Comment by 9dev
12 hours ago
Razor 1911! Now here’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time, but teenage me was very grateful to.
The .nfo files alone, distributed with most releases, carrying the most elaborate of ASCII art. I distinctly remember the aesthetics you mention.
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> The .nfo files alone, distributed with most releases, carrying the most elaborate of ASCII art. I distinctly remember the aesthetics you mention.
See their 40 year retrospective demo for a lot more of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dybkLM-1eQo :)
I still refer to 1:37 pm (13:37) as "l33t o'clock" and 7:11 pm (19:11) as "Razor o'clock". They seem to come up remarkably often when I glance at the time, like 11:11 for normies, but I think all of these are some sort of pareidolic/selection-bias effect wherein your brain is just more likely to remember/notice times that it considers significant.
Remember realizing it’s 0x777, one better than 666?
Probably more a reference to total file permissions.
That's 777 octal tho
I believe this was the case, as there was a lot of 666 going around at the time.