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

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

I'm exactly that old.

Edit: The PC in the image is a bit anachronistic. This is the workhorse we're all thinking of:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasn't that called the optiplex, or something similar? Pretty sure I had one myself.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

I had an Optipex from that era too. It was "horizontal" but could also stand vertically. It was the business model.

This one, but beige:

The image is the ~~Precision~~ Dimension model which was the consumer version of it.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Naw. I'm this fucking old:

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wooo, look at hoity toity FancyPants over here with their screwdriver. All we could afford to fix our cassette tapes was a pencil. And a blunt pencil at that. And it was probably stolen from school!! Screwdrivers indeed!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

The screwdriver is not for the tape. It’s for adjusting the audio head so it can pick up the data on the tape.

When someone gave you a tape with some nice games on it there was a near 100% chance you needed to adjust your datasette to read them.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

i witnessed the creation of the mp3 format!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

oh yeah that piece of crap i haven't missed ^^

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There was nothing at all wrong with...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

I could hear the pixels...

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

.ra files taught me why proprietary is a bad word.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Everytime I see limewire I feel left out.

Where are my Kaaza hommies at??

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Here!

Kazaa, Kazaa light, WinMX, DC++. I used them all.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

How did the progression go? Napster, Morpheus, Kazaa, Limewire?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Where are my eMule fuckers at?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

Im Not even 40. Leave me alone.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm quite a bit older than this...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah, I was going to bring up Turbo buttons, but then realised that the Commodore Vic 20 in my bedroom predates that by quite some margin 😇

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Remember how when you would burn a CD you couldn't use your computer lest the write buffer dropped too low and the burn world fail?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I remember buying a stack of CDs only to find out they were +R, not -R, and this utterly useless (or something like that, can't specifically recall whether ±R/RW).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I remember this being a DVD thing. By the time I got a dvd burner though mine supported both.

The RW issue with CDs was that a lot of older players couldn’t read them.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

2001, Dre's album drops, nobody has it yet. In walks the kid who has a T1 line and a 5 disc CD copier with a spindle of discs. He sits down in homeroom, puts the spindle on his desk and says Dre's new album five bucks right here.

He sold out before the end of the day, made a good amount of cash, and was racking it in for months getting people albums that they requested because none of us could get it work with our slow connection. Of course when the two competing ISPs upgraded their networks later that year, he lost the majority of his business, but for a few months he was our pirate savior.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't even know what you are talking about. I am young, very young. I enjoy rizzing in the toilets and skibiding everyday bro. So fresh. 🤙

pls don't leave me with the boomers...

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I remember the moment I realised my fancy new Walkman could read data CD-Rs and I could fit all my mp3s into one 700mb disc. I felt insane, majestic, limitless.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

the computer isn't beige enough.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I'm older.

Let's just leave it at that

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Commodore64 gang represent!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

We're as far away from the 90s as the 90s were from the 60s.

Ugh..

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yup, and eventually I got a disk drive with LIGHTSCRIBE and just put the album art on the burned CD. I felt like hot shit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

You fucking were, that's some fancy ass equipment right there.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Limewire? How about DC++ and eMule?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I remember my first written CD. You put the CD into a transfer case and slide it into a large box. Shortly after, the empty transfer case comes back out. You have already prepared your CD image, not as a project or file, no, you had to prepare it as an image on its own partition, on a disk that did not host anything else.

Then you shutdown your computer, and reboot it basically into the burn program, which then tries to move the data fast enough from the disk partition to the CD burner. The speed, of course, was 1x, so this write operation could last an hour and a quarter.

Then, your computer reboots back into the OS. You put the empty transfer case into the writer, and after some time, it comes back out with the media. And now you can finally put in into a reader and read it and compare it to the data on that partition. Knock on wood, or whatever. Because about half the writes failed, and the media cost a fortune.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

These people are like 25-30, that’s not old yet I hope

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I used to pirate games and store them here when I was a kid to play on my commodore 128

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Going from a radio shack trs-80 model 3 to those desktops was great.

Except mine didn't have floppy drives. I only had a cassette player for storage.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Limewire was the shit. But I'm so old I started with Napster

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I started college with a 1.44 MB floppy disk in my pocket and graduated with a 1GB USB stick.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm old enough to remember when that was the fancy new thing the kids were doing.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm old enough to remember when computers didn't even require a hard drive, they could just boot right into Basic from ROM.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

It was great to go to college at a time when Napster and IRC rooms were in prime time, combined with a T1 fiber connection and University IT was too primitive to do anything to monitor or stop the behavior.

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