Greetings
The shout-outs demos and cracktros wove into their scrolltexts — the scene's social currency, aimed at friends and rivals alike.
Nearly every demo and cracktro sooner or later rolled into a run of "greetings": a roll call of other groups and people the writer wanted to nod to. Being greeted by the right group was status; being listed everywhere meant you were seen. The lists could grow longer than the content itself.
The convention was so established that it earned its own jargon: greets, greetz, "a big hello to". It worked as a social network before there were any — anyone could read who knew whom, and rivalries played out in who was pointedly left off.