How about walking home with a VHS tape and nothing to hide it with. The “movie”: Debbie does Dallas.
Timing your family leaving the house so you could watch a “movie” in the loungeroom.
Kids today with their own portable devices in their bedrooms have no idea how risky it was for us.
I believe this explains why a lot of us have developed tinitis. Experts point to headphones and loud music as the cause but I theorise that out of shear survival instinct we had to develop super sensitive hearing and the ability to separate the smooth sounds of a saxophone and moaning with the distant sound of a car door or car tires pulling into a gravel driveway
There was a VHS passed around my high school, cleverly disguised with both the sleeve and sticker for the comedy classic “Airplane!” but was in fact Jenny McCarthys Playboy video. There’s enough in that previous sentence to sufficiently approximate my age haha
Burning cds!
I was trying to burn a copy of a game from my friend. It failed over and over. Eventually it succeeded and I was able to play return to castle wolfeinstein.
Not sure if it failed due to copy protection or whatever, but I played that game a bunch back in the day. In more recent years I just bought it for like $1
There were lots of variables to ensure a good cd was burned correctly. Quality of the burner, the quality of cds (from having used hundreds of them, they really had varying qualities) and a big one was the speed of the burn. Lot’s of cds did not work for me when the burning speed was too high, for a good one to happen it had to be done in low speed. Also software to burn them sometimes fucked things up, I remember a time when Nero was destroying a bunch of my cds.
And then the copy protections of some influenced many copies, some made it very difficult. But at least we had cracks and all the warez around. Good times.
Plextor CDRWs with Verbatim 50yr gold disks ftw.
I remember my brother and I having to set it to 1x speed and leave the room and pray the software didn’t hang. No one was allowed to use the computer for anything while it was burning a disc. Lol. So much anticipation!
Early burners if you touched the desk even slightly that little bump would cause the burn to fail. Also you had to stop every other program from running. Screen saver kicked in … enjoy your new coaster… You just had a buffer underrun while trying to render some flying toasters.
Burning disks was failing because of the PC’s inability to keep the bufferr full all the time in the rate that the disk was spinning. You were selecting write speed. Let’s say 24x. If you started doing something else on the PC and it prioritized that, it could reach to a point that it didn’t have available in the buffer memory the next set of data to be written. The disk writer couldn’t dynamically reduce the speed of spinning. So it ended up having nothing to write at said position. Then it could not resume. It all should happen in one go.
Nah CDs were too expensive. It was Zip Disks or Floppies all the way
Or they faxed it to you
Floppies were where it was at for us
I never knew anyone with a zip disk
My family had a zip drive growing up. Then again, my dad is a doctor, so our income might have had something to do with it.
I’ve got a handful of zip disks, but no drive. I asked on the town bulletin board and nobody else seems to have one I can borrow. It was a short-lived intermediate format, so I’m not surprised.
super popular at universities and schools where stuff wouldn’t fit on 1.44mb floppies.
they died at astonishingly fast rates, often starting the click of death after a few weeks of read/writes. fucking iomega.
Cds didn’t get the click of death like almost every zip disk did.
I have tons of working zip disks.
But an cdr burner in the 90s were expensive
Ah, the good old times when I had to find and commission someone with a CD burner to copy Red Alert for me…
I was a bit before that, my group of friends liberally shared 5 1/4" floppies with C64 games on them. I also remember a demo being passed around where someone (not one of my friends) managed to encode about 10 scratchy seconds of “Why can’t this be love?” by Van Halen onto a 360K floppy disk and it was amazing at the time.
As far as C64 goes, when I was young there were radio broadcasts with C64 games. You’d record them on tape and then put that in the comodore…
Yep. And it never worked 😅
Damn. A friend asked me to recover his and his brother’s c64 floppy collection of like 200 disks. I got several including his porn collection
This is more 00’s. Mid-00’s it was DVDs full of homework lol
Gotta love blurry titties
I’ll never forget the days of watching the image load line by line to reveal tittie
Ah the days when being on the Internet was a deliberate act rather than a passive one
Just go to Germany if you want to experience this again!
By the way, does fax support colors now, or is it still black & white?
I don’t know, I just do everything in person when I have to do stuff with the government.
You could put a set of weights mext to computer and lift while it loaded. jacked in no time
Only 612MB? That’s a waste of free 4.1GB in a nice DVD disk. Let me fill it up for you
It’s weird the meme explicitly says CD-ROM and you’re talking about DVDs, which are not CD-ROMs
I was pointing DVD out because CDs had 512MB, which are less than 612MB, so that disk must be actually a DVD disk.
Did you know that this information can be easily googled, and you don’t have to double down? A writable CD most typically contains between 650 and 700 MB of capacity.
4.1GB in the 90’s? DVD’s didn’t come out until mid-late 90’s and weren’t that common. It would likely have been a 700mb CD which were much more common.
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I was sure the size of regular CDs were 512MB, which was the reason I said DVD.
Also the meme clearly says cd-rom :D
612mb for homework in the 90s 😆
… we used analog format for homework back then! Our tools were mare out of chopped procesed wood and coal! 😜😁
I’m just happy the meme doesn’t say “pov” incorrectly
It’s a “yfw”.
Yeah, i hate it.
Yeah, I did a fair amount of “homework” in the 90s.
Well yeah, I didn’t want to do the homework. It’s someone else’s problem now.
I got sent to the principals office for making a copy of an Apple II system diskette.
