There was a time long, long ago when the world didn t have a magical cloud that stores every file they own.
Data had to be stored on hard drives or something called a floppy disk, a form of hard copy storage in which small plastic discs, covered in magnetic material with concentric rings, held various files. People used them to organize their important tax records, shareware games and the romantic sci-fi novella they swore they d finish but never did. Way back in the mid 90s when I was 12 or 13, I was an AOL script kiddie, says Corey Hyden, the owner of the Free Play Arcade chain. You weren t a real hacker but you thought you were. You d type where every other letter was capital and go into the chat rooms and thought you were really cool. As part of that, they have these floppy disk trades and you would offer to trade some that had some kind of hacker software or tips and tricks for hacking.