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I was digging through some stuff and stumbled on this. To think it's been 15 years. Crazy what you used to be able to get a free CD of back in the day.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AOL came on floppies originally, but the quality was so poor that you could barely rewrite them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You are reminding me that I used to keep a copy of Nesticle (for DOS!) on an AOL floppy, along with a couple of ROMs. I saved the fancy Imation Disney disks for my data 😅

Thank you for the flashback!