Leisure Suit Larry and the Land of the Lounge Lizard was by far the most-shared file on my BBS after that, as every hacker in the area-code wanted to get their chance to help Larry lose his virginity. Furley (from the television show Three’s Company – Google it). Larry’s campy 1970’s disco attire and dorky double-entendre was like playing a simulation of a day in the life of Mr. To a 16-year-old boy, the raunchy exploits of the hapless 38-year-old virgin Larry Laffer search for love – or to simply get lucky – in the fictional town of Lost Wages, were an absolute laugh riot.
One of those files was Leisure Suit Larry and the Land of the Lounge Lizards. Every morning I would log into my BBS server, and quickly unpack all the new files to see what new goodies had been shared. The owners had no idea that their main PC was host to a sort of lending library of software – with local folks sharing files packed in the brand new “PKZIP” format which greatly speeded up the uploading and downloading over the already blazing-fast 2400 baud modem I had installed. In 1988, I was a 16-year-old hacker running a late-night BBS over the phone line of a local business at which I was employed during the day.
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