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Back in the mid-’80s and early ’90s, DIY programming nerds were a fiercely progressive bunch. Believing that freedom of information is a basic civil right, they hacked everything they could; like graf artists breaking into buildings and tagging them as their own, they removed copyright protection from software applications and introduced “crack intros” to computer programs, letting users of said software know which hacker crew had freed up the program to the public. Those crack screens turned into A/V spatializer demos (op art for the coding-inclined), and the “demoscene” was born. Out of that came chiptunes and 8-bit music: beats...
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