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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I remember when the go-to search term was "warez."

I still don't know if that was supposed to be pronounced like "wares" or "war-ehz." 🤔

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

My dad pronounced it war-easy. Some time later I played Morrowind and, well... "Khajit has warez if you have coin"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think either answer is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Software and hardware are both wares aka goods or services that are for sale. Merchants deal in wares. Pirates deal in warez.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

My native language isn't English, so for me as a teen back then it was definitely the second option.