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Happy 19th anniversary to freecupholder.exe
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Killatia is a lucky person. Running an .exe from an unknown source
It was a more innocent time. I was introduced to cupholder.exe from my mom, who got it from a coworker’s chain email, as all things spread in those days. I think it might have specifically been called a coke can holder in the email because we were in the south, lol.
2006? No way. 1996, sure, but by 2006 this was already a bonehead move.
Gonna be honest, I somehow missed all the dates on this post because I zeroed in on freecupholder.exe, lmao. Late 90s was when I saw it first, but it’s totally believable to me that people were doing this in 2006.