Ooh, as a pre-teen of An Early Post-Soviet Country, I remember how puzzled I was as to what the hell that message and the files with those curly logos in the folders of most of my pirated DOS games actually mean. A paper dictionary lookup (razor = "habemeajaja" or "raseerija" or "žiletitera" in Estonian) didn't help either. Also, in our language, "warez" rhymes with "vares" [v-uh-res], which typically stands for "hooded crow" (corvus cornix), so... this + 1911... uh... that didn't make sense either.
As a boy really into drawing, I was seriously impressed by that ASCII art, though. It is surely a big part of why I still find the DOS/ASCII aesthetic the most pleasurable in terms of computer graphics and GUIs.
As a boy really into drawing, I was seriously impressed by that ASCII art, though. It is surely a big part of why I still find the DOS/ASCII aesthetic the most pleasurable in terms of computer graphics and GUIs.