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In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio

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286 points spzb | 1 comments | 28 Mar 25 22:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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caseyy ◴[31 Mar 25 11:08 UTC] No.43533573[source]▶
I read this is how the CD Projekt Red founders smuggled Western games into the Iron Curtain states. I think it's an urban myth, but separately, the founders smuggled games into the USSR, and some games were smuggled through the radio then.
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1. snozolli ◴[31 Mar 25 15:17 UTC] No.43536026[source]▶
I remember hearing about people who were really into data broadcast over shortwave radio. They were mostly prepper types, but I'm sure there were some pirates among them.

Here's a pretty thorough article on data over radio:

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/may2015_Steber