It’s not super related but all the talk about how easy the Sierra games were to crack reminded me of that time I built a crack for nearly all shareware of the era.
https://joeldare.com/that-time-i-built-a-crack-for-nearly-al...
https://joeldare.com/that-time-i-built-a-crack-for-nearly-al...
I imagine a documentary like the one for BBSes but for the cracking/cracktro scene would be k-rad
From the wikipedia page:
"THG was run by professional men, who were available each day "by 10:30" when FedEx, or UPS delivered. The other groups had to "wait until they got home" in the afternoons."
now I understand why they were faster :-)