I’m old enough to remember this….
It’s past your bedtime grandpa.
It likely is….
Now get off my lawn!!!
Wait, you’re telling me the files are IN the computer?
Microsoft: we’ll make long-ass cd keys so they’re difficult to memorize and pirate
18-year-old me: hold my cherry coke
hold my Surge
Thanks for the free key sucker 😎
…that cd-key is etched into my brain.
Remember? I have the disc in a box next to me
I have a couple dozen. LoL 😂
Same lmao
Don’t forget the classic:
Savage
Bruh, I remember 5.25” floppies.
And 5 1/4” hard drives.
Ah, yes, full height 5 1/4" hard drives. (CD drives in desktop computers are “half height”)
20 MB BABY! (Slaps the top of his Amstrad 1512 CGA overclocked to 8mhz 8086)
Epson Equity II, with a “hard card”. Regular hard disks took up the second floppy drive slot; the hard card let you keep it.
I had hundreds of 5.25" floppies with pirated Apple II games.
I even owned a 9" floppy disk drive and a few disks, but just as a novelty.
We even got that damn zip disk drive for a while. 28k modem days, I was telecommuting via floppy and usps
I have an unopened box of 5.25" floppies in the attic, still in their shrink wrap. I’m not holding my breath for them to come in handy any time soon.
I’m old enough to remember Win3.0 and the 10-digit activation codes that were valid if they were mod-7. Yes, that did include 000-0000000.
Nice.
I recall my win95 key.
I say “my” like I’d paid for it. Really it was just one that worked.
Our activation key, comrade!
Take a lighter. Hold it to the clear side of the disk. Once it’s good and hot take the lighter and drop it through the other side.
Lol no you blow a bubble with it.
Yes. Next to my Windows 7 and BeOS CDs
I still have mine around here, somewhere! It’s WinXP Media Center 2005. That I still use on my Dimension E510.
This is the internet. You can say FUCK GW here
Yeah, fuck gamesworkshop!
I’m old enough to have saved and loaded data with a cassette drive (i.e. a random ass tape deck with a special cable attached to the computer) on a TI-99/4a. You had to set the volume level the same for recording and reading or else it wouldn’t read correctly. Get off my lawn.
The TI-99/4A was a gorgeous machine. Visually. I hated using it.
CAN YOU PLEASE COMMENT A LITTLE LOUDER? I DIDN’T QUITE CATCH THAT!
I SAID IT’S TIME TO TAKE OUR METAMUCIL.
WHY YES, I WOULD LIKE THE COFFEE CAKE WITH STREUSEL
Apparently they’re still used for data storage.
I remember playing Parsec, TI Invaders, and a bunch of other games on that. We also had the periperal expansion box, with its flat firehose cable.
I remember Parsec from a friend’s house but I didn’t have that one. I had Jawbreaker and Hunt the Wumpus, and the extended BASIC cartridge. I was a party animal back then.
I am almost certain there is a copy of both XP and 7 with the key written on the disc just like this in my box of “maybe I’ll need it one day” computer cables and parts box lol.
The sacred box of parts! May it never be called on.
Amen.
I had to pull out a DVI-D to display port cable from there a few days ago. I felt so validated for holding onto that cable for 3 moves lol
It’s in the stack with the StarCraft and red alert CD’s.
I found an original StarCraft jewel case in the trunk of my car last year. It had heros of might and magic 4 inside lol.
Mine are diablo 2 and all the isometric fallouts.
I have a “NOT TRASH!!! WINDOWS 10” envelope on my desk. I think my copy of 7 is likely lost to time.
