Small addendum to my previous post: To put their signature on the “3-Demon” release in 1988, The Bitstoppers didn’t only put a README, an intro, and some deeply nested directories onto the disk – they also included a custom, Bitstoppers-branded mouse pointer as well! Funny that I missed that, because I myself extracted and manually categorized that mouse pointer, among thousands of others, and wrote a little web app that lets me link to it, complete with a OpenGraph-compatible preview image:

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But that’s what shower thoughts are for, I guess. To make up for the slip-up, here’s a recording of Bitstoppers’ fabulously oldschool cracktro. Year!