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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ama bout to score me a free copy of XP 😏

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• hungrythirstyhorny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  that is so cute… less than 1gb

  missed that day

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• mumblerfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Older than this. I stopped before XP.

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  • memeconsumer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How do you stop, please teach me master.

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    • mumblerfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I installed Ubuntu, and never looked back. I’d recommend trying it, and I hope it fits you too.

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• Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  Well, I should have Magic User Interface CD for Amiga 3.1 in somewhere. Didn’t find it right now.

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• Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Real Gs had Windows XP Black Edition burned to a CD. This appears to be vanilla XP.

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• nuko147@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  MF, i had the same, same disc, same key lmao

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m worried about a bunch of 3.5" floppies I have that I used to store a bunch of personal documents and journal writing from high school.

  I haven’t seen any of these documents for years because it’s been a long time since I had a system with a floppy drive.

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  • everett@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    USB floppy drives aren’t expensive.

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s also just laziness and time on my part. I have a couple of ancient systems in my basement that I haven’t started in years that I think still have a floppy drive but it would take work for me to start up and sort out, then figure out how to transfer everything over.

      And I haven’t motivated myself for that considering it would all be for about 10MB of data?

      It’s amazing when you think about it. Thirty years when I made those floppies, it was like gold and I felt like I was holding an immense amount of data in a 1.5 MB floppy disk. And it wasn’t easy to move the data around and it took an obvious amount of time to see the data being transferred.

      Now we snap a photo with an average smartphone to generate a 20 megapixel image onto a 4 MB file in the blink of an eye … every day … all the time … hundreds, thousands of times without any effort at all.

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thx for the key shithead

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Have fun with XP? Not sure Microsoft even cares anymore

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    • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They didn’t even care back then, they sure as fuck don’t care now.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Even still have a copy of 98

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• M137@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I recently cleaned out some boxes of random stuff I had in one of my wardrobes and found several discs like this, some with Ubuntu, random drivers and other fun stuff. Huge nostalgia trip going through them. I also found this CD my dad gave me when I was 20 and had just started smoking weed:

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  Sadly lost him in December last year. RIP dad, I normally don’t smoke anymore but I’m gonna get a small piece of hash and smoke it while playing this in memory of him.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The fact I recognise that key.

  (Also my husband agrees with me that looks eerily like my handwriting and is the kind of disk i used OP are you in Australia…)

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• ansiz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I can remember installing Windows 95 with floppy disks, that was slow. XP was great because you could finally do minor things and it not require a reboot.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I still have 46 disks of Office floatinf around somewhere

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• HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  laughs in C64 BASIC

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• AugustWest@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No.

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• natecox@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ll take my huge stack of Windows 3.1 floppies and see myself out.

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  • Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Windows 3.1 was only like 7 disks.

    The giant pile of floppies was Windows 95, at more than 100. And the Windows 98 upgrade CD. would ask for a random one several times during a clean install, so we had those things for a while.

    As for showing my actual age, when I was a kid my dad bought an Amstrad PC1512, a mostly DOS machine with two 5.25" floppy drives and no hard drive.

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• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I memorized that key out of pure usage. Good times.

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  • beveradb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh wow you just reminded me I did too at one point. Wild to think back on that part of my life, I’ve barely touched windows in over 10 years but man at one point so much of my brain was filled with windows related junk

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I actually had a Windows 98 CD at one point. Pirated, of course. The keys that I had were kinda stolen from the IT department that I was working for, at the time.

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• aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At least 35. Maybe closer to 40.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I was going to disagree with you because I had a copy of Windows XP on the disc in my drawer, but then I remembered that I am 35 so thanks for that.

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• Zerfallen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I memorised this key, mainly due to LAN parties, since someone would always have some issue that needed them to reinstall Wndows. To this day i can recite it in full at any time. Also my library card number from when i was 12 (in case i forgot my card at home).

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• barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not real. The Bs and 8s are clearly different.

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• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Leaked an installation key? Microsoft is gonna send a helicopter to raid you…

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Me: This, but Office 2000.

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• HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s cute.

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• gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  before this one, I had a Windows 2000 Professional one with the local education department’s VL key

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• slappypantsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is the implication that this was for someone who was a kid growing up then? Or just that this was a prominent memory of an older teen? Something else?

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  • TheSambassador@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The CD Key written on the CD was a very famous infinite license key that pretty much everyone who had a pirated copy of windows was using. You also used to need to reformat more often for a clean wipe of your computer, so many people got used to entering this specific key.

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    • slappypantsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I appreciate your answer very much, I was just trying to understand the age part of the meme.

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• TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh…

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• Jaybob32@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Press play, FF, together. Count the gaps.

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• Pnut@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I was so good and so careful with my printing when I had to write cd keys down. Nothing like burning something off of your summer vacation friend and then having them go back to the city and you’re off by… something.

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• ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  University keys are available online.

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• morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  damn now my XP serial is public for everyone, I thank you NOT!

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