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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    The internet? At those prices?

    We had to go to each others houses to look at CD-ROMs!

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      Fancy. Who could afford a CD-ROM drive at those prices?

      We had boxes of floppy disks and BBS to get us through.

      • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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        Oh, I remember loading lemmings from a floppy as a 7 yearold

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        Luxury.

        I had to load my games in from tape!

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          Tape?

          Now let me tell you about punched cards…

          … that were used long before I was born.

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            'course I say tape, it was more like a code listing in a magazine, but it were a tape to us!

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            My dad used punch cards.

            He’s dead.

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            Back in my day we had books, that we had to share, and we LIKED it.

            • Entropywins@lemmy.world
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              Books? Back in my day we had cuneiform tablets.

              • Comment105@lemm.ee
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                A literal god or the worst ever homeschooled kid walks among us.

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          That’s how I started too.

      • mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world
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        I remember looking at the CD Roms before our computer had one.

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      Load up Encarta.

      • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
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        Or Mavis Beacon!

        • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
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          and where in the fuck is Carmen San Diego

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            Oregon Trail was my jam.

          • moving to lemme.zip. @lemm.ee
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            Funny… I remember “where in the world is Carmen San Diego” but I don’t remember “where the fuck is Carmen San Diego”

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