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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Fancy. Who could afford a CD-ROM drive at those prices?

We had boxes of floppy disks and BBS to get us through.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Oh, I remember loading lemmings from a floppy as a 7 yearold

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Luxury.

I had to load my games in from tape!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Tape?

Now let me tell you about punched cards…

… that were used long before I was born.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

'course I say tape, it was more like a code listing in a magazine, but it were a tape to us!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Back in my day we had books, that we had to share, and we LIKED it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Books? Back in my day we had cuneiform tablets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

A literal god or the worst ever homeschooled kid walks among us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

My dad used punch cards.

He's dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That’s how I started too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I remember looking at the CD Roms before our computer had one.