Personally, I’ve always loved the process of taking things apart, understanding how they work and putting them back together. I turned that into a degree in mechanical engineering and eventually a career in power plant operations. Couldn’t be happier with my work than I currently am. Its WORK but I don’t hate it and I feel like I’m doing something important.
I certainly remember the age of “key-gens” when you still had keys on the back of the CDs that you bought. But the internet wasn’t quite up for actually downloading entire games, yet (it would take weeks or months. Heck, mp3s took days back then).
Yeah, I’m kind of old.
I downloaded a ton of games from warez sites over 28.8 and 56 using a download agent