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thinking about those tiny cd roms with the sides cut off youd get for drivers and at trade shows. what was the point of that garbage anyway. this is a thread for when you remember thing about computer
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it's a place for random access memories
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Jan 24, 2022 22:35
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i remember tiny baby cds but not ones with the sides cut off, wtf was that mate
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Jan 24, 2022 22:36
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when i was like 11 i didnt know you needed to connect a computer to a phone line to get onto the internet and spent a night trying to get an aol free whatever hours cd to work.
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Jan 24, 2022 22:40
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when i was like 12 i spent a lot of time trying to find pirated software and installed multiple trojans on my parents computer.
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Jan 24, 2022 22:41
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I remember computers
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Jan 24, 2022 22:41
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:i remember tiny baby cds but not ones with the sides cut off, wtf was that mate
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Jan 24, 2022 22:43
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whoa i remember
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Jan 24, 2022 22:45
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remember how good it used to feel to use a computer, so good you would voluntarily stay up all night to do it. lol 
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Jan 24, 2022 22:46
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sneak down after the house was asleep to use the computer
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Jan 24, 2022 22:47
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when i was like 13 my dad installed some type of lock-and-key switch on the phone jack for the internet line out in the garage, so he could turn off the internet before he went to bed. otherwise i would stay up until 5 am. i would get off the computer and go to bed when i heard him waking up for work.
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Jan 24, 2022 22:48
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Jan 24, 2022 22:50
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wouldnt it just be easier to make a tiny cd instead of a tiny cd with indexing edges
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Jan 24, 2022 23:35
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bootable business card for your linux
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Jan 24, 2022 23:37
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Jan 24, 2022 23:39
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we tried to make these from regular cdrs with a cnc router it did not work well lol
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post hole digger posted:when i was like 13 my dad installed some type of lock-and-key switch on the phone jack for the internet line out in the garage, so he could turn off the internet before he went to bed. otherwise i would stay up until 5 am. i would get off the computer and go to bed when i heard him waking up for work. did you ever make loud toast?
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Jan 24, 2022 23:40
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good memories of faking sick and then hearing my mom leave, firing up a cracked copy of Black and White or something, from KaZaa letting keygen music rip loudly through the house as i get a soda from the fridge
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Jan 25, 2022 18:13
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being so keen to play monkey island 2, with its 12 discs on my one disk drive amiga, when we were going away on holiday I got up at like 5 to get a few hours in before we left and I couldn’t play for a while
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Jan 25, 2022 18:20
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Scud Hansen posted:good memories of faking sick and then hearing my mom leave, firing up a cracked copy of Black and White or something, from KaZaa we have to go back
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Jan 25, 2022 18:22
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my earliest computer memory is typing on an Atari 400
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Jan 25, 2022 18:58
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another random memory: making music with modplug tracker and putting it on a floppy so I could upload it on the parents computer
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Jan 25, 2022 19:00
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I remember replaying the scuba diving mouse tutorial on our Mac a bunch of times because I thought it was so badass
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Jan 25, 2022 19:08
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also distinctly remember being happy during one winter break because I had a dry cup of ramen to eat while I read articles about ants on the encyclopedia Britannia cd. also played a lot of sim ant, natch
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Jan 25, 2022 19:10
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:also distinctly remember being happy during one winter break because I had a dry cup of ramen to eat while I read articles about ants on the encyclopedia Britannia cd. also played a lot of sim ant, natch this sure is something
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Jan 25, 2022 19:32
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SIMMs
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Jan 25, 2022 20:18
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Bored Online posted:thinking about those tiny cd roms with the sides cut off youd get for drivers and at trade shows. what was the point of that garbage anyway. so they would be the same size as standard business cards
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Jan 25, 2022 20:40
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my earliest computer memory is being taken to a room next to the boiler room and playing chess against the mainframe on a teletype and writing little 10 print X 20 goto 10 programs and saving them on paper tape.
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Jan 25, 2022 20:42
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wish my memories were volatile like computers computer restarts and all the bad things go away
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Jan 25, 2022 21:11
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e: bad idea
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Jan 25, 2022 21:23
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rotor posted:my earliest computer memory is being taken to a room next to the boiler room and playing chess against the mainframe on a teletype and writing little 10 print X 20 goto 10 programs and saving them on paper tape. huh and here I figured your earliest memory would involve an antikythera device or something
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Silver Alicorn posted:huh and here I figured your earliest memory would involve an antikythera device or something memory loss is a tragic part of aging and pointing it out like this kind of a jerk move
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Jan 25, 2022 22:47
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remembering constantly tearing up the family packard bell just so I could mess around with the poo poo inside and my exacerbated father giving up yelling at me about it so he bought his own compaq presario pc just for him to use but he kept coming home to find that I had torn that pc up just so I could mess around with the poo poo inside.
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Jan 25, 2022 22:49
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plays MUDs all night in middle school and chatting on aim 
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Jan 25, 2022 23:18
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getting decss working on linux so i could watch akira falling asleep with the linux matrix screensaver going with dj keoki playing on xmms wardriving with a prism2 pcmcia wifi card beige boxing red boxing 
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Pirate Adventure on the TI-99/4A. also: blasto, car wars, and talking mad poo poo on jawbreaker 2 indiana jones and the curse of atlantis demo x-wing TIE fighter posting on a forum for keeping rats and guinea pigs and stuff internet roleplaying a jedi or wtfever on a forum for the star wars ccg where roleplayers had just taken over and decipher was like "ok guys cool, have fun" playing one of those cgi-form based browser games for virtual cockfighting. my chicken had laser spurs and armor and his own coop and stuff
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Jan 25, 2022 23:24
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gettin fuckin owned by the pope in castles 2: siege and conquest
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encarta mindmaze
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Jenny Agutter posted:encarta mindmaze aww yeah thats the stuff
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Playing tunes using the 386 computer speaker with QBasic and writing cool color visualizations for them with the different video modes. Programing my Casio PB-300 with the awesome manual programs it came with. A whole 4kb of battery-backed up SRAM!
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