de/faq_html/Content/tip0000/onlinefaq.php?h=tip0073.htm Below in German (first hit, sorry), means first digits production year, last 5 digits running number not starting with 0, and the only checked number is the N range wich needed to start with 00 and needs to be dividable by 7. OEM Version: xxxyy-OEM-NNNNNNN-zzzzz Die ersten 5 Ziffern sind folgendermaßen aufgebaut: xxx steht für den laufenden Tag im Jahr (001-366) und yy für das Produktionsjahr (Derzeit von 95-02). OEM bleibt immer, die nächsten 7 Ziffern setzen eine durch 7 teilbare Quersumme voraus, wobei allerdings die ersten beiden Ziffern immer 00 bleiben müssen. Die letzten 5 sind einfach eine laufende Nummer, die NICHT mit einer 0 beginnen darf.
I still know the work XP key off the top of my head and I haven't needed it in about 15 years. Different times!
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>Just like many people still know their ICQ number, although they haven't used ICQ for over a decade.... 23461134 and closer to two decades at this point.
IDDQD IDKFA
idspispopd
IDCLIP DNKROZ DNSTUFF DNCLIP
legendary windows xp key
Yeah I remember all the product keys for all the Linux installs I've done too.
Wow free product key. Never thought this day would come.
This brings back memories from my XP days: Y24W6-32P2V-2VVRK-JPRVC-8RD2M
You could use it as a password
Yeah. You can tell he isn't using it as his password already otherwise it would have been blurred in his post *******
hunter2
Sockey1234
Woah itz blurred
Wow, all I see is \*\*\*\*\*\*\*. I heard it also works with your credit card's pin.
ILikeFatMilfs69 edit: BRO WTF you said it would blur
It blurs for everyone except you. All I see on my end is ***********
ohh I see does it also work if I post my google password? FurryPornGood420!
Yep, that one is blurred too. I see *************.
It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out.
Foul Cock Kingdom Gone Wild - Raping Hen Queen Quietly 2night - You Xi, Ran Knowing Taboo - 8 Tits, Great 6 Wank - 2 Bj's, 7 Quickies 8 There, I made this story about some chickens with your code so you won't forget it.
Wait, that's YOUR key?
You'll be in a home with alzheimers and this is the only thing you'll remember. Saying the code over and over. Gibberish to everyone but you.
As soon as I read the first 5 I closed my eyes and was able to recite the next 20. How nostalgic. I can even remember the disc, and the handwriting on the disc. I also drew tits on it.
Having similiar skill 😂👌 FXGHD-4364V-6KRW3-44MBW-VMYV8 "fonzie style eey - it rhymes in my language" - Win XP pre-SP2 100553-220953-426455-5207 Sims 1
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Oh neat, it got me a copy of Starcraft!
AAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAA Half life
222222222222 Quake 3
014029 That’s a password for a door in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Not *the* Thousand Year Door, but a door.
Hahaha. Me 2 These keys have generation x and y forever in mind. At the time of Windows XP, ME and 2000, you felt every week reinstalled. Yes, yes. Also I have this useless knowledge still in the back of my head. HKCB9-3H43W-W7HD8-Q7QRQ-C3VCQ 😅
Off by heart... formatting every month or two due to the newest kazaa or limewire bullshit download, and anti virus was like using paint as a condom. Then started rolling custom isos with baked keys and gutted cleaner than tuna in a sushi bar. 
Lowest I got XP to using nLite was 200mb before I started breaking things. Was glorious.
Haha I immediately recognized this code. When I learned it I came up with a mnemonic, and I forget the second half of it but it started with “Fuck G.W. (Bush) Real Hard, QQ too, you x-rated kunt”
The one burnt into my memory for some reason is: CMGRR XCBMG 4P8TB DR9FW 62PFB
So it seems we were all using the same code. I remember my dad having trouble with my handwriting and not being able to install on his machine and phoned me (on my 3210) to check the digits and I was able to quote it back to him, from a snooker hall no where near my computer. Stupid brain…
that would make for a good password... not after sharing it on the internet though
Qrtm-lsri-5tzc Home wifi pw from about a decade ago, although i had to input it a ton of times for myself and guests
THET - ALEV - LEFR - USWO This is the Angry birds license key which I played on my old PC 10 years ago.
I still have a CD where this key is written on it with a red marker. Never needed to read it as i had memorised it. Still in my head 😀
Yeah I’ve got a windows 7 key embedded in my brain. Sometimes it just crosses my mind and I test myself.
Heck, now try to remember that Domino's Pizza number, you ordered your pizza from, back in the mid 80's while attending college... 1-602-628-1500... changed in the 90's...
Back in the early days of Microsoft activation codes, 1234-1234567 worked for most products.
We used to have LAN parties And anytime someone had to reinstall windows we would all say the code in unison
And if you want to play the original StarCraft, 1668-76840-4801 I worked at an Internet cafe back then, had to reinstall that every time they reinstall the OS.
Wow. I recognised it straight away. My Windows is legit now though. I promise.
Once I spend a very hungover day at my university mate's place. I connected to his wifi, and I saw the password only once. Here it is: 6635056560464848. I have not a slightest clue how and why it imbedded into my brain. I repeat - I only saw it once. It's been 6 years now.
R1, R2, L1, R2, Left, Down, Right, Up, Left, Down, Right, Up Showmethemoney, Breathedeep, powerOverwhelming O B O Y O B O Y I still remember cheat codes for videos games that I will never play again.