One thing back then that&#x27;s mostly gone now was the underground economy for data. Hackers and techies, myself included, had to find the best sources for software, music, even porn haha. The speed, pricing, and availability issues meant whoever had the most in one spot (or in person) had an advantage. So, barter networks emerged where people hooked each other up with stuff trading all this data. I used to even hunt for obscure stuff when I had more time than money and someone had something I needed. I was good at it, too, with my eventual collection of noteworthy content being 200+ CD&#x27;s.<p>Now Google, StackOverflow, Reddit, and Bittorrent keeps us old Shadowrunners in the niches that mainstream rarely touches or has too little patience for. Old days were fun, though. :)