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irpoweroutlet
Aug 23, 2005
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:

my first forum was massassi.net and last i looked a few years ago you could still find my posts and they were verrrryyyy baaaaaad

that’s a place I haven’t thought of in a long time. they did a review of one of my JK levels there once and it was the coolest thing in the world for 13 year old me

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irpoweroutlet
Aug 23, 2005
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the little remotes with like fours buttons that came with some college textbooks, so your professor could throw up a quiz on a the projector in a lecture with 200 people.

I had a couple classes that used them in the mid-2000s. we called them clickers. I imagine they just use cell phones these days

irpoweroutlet
Aug 23, 2005
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the original iphone Bluetooth headset

irpoweroutlet
Aug 23, 2005
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Sagebrush posted:

still use one in my car to this day :c00lbert:

I’ve got a Bluetooth -> FM transmitter plugged into my 12V outlet. works pretty well

irpoweroutlet
Aug 23, 2005
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floppy disk chat reminded me of something that happened to me in high school. I had a semester long term paper due the next day, and I probably had it 75% complete. I took home 5 copies on separate multicolor translucent floppies. this was back in the early 2000’s when the quality of floppies was going down the shitter. they had something like a 50% failure rate.

I got home that afternoon and went to finish it up, and every. single. disk. was corrupted. I had it saved on my network folder at school and it was early enough I hoped I could still get it. made it to the computer lab, and when I tried to login, I got a message that students were not permitted to login after 5pm.

I freaked the gently caress out, walked to another computer lab somehow hoping i wouldn’t get the same error message. I did. then I spotted a logged in computer in the corner.

the loving network admin had failed to logout of his account and I had access to every students network drive. got a copy of my paper on a reliable floppy, breathed a sigh of relief, and ran out the door.

in retrospect, it’s very lol, but it’s incredible how lucky I got that day

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