I’m just happy the meme doesn’t say “pov” incorrectly
It’s a “yfw”.
Yeah, i hate it.
How about walking home with a VHS tape and nothing to hide it with. The “movie”: Debbie does Dallas.
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
Gotta love blurry titties
Parents: why is our internet usage so high?
Us: um, Linux ISOs…
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.
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!
Plextor CDRWs with Verbatim 50yr gold disks ftw.
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.
I got sent to the principals office for making a copy of an Apple II system diskette.
Yeah, I did a fair amount of “homework” in the 90s.
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…
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! 😜😁
Well yeah, I didn’t want to do the homework. It’s someone else’s problem now.
This is more 00’s. Mid-00’s it was DVDs full of homework lol
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.
