• yeehaw
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    85 months ago

    I always thought it was warez as in “wears”. My understanding is it was short for “softwares” or something. Take the end, add a dash of 1337sp34k and you get warez.

    Maybe I’m wrong.

    • @ulterno
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      -15 months ago

      Except that softwares and hardwares probably came out of the word “wares”.