That was stupid, posting your license key. Now I can use it too, thanks.
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Submitted 10 months ago by late_night@sopuli.xyz to memes@sopuli.xyz
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LordWiggle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Another commenter posted, you can just get it from Wikipedia
Its been blacklisted by Microsoft for 20 years
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fucking Microsoft! Always ruining my plans!
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 10 months ago
I think that’s the same key I had memorized when I worked for a sketchy PC repair place as a teen.
Dagnet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Typing CD keys was such a feeling when it was for a brand new game you can’t wait to play, pure despair if you mistyped something and it didn’t accept but then you corrected the error, biggest sense of relief of my childhood
DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 10 months ago
My first typing was a game into C64 using machine code. Game magazines at that time dedicated a few pages with lines of hex numbers for games. After typing 4 pages you had a game.
Unfortunately, I‘ve got my data tape recorder two month later for xmas. And mom was nervous about keeping the power on for days. I entered those numbers quite some times. Load„*“,8,1
Dagnet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s some hardcore ‘cd key’ typing lol
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The joy of typing binary from a magazine into a hex editor :) we did it as two people, one reading, one typing, but I believe we only ever completed one of the smaller listings.
hactar42@lemmy.world 10 months ago
lunarul@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I remember when I first saw floppies and how amazing it was to load things instantly instead of waiting minutes for a game to load from a cassette tape.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lol you rich kids and your cassette drives. I cut my teeth on my friend’s VIC-20 which didn’t have a hard disk or a tape drive (they were available but my friend’s parents couldn’t afford one). If we wanted to play a game, we had to type it in in BASIC every time.
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
This is so old, so old that Memorex is where my dad worked back in the day. I’m also old. Goddamnit.
Psythik@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Did your dad ever find out if it was real, or if it was Memorex?
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
If you get old enough everyone’s parents used to work for a big tech company. My mother who can barely operate her phone, used to work for a company that manufactured microchips.
noxypaws@pawb.social 10 months ago
ahh yes, the good old bunch of games on a disk. my grandpa went so hard that he had a printed catalog of which games were on which number-stickered disk
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Holy shit… I’m Pitfall old too. What a shit game.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You shut your pretty little whore mouth! I loved Pitfall!
…but also I was 4, and as we all know, kids are stupid.
dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
LOAD “*”,8,1 . I was there, too shakes cane and ruffles grey hairs (It was a wonderful era. The current generation doesn’t know what they missed.)
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 10 months ago
Non No Falsch Nee
all of those work in German.capt_wolf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fucking Geos man… I remember doing homework on its word processor…
umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
[deleted]Resol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I miss when they just sent free CDs.
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
Damn, I think I once asked for their version 8 CD, was amazed at it!
AugustWest@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Windows XP is what made me switch to Linux.
Ubuntu is what made me stick with ANY distro as long as it was not Ubuntu. Most crashy breaky thing ever.
slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
That’s funny, me too! I switched to Mandrake or Mandriva. I liked Ubuntu (Kubuntu specifically), and never had any crash issues, but I wound up going to gNewSense and then Trisquel when those came out.
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
what’s the license number for Ubuntu?
zarathustra0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Here it is friend: is.gd/KsDt5M
Resol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Finally, now I don’t need to have to call a number to get my XP activated, I can just use this.
For those not in the know, XP’s activation requirements are so harsh that your computer just gets disabled completely after the 30 day grace period if you don’t activate at all. I live in a place where people really don’t tend to buy operating systems, so this was a gigantic letdown.
You know what? Fuck Windows XP. There. I said it. And I’m taking the downvotes without remorse.
proceduralnightshade@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Fuck Windows XP
I think it’s allowed to hate anti-customer practices and have good memories of an actually somewhat user-friendly OS that just worked for many people in many other regards.
I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should’ve been the last Windows.
So I am not mad at you. You shall be forgiven, and I am even going to turn the other cheek and give you an upvote. It’s what Windows XP would’ve wanted me to do, too, I am sure of it.
Resol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Your opinion shall forever be respected.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should’ve been the last Windows.
