Hotline
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
Hotline was a bastard attempt at dragging the bullshit of an old school BBS into the 90s using the internets. It originated sometime last Thursday and was mainly used for trading warez and pr0n. Tonnes of script kiddies set up Hotline servers running off their basement cable and dialup connections with gay hacker names like "Dem0nz Lare" and "WaReZ tHe WaReZ". It required the use of a software client and tracker websites, which was too much effort for most internet fucktards so now Hotline languishes in a putrid pool of its own fail.
Hotline was notable for not only allowing kiddie fiddlers to trade their sick fucking shit through private servers but also for the way it combined piracy with forums and chat. Thankfully, most of the over 9000 servers were created by mouth breathing loners who desperately wanted to be the sysop of a 1337 BBS back in 1740 or whenever the fuck "War Games" was released.
And if Hotline wasn't bad enough, Macintosh fags had their own version called Carracho, where they traded OS9 applications, CP and AIDS. Today, people just use Rapidshit and BitTorrent, but Hotline/Carracho was a mild improvement on IRC, although after you'd spent over 9,000 hours on your parent's shitty dialup modem downloading Dreamweaver 2 only to find a folder filled with Goatse, the desire to become an hero increases significantly. Today, there are only about fifteen Hotline servers still running.
