This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
Wrong Dell.
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I remember doing that...
last year (besides limewire, I needed some CDs to copy to minidiscs)
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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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.
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.
Don't talk about age... My back hurts and I remember booting dos to run win.com if you wanted windows. Most of the stuff ran fine directly from dos without the added shell.
Okay okay but why sharpies? You can still buy and use those today, did you know?
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I am older even…
Punk kids. Back in my day we had Tandy and Applesoft BASIC. We had line numbers and it fucking hurt when they took that away with goddamn function declarations.
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I remember my old car stereo that would run mp3 files off of a CD, shit was so tight! Didn't need to transcribe the music as audio tracks so you could fit so much more Linkin Park tracks on a CD than ever before, god those were the days
1996 called: 2X Plextor SCSI-2 wide internal CDR with Caddy, 5 pack Ricoh 2X CDR and an Adaptec single port pci SCSI-2 card bundle for $599. What a deal to store all my porn!
I don't come here to be assaulted Pug 😤
Also, just black? lmfao
laughs in IRC, magnetic disks, and a 486
Lil' bitch, I'm a 16KB expansion cartridge in my Vic-20 years old.
Older, I used to rip CDs onto tapes using a cassette deck
This, but I used a CD-RW as my scratch disk. Was it good? No. Did it matter with dialup? Not really.
Careful giving out clues to your age on public forums...
But yeah I'm roughly cdr old.
My computer now is very close to that era of Dell.