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I'm exactly that old.

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

Naw. I'm this fucking old:

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

I'm this old:

the computer isn't beige enough.

Im Not even 40. Leave me alone.

I'm older.

Let's just leave it at that

Everytime I see limewire I feel left out.

Where are my Kaaza hommies at??

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.

i witnessed the creation of the mp3 format!

Older actually. My first portable music format was 8track

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.

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?

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.

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

Ugh..

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

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

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

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.

Kids, I played Leisure Suit Larry on a Macintosh II

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...

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.

...I'm older.

...Oregon Trail older, motherfucker.

I'm this old.

I grew up with these.

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.

Don’t hurt me like this.

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.

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.

My first pirated copy of windows was 3.1.

Commodore64 gang represent!