This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
My first pirated copy of windows was 3.1.
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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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How did the Sharpie get dragged into this? I still need to use one of those for work.
Anyway, i fit the description. Win.com, Soundblaster IRQ, Audiogalaxy, BBS, etc. It seemed like it was more fun back then. Marketing ruined everything. 🤷♂️
"CD labeling pen" They sold permanent markers with thin tips specifically for writing on CDs.
Older, I used to rip CDs onto tapes using a cassette deck
Don't talk about age... My back hurts and I remember booting dos to run win.com if you wanted windows. Most of the stuff ran fine directly from dos without the added shell.
People that age will see this and say "hell yeah"
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.
LIM
I didn't think I was old until this post... I'm like the youngest millennial you could be.
Eldest millennial reporting in
...I'm older.
...Oregon Trail older, motherfucker.
That's impossible. You would've died of dysentery long ago!
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.
config.sys and autoexec.bat gang.
When you had to choose between booting your OS at all or loading Doom.
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This guy nibbles... And Gorillas
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I had a portable hard drive. I think I still have it somewhere.
I had to buy a portable DVD-R drive to recover some old movies I made with friends as a kid. I felt old. The sound of the scratched disk trying to be read brought back trauma from when my first PS2 died.
This, but I used a CD-RW as my scratch disk. Was it good? No. Did it matter with dialup? Not really.
8088 era is in da house.
Limewire was the shit. But I'm so old I started with Napster
Off the top of my head others I remember were: Kazaa, Morpheus, Frostwire (when limewire went to shit). I'd say Kazaa was the one I used the most though during its time. Moved to torrents for movies/tv shows pretty quickly and limewire/frostwire for mp3s. Piratebay, ISOHunt, Demonoid (god i was so happy getting an invite there at 13 years old), mininova.
I was an addict. Would download shit I didn't need and just use it because. Literally spent years learning how to animate in 3dsMax just because my brother in law told me that he "stole" a program that cost thousands of dollars. I think the keygen I downloaded for that was actually my first "letter" from Comcast. It scared the shit out of me at 14.
Bear share, warez, there were private aol chat room with bots you would ping to email you files, then irc was like hitting gold when I was a kid going through warez chatrooms for everything.
I don't know why but "Bear Share" became a joke between me and my friends. It was like we made fun of one kid for using it instead of whatever we were using at the time. I don't remember why but that's all I remember about it. Makes me laugh now. Joking with one of our friends about what P2P client was the best.