This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…
im literally 15, youre acting like CDs are antique vor smth
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.
I’m exactly that old.
Edit: The PC in the image is a bit anachronistic. This is the workhorse we’re all thinking of:
Wasn’t that called the optiplex, or something similar? Pretty sure I had one myself.
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
PrecisionDimension model which was the consumer version of it.
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Naw. I’m this fucking old:
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!
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.
Don’t you use a flathead for that?
A flathead is still a screwdriver, is it not?
It was a Philips screw IIRC. You can also use a flathead screwdriver on them but you shouldn’t IMHO.
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With a cassette to 3.5mm jack adapter and a discman on an anti-skip cradle, obviously
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.
Old enough to remember why computers with no hard drives had 2 floppy drives: OS in A:, application in B:.
This guy nibbles… And Gorillas
config.sys and autoexec.bat gang.
When you had to choose between booting your OS at all or loading Doom.
I’m hooking two vhs players together to commit piracy old.
Was one of them ordered from germany so it didn’t have the macrovision circuit in it?
No idea, it was the neighbour kid’s VCR.
Kind of a joke few would get. For a period of time in the late 80’s into the early 90’s it was very hard to get a german made VCR. Odering them straight from there wasn’t really a option. You could only get them at high cost unless you knew someone in the military over there. They would go to the local PX, buy one and ship it home. It was good way to make really good quality copies.
my dad rented movies and did this do we could watch them over and over. og pirate for me
Limewire? How about DC++ and eMule?
Don’t forget soulseek.
Soulseek is still going believe it or not. Fantastic service.
Kids, I played Leisure Suit Larry on a Macintosh II
My favorite memory of that era was awkwardly asking my mom historical questions to get past the age block.
‘Mom! Who was Nixon’s vice president?’ or something like that.
Ah, life before the Internets…
Commodore64 gang represent!
I’m monochrome cga screen old. Commodore VIC 20, Philips MSX, Video 2000 old.
Ah, a fellow ancient one from the time before color. Cheers.
Back in my day we had green text on black and we were happy.
Yup, and they sent men to the moon with 32 kilobytes of RAM. It was enough to go to the moon, and by god it was enough for you!
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’m older.
Let’s just leave it at that
Yeah, I remember flippies and casettes, but I’m too young for 8 track.
Oh boy. I remember seeing an 8 track system once… I was very curious, and honestly, I still don’t have any of the answers I wanted. They’re just no longer relevant. The tech was old when I was a kid.
I used dial up, so anything that’s post-Internet, I’m probably older than. I still remember the idiot news anchors going “move over Internet, here comes the world wide Web”… They’re literally the same thing. What the fuck are you talking about?
A new use for my cassette recorder.
Other than storing programs in it?
9600
1200
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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