The Steampunk World

Being the continued explorations of a living steampunk.

The steampunk world is all around us, lying just out of sight, in a continuous thread of steampunk builders and culture that extends from the Victorian era to the present. You'll find no science fiction here: This is real life steampunk.

Monday, October 14, 2002

Went to some friends' house for the first time, and discovered that they were... I dunno what you'd call 'em, hardware hackers? They had a black box on the wall that allowed them to get free pay-per-view. They had a mod chip in their Playstation 1 that injected boot information into the load sequence of any CD you put in there, allowing you to play games that you've copied with a CD-R, of which he had hundreds. For the Playstation 2, their mod chip worked a little differently- it fooled the PS2 into thinking you never opened the lid, so you can boot a regular game, then swap it with one of your bootleg games. Even their fridge had some sort of computer interface, I can't imagine what for. They also had an impressive collection of city parking meters.

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