• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
      link
      fedilink
      182 days ago

      Somewhat relatedly, I still have the MSDN Windows 2000 license key memorized.

      Needless to say, I have not had to install Windows 2000 on anything for quite some time.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        9
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        Cool, I had a Win98 one memorized for years but it’s gone now.

        And of course there’s…

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
          link
          fedilink
          1
          edit-2
          2 days ago

          95 is easy, you can use all zeroes or all ones and it would pass the algorithm check and let you install. There was no online check requirement, unlike XP.

          98 you could do 12345-12345-12345-12345-12345 or some similar variant as I recall, so I never bothered knowing an “actual” key for those.

          XP and above could be trivially bypassed with software, so the whole thing was moot after that. Silly technology.