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

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[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm hooking two vhs players together to commit piracy old.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was one of them ordered from germany so it didn't have the macrovision circuit in it?

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago

No idea, it was the neighbour kid's VCR.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Older actually. My first portable music format was 8track

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This isn't very old lol. That computer could be from 2010 and CD's and Sharpies were used then. Also, LimeWire was functional until like late 2010.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 94 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (15 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:

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[–] baropithecus@lemmy.world 78 points 4 days ago (16 children)
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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I'm older.

Let's just leave it at that

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[–] PancakeBrock@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

the computer isn't beige enough.

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago
[–] wtckt@lemm.ee 39 points 3 days ago

Im Not even 40. Leave me alone.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 45 points 3 days ago (16 children)
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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 days ago (17 children)

Everytime I see limewire I feel left out.

Where are my Kaaza hommies at??

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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Old enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games.

The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Old enough to remember why computers with no hard drives had 2 floppy drives: OS in A:, application in B:.

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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

No, because my country was pretty much too small and poor to have brand-name sharpies, we just had felt pens with other names. Carioca I believe was the most prominent brand back then.

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Record off the radio to cassette and an active market for pirated live shows because we lived past nowhere and it was all we had access to.

[–] oppy1984@lemm.ee 29 points 3 days 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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[–] Tin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I'm this old.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 4 days ago (8 children)

i witnessed the creation of the mp3 format!

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (12 children)
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[–] Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] kenoh@lemm.ee 30 points 3 days ago (11 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?

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[–] nostradamnit@infosec.pub 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Kids, I played Leisure Suit Larry on a Macintosh II

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[–] SuperApples@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pre-home internet I remember running a line-in to my soundblaster card from a clock radio and recording Tool's Sober to my HDD.

The wav file took up a good chunk of the HDD. After a good amount of funking around with encoding it was barely comprehensible and still took up too much room. Was exciting and felt like a glimpse of the future.

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[–] 5parky@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You don't know old until you've had to change the IRQ for your sound card because wolf3d.exe's settings were different than swotl.exe.

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[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 20 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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

Ugh..

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[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online 8 points 3 days ago (6 children)

...I'm older.

...Oregon Trail older, motherfucker.

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[–] keegomatic@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Don’t hurt me like this.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 6 points 2 days ago

My first pirated copy of windows was 3.1.

[–] adm@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Damn kids acting like 5-10 years before they were born was the dark ages. Damn.

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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days 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.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I still use CDs at work....

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[–] Mooseford@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm pinball = arcade games old.

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[–] dan00@lemm.ee 26 points 4 days 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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[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I can still sorta remember as a kid, sitting down at a chunky old Dell PC running Windows XP, while my dad inserted a CD for some Go Diago go computer game.

We still have that old computer. We tried to throw Linux on it to see if we could use it for something but I think it's truly beyond saving.

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