Leaked an installation key? Microsoft is gonna send a helicopter to raid you....
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Even still have a copy of 98
I recently cleaned out some boxes of random stuff I had in one of my wardrobes and found several discs like this, some with Ubuntu 5-8.04, random drivers and other fun stuff. Huge nostalgia trip going through them. I also found this CD my dad gave me when I was 20 and had just started smoking weed:
(the title is in Swedish and means "a chill disc")
Sadly lost him in December last year, RIP dad. I normally don't smoke anymore but I'm gonna get a small piece of hash and smoke it while playing this in memory of him.
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I actually had a Windows 98 CD at one point. Copied/ pitated, of course. The keys that I had were kinda stolen from the IT department that I was working for, at the time.
Only kinda stolen. The company was required to have a ridiculous amount of OEM keys. There were only 200 people working at CR back then, that needed Windows 98 rather than Windows NT, and of course there were the 8 Linux/Unix guys that IT mostly ignored, except for their connection to the intranet.
IT could buy 100 keys, or 250 keys. There was no option to buy two groups of 100 keys back in 1998. So we had about 56 keys just laying around that a few of us in IT just kinda took. We also took a total of 300 Windows NT licences, but I kinda doubt that any of managed to even give away a license of WNT.
Me: This, but Office 2000.
I memorised this key, mainly due to LAN parties, since someone would always have some issue that needed them to reinstall Wndows. To this day i can recite it in full at any time. Also my library card number from when i was 12 (in case i forgot my card at home).
I memorized that key from pure usage. Good times.
Oh wow you just reminded me I did too at one point. Wild to think back on that part of my life, I've barely touched windows in over 10 years but man at one point so much of my brain was filled with windows related junk
At least 35. Maybe closer to 40.
I was going to disagree with you because I had a copy of Windows XP on the disc in my drawer, but then I remembered that I am 35 so thanks for that.
Oh...
Somehow upgrading from MS-DOS 3.30 to 5.0 was alright, but 6.22 seemed like a lot of clutter. QEMM386 was the shit. My 8088 got the coprocessor upgrade at some point I'm Geoworks old. With the C64 on the side
damn now my XP serial is public for everyone, I thank you NOT!
Not real. The Bs and 8s are clearly different.
Press play, FF, together. Count the gaps.
I was so good and so careful with my printing when I had to write cd keys down. Nothing like burning something off of your summer vacation friend and then having them go back to the city and you're off by... something.
before this one, I had a Windows 2000 Professional one with the local education department's VL key
University keys are available online.