Windows 7 was the first and last version that I didn’t immediately (and lastingly) despise. Something something stopped clocks etc.
urhovaldeko@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I had the same key on my XP disc.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What the hell? That’s the same combination as my luggage!
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life! That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How do you know my WiFi password???
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was thinking the same thing! I swear I’ve used this key.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
This is the internet. You can say “fuck GW”, it’s fine
waz@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Floppy disk with Win 3.11
RegularJoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Azrael@feddit.org 10 months ago
waz@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Also; You are at a crossroads, there are roads to the north, south and east. There is a dwarf, the dwarf throws an axe at you. The axe misses
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Psythik@lemm.ee 10 months ago
3.1 was my first OS too. JezzBall and Chip’s Challenge went hard.
Shadow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The key that’s so commonly used, it’s in Wikipedia.
A7thStone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
workerONE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I remember a photo of a guy holding the burned XP CD while he’s standing at the front entrance of Microsoft. Pretty cool
stinerman@midwest.social 10 months ago
At one point in my life I had the XP VLK for my university memorized. Now all I remember is the end: BGDBB.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Hey, that’s MY activation key!
faceula@lemmy.world 10 months ago
SP2 enters the chat…
Sup peeps. I’m stable af.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
OS/2 enters the chat.
charonn0@startrek.website 10 months ago
You could write to Microsoft and they would mail you a CD with SP2 on it for free.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’m trying to get my 89 year old dad to set aside the tapes of the first games I programmed on our Commodore 64 in like 1981 when he moves this year. I really want them.
Early mud stuff. I’ll post it if he finds it.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
If you do post them, let me know. I’ll spin up an emulator and give them a try!
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I will! Just so you know, I was 12, so I cant vouch for the quality of writing or gameplay, lol.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unethical life pro trip. If you are installing windows xp through 7 and need a license key, just search on eBay for “Laptop Parts Only” and find an auction where someone was nice enough to post one.
DerDudemeister@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve seen far more copies like this than original XP discs. It was the style at that time!
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I remember reading a conspiracy theory that this key was purposely put in by a liberal employee who believed everything should be free and that’s why the first 5 digits are FCKGW - fuck George w - and that it was the volume license for Lockheed Martin or something
It’s not true but interestingly this key was leaked before windows xp even came out, like a month before, and it’s suspected to be a VLK from dell
Nowadays they’d probably say leftist
TrendigOsthyvel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My dude, you shouldn’t post the key in open 🫣
wyrmroot@programming.dev 10 months ago
I can smell this photo
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Ah yes, the ozone-plastic top notes with an undertone of Doritos and Mt. Dew. And is that a slight hint of cheap beer?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Should have left “Win XP” out. We know FCKGW. ☺️
uberdroog@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Goretantath@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And how many of them are scratched to death?
uberdroog@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This was taken a few years back. They are all ona USB drive now.
Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 10 months ago
J3QQ4-…
I don’t remember if that was from XP or 98…
AtariDump@lemmy.world 10 months ago
98
Spider89@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Does it count that I am 20 and have spindles of blank old CD/DVD spindles?
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You have spindles of spindles? That counts, yes.
Spider89@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Fixed.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Not exactly Workbench 3 disk 1 is it?
tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Came here to post just that :D
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Please. You’re talking to a man here who ripped his entire CD collection into iTunes … and then backed his library up on 1.44 MB floppies.
PillowD@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was thinking the album yes fragile. Check it out on on youtube. The song roundabout if nothing else.
criticon@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
My PC didn’t support boot from CD, so I had to use about 6 WinXP floppies just to load the necessary drives to install from the CD. Good times
I think we also had the Win 95 and 98 installallers somewhere although I learned how to do it when upgrading from 98 to ME
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
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state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Original copies? WTF? I mean, I had this version too, but I never ever saw the originals my disks were a copy of.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Here in former Yugoslavia, we got one original copy that got distributed to (probably) the whole country. Old times were so fun.
natecox@programming.dev 10 months ago
lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Now I want to brag with my CPM3.0 floppies for the C128… But parents sold the computer when I wasn’t looking :(
slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
:’(