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This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Why must you do this to me. I'm already having a shit day and now you remind me that I was there when CDs replaced floppy. god dammit.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Kid, I have windows 3.1 on goddamn floppies.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Kids, I played Leisure Suit Larry on a Macintosh II

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

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EVEN OLDER!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Where are the speakers, that warned you about incoming calls?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I actually remember albums. They were these physical discs that actually existed within our 3D world. Made entirely of vinyl, they played on a modular device designed entirely for their use and their use alone. In comparison, they were close to the same thickness, but considerably larger than even the ancient CD-ROMs were!

And they sounded SOOOOO much better than anything you’ve ever heard.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Tell your kids we used to burn cd for entertainment, then proceed to take a torch to the cd.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

To be fair I've done that too haha.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I still do this, minus limewire because it doesn't exist

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I had so many burned CDs with games and music... This was back when ADSL internet was the hot new thing with incredible download speeds of 30kb/s

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Don’t hurt me like this.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

My first pirated copy of windows was 3.1.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Why are you attacking me?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

8088 era is in da house.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The good old days of getting music from IRC or MP3 download websites found with Altavista.com

Just to play them back with WinPlay3 on a computer that used 100% CPU just to play back a file and dropped audio frames anyway.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Don't talk about age... My back hurts and I remember booting dos to run win.com if you wanted windows. Most of the stuff ran fine directly from dos without the added shell.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I had a portable hard drive. I think I still have it somewhere.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Laughs in IRC.

Giggles in BBS.

Two day downloads because kermit was the only download protocol that working with the endpoint due to noise in the connection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_(protocol)

What was a I downloading? A bmp of a topless Samantha Fox.

Edit: I decided to take stroll down memory lane and have discovered that there were two Samantha foxes one was in pornos and the one I'm remembering was a page three girl in the UK. The page I found had them as the same person even though they look nothing alike.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Well... Yes. But I never used limewire because our Internet was so shit it'd take 25 minutes just to load in a Web page entirely made of just text.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Did none of you bitches fucking use tape-recorders?

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Tech culture is around 10 years late here in India. So I can say I have worked with above tools. But CD Roms are now thing of past. Pen Drives, HDD and SDD are now tool of the game now.

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