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

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[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kid, I have windows 3.1 on goddamn floppies.

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[–] SuperApples@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pre-home internet I remember running a line-in to my soundblaster card from a clock radio and recording Tool's Sober to my HDD.

The wav file took up a good chunk of the HDD. After a good amount of funking around with encoding it was barely comprehensible and still took up too much room. Was exciting and felt like a glimpse of the future.

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[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Dusty old bones. Frog Bog, Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack, Truckin and B-17 Bomber

[–] nostradamnit@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Kids, I played Leisure Suit Larry on a Macintosh II

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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EVEN OLDER!

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

To be fair I've done that too haha.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] keegomatic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Don’t hurt me like this.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 1 week ago

My first pirated copy of windows was 3.1.

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[–] natecox@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

Why are you attacking me?

[–] Ferus42@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] bitPagan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

8088 era is in da house.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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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[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How else was I going to play pirated music in my car?

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[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

1st computer I used was an Apple ][e in first grade. Figured out how to make Spirographs with logo.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] palmtrees2309@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] melfie@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I found this video interesting about how music doesn’t have the same value to Gen Z as it does to Millennials. I remember in high school, what kind music you listened to often determined your friends group. I was a new kid in the 10th grade sitting at a table by myself at lunch wearing a Korn shirt, and my soon to be friends group for my remaining years in high school invited me to their table based on my shirt. Not sure if Gen Z cares about music in the same way, since it has been highly commoditized now, and it seems that digital distribution at least contributed to this situation.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag4iFa6E_yY

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Okay okay but why sharpies? You can still buy and use those today, did you know?

Don't you know? Kids these days only know something twerk something eat hot chips something be bisexual etc..

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[–] Tin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I'm this old.

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