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I see a lot of technology nostalgia from people these days, so this thread is for counter-nostalgia from people who lived through it.
- Backing everything up three times because floppy disks could be shit
- Not having the money to buy enough floppy disks to back everything up three times so inevitably losing something
- Having mountains of floppy disks
- Different floppy disk types and some friends not having the same drive as you
- A game comes out that looks awesome but on a floppy disk format you can't use
- You buy a game and you immediately have to make a backup in case the original gets fucked because you can't afford to buy it again
- No internet
- Long distance fees to reach the actual good BBSes
- Having to know all prefixes in your service area to avoid aforementioned long distance
- BBS wars
- Download limits to stop people hogging the line
- Download/upload ratios on some shitty boards
- Terrible download speeds
- Line noise (before ymodem or zmodem protocols you might as well fucking forget downloading on a noisy line)
- Your computer not being fast enough to handle most zmodem implementations in your favorite terminal client
- Porn was hard to come by
- Porn was displayed in 256 colors (or less!)
- Porn images might draw in on your screen about as slow as it took to download it in the first place, every time you wanted to look at it
- You couldn't preview porn images before downloading so you got a lot of shitty porn
- Barely any disk space to store the shitty porn which you kept anyway because it's porn
- No such thing as video porn for download, nor video or audio codecs to even make it
That's enough for now, anyone else?
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>>57349715
my suffering (from CD-ROM age):
>19GB HDD
>OS takes up 10B
>have to juggle the space - constantly installing and uninstalling shit
>bloatware started to rear its ugly head into scene at that time
>a lot of programs were not installed since I just couldn't spare enough space for them
>I also had to store a lot of stuff on CD's
>and then I had to back up those CD's since they broke/became unreadable for the silliest reasons
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>>57349715
I like y our list OP and I raise you:
-ANSI Bombs
-Buying computer and drive is full of games with .bat menu to launch them
-Porn was hard to come by and sometimes it was a shit animated CGA/EGA image
-TURBO button on case actuallyu made shit faster
-learning how to compress shit better, instead of using a 2 floppy disks, getting down to one.
-DOS file managers
-Music in .MOD files, everybody had the Beverly Hills Cop tune.
-playing games over modem calling your friend house
-Feeling God by playing DOOM against friends in coax network lan party
-trading programs with friends everyday
-discovering mp3 and winamp
-gettting bitches left and right from IRC
-fuckign around with assholes infected with NetBus or Back Orifice.
-Never paying for a dial-up account because you did shit or got info on people and traded in accounts with other people
-Going dual monitors with 24" Flat CRTs huge as a fucking container and using a tenkeyless mech keyboard.
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>>57349715
Nobody used floppy disks, CDs just came out and were much better.
Porn could easily be found.
Everything else seems about right.
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>>57350043
i used floppies right up until the early 2000's
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There's a goddamn good reason why we are happy with every small advancement in tech.
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>>57350043
>Nobody used floppy disks
I was required to have a floppy disk for school, and a shitton of games/software were on multiple floppy disks.
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>First desktop I bought had no internet because parents wouldn't let me run a telephone line to my room.
>Moving software/etc. by floppy disk.
>Moving visual basic by floppy disk.
Shit sucked.
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>>57350688
>Installing Windows 95...
>Please insert disk 34.
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>Lost the driver Floppy/CD for a sound card, peripheral, or any other device on the motherboard.
>Well, i guess you're fucked.
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>Need to upgrade BIOS
>Bends the pins on the new BIOS chip while trying to insert it in the socket.
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>Wrong IRQ, DMA or I/O Channel
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