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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨late_night@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨memes@sopuli.xyz⁩

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Original copies? WTF? I mean, I had this version too, but I never ever saw the originals my disks were a copy of.

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      • PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Here in former Yugoslavia, we got one original copy that got distributed to (probably) the whole country. Old times were so fun.

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      • natecox@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now I want to brag with my CPM3.0 floppies for the C128… But parents sold the computer when I wasn’t looking :(

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      • slappypantsgo@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        :’(

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That was stupid, posting your license key. Now I can use it too, thanks.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Another commenter posted, you can just get it from Wikipedia

      Its been blacklisted by Microsoft for 20 years

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      • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fucking Microsoft! Always ruining my plans!

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    • Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think that’s the same key I had memorized when I worked for a sketchy PC repair place as a teen.

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  • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • DrunkenPirate@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s some hardcore ‘cd key’ typing lol

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      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • hactar42@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m this old

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    • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is so old, so old that Memorex is where my dad worked back in the day. I’m also old. Goddamnit.

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      • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Did your dad ever find out if it was real, or if it was Memorex?

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Holy shit… I’m Pitfall old too. What a shit game.

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You shut your pretty little whore mouth! I loved Pitfall!

        …but also I was 4, and as we all know, kids are stupid.

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    • dparticiple@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.)

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Non No Falsch Nee
      all of those work in German.

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    • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fucking Geos man… I remember doing homework on its word processor…

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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    • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I miss when they just sent free CDs.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Damn, I think I once asked for their version 8 CD, was amazed at it!

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    • AugustWest@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • slappypantsgo@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      what’s the license number for Ubuntu?

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      • zarathustra0@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Here it is friend: is.gd/KsDt5M

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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  • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • proceduralnightshade@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Your opinion shall forever be respected.

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • urhovaldeko@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had the same key on my XP disc.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What the hell? That’s the same combination as my luggage!

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      • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

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      • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How do you know my WiFi password???

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    • Grimtuck@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was thinking the same thing! I swear I’ve used this key.

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the internet. You can say “fuck GW”, it’s fine

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think people say “fuck Games Workshop” even on reddit

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was thinking “Fuck George W”

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  • waz@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Floppy disk with Win 3.11

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    • RegularJoe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, I have also installed windows from a very small stack of floppies. Windows 3.1 Image

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      • Azrael@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • waz@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      3.1 was my first OS too. JezzBall and Chip’s Challenge went hard.

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  • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The key that’s so commonly used, it’s in Wikipedia.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing

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  • A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the oldest I currently have pictures of.

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  • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • stinerman@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At one point in my life I had the XP VLK for my university memorized. Now all I remember is the end: BGDBB.

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey, that’s MY activation key!

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  • faceula@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    SP2 enters the chat…

    Sup peeps. I’m stable af.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OS/2 enters the chat.

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    • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You could write to Microsoft and they would mail you a CD with SP2 on it for free.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you do post them, let me know. I’ll spin up an emulator and give them a try!

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      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I will! Just so you know, I was 12, so I cant vouch for the quality of writing or gameplay, lol.

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • DerDudemeister@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve seen far more copies like this than original XP discs. It was the style at that time!

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This old.

    Almost had this memorized but had a friend I could call who had done so.

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  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • TrendigOsthyvel@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My dude, you shouldn’t post the key in open 🫣

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  • wyrmroot@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can smell this photo

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    • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Should have left “Win XP” out. We know FCKGW. ☺️

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  • uberdroog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Goretantath@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And how many of them are scratched to death?

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      • uberdroog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This was taken a few years back. They are all ona USB drive now.

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  • Lembot_0002@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    J3QQ4-…

    I don’t remember if that was from XP or 98…

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      98

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  • Spider89@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does it count that I am 20 and have spindles of blank old CD/DVD spindles?

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You have spindles of spindles? That counts, yes.

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      • Spider89@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fixed.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not exactly Workbench 3 disk 1 is it?

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    • tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Came here to post just that :D

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • PillowD@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was thinking the album yes fragile. Check it out on on youtube. The song roundabout if nothing else.

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  • criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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