That was stupid, posting your license key. Now I can use it too, thanks.

Typing CD keys was such a feeling when it was for a brand new game you can't wait to play, pure despair if you mistyped something and it didn't accept but then you corrected the error, biggest sense of relief of my childhood

I'm this old

I had the same key on my XP disc.

Finally, now I don't need to have to call a number to get my XP activated, I can just use this.

For those not in the know, XP's activation requirements are so harsh that your computer just gets disabled completely after the 30 day grace period if you don't activate at all. I live in a place where people really don't tend to buy operating systems, so this was a gigantic letdown.

You know what? Fuck Windows XP. There. I said it. And I'm taking the downvotes without remorse.

This is the internet. You can say "fuck GW", it's fine

Ahhh, the good old copy of windows xp that was stolen from Microsoft a month before release and spread it's beautiful self all around the world, I had that code memorised for a long while, I called it the fuck code.

Floppy disk with Win 3.11

The key that's so commonly used, it's in Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing

This is the oldest I currently have pictures of.

At one point in my life I had the XP VLK for my university memorized. Now all I remember is the end: BGDBB.

I remember a photo of a guy holding the burned XP CD while he's standing at the front entrance of Microsoft. Pretty cool

Hey, that's MY activation key!

SP2 enters the chat........

Sup peeps. I'm stable af.

My dude, you shouldn't post the key in open 🫣

This old.

Almost had this memorized but had a friend I could call who had done so.

I’m trying to get my 89 year old dad to set aside the tapes of the first games I programmed on our Commodore 64 in like 1983 when he moves this year. I really want them.

Early mud stuff. I’ll post it if he finds it.

Unethical life pro trip. If you are installing windows xp through 7 and need a license key, just search on eBay for "Laptop Parts Only" and find an auction where someone was nice enough to post one.

I've seen far more copies like this than original XP discs. It was the style at that time!

I remember reading a conspiracy theory that this key was purposely put in by a liberal employee who believed everything should be free and that’s why the first 5 digits are FCKGW - fuck George w - and that it was the volume license for Lockheed Martin or something

It’s not true but interestingly this key was leaked before windows xp even came out, like a month before, and it’s suspected to be a VLK from dell

Nowadays they’d probably say leftist

I can smell this photo