Shareware: The Past and Future of PC Gaming

[zoidberg rules]

Speaking of graphics, I did a bit of research into Crysis 2 today... Turns out, Chuck Norris can play Crysis at 200fps...On an abacus.

[Vibhor]

Speaking of graphics, I did a bit of research into Crysis 2 today... Turns out, Chuck Norris can play Crysis at 200fps...On an abacus.

Lame joke is pretty lame.
But eff that.
What is really the importance of shareware might I ask?
So far it has only made me grind my teeth

EDIT: Oh yeah, I got one more for you.
Old meme is oooooold

[Chibiabos]

I got into computing in the 1980s, when shareware came on floppy disks -- 5 1/4" and later 3 1/2" -- through mail order. I remember the thrill of a disk arriving in the mail, more often than not it was an exciting, pleasant experience to have new software. Shareware was a way for talented programmers to make software or games and get them out there for others to enjoy, without having to go through a big publisher. Shareware, at the time, took a variety of forms, generally trialware with some "honor" system where you got the full version of a program, and if you enjoy and use it regularly, you were asked on your honor to send payment in to the programmer who wrote the software.

[Renegade_Turner]

Lame joke is pretty lame.
...
EDIT: Oh yeah, I got one more for you.
Old meme is oooooold

Funny how, in criticising him for using both (1) a lame joke, and (2) an old meme, you also use both of those things yourself in the phrases you use to criticise him.

I'll be skeptical of any claims that this was intended to be an ironic usage of these phrases.