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It was a simpler time (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I remember downloading games from sketchy Warez sites on the school computers because they had a T1 line and I had dialup. They'd come in Floppy-sized segments; I'd go home each day with a stack of 10-15 floppies, copy the segment to my drive, delete it from the disk, and go back the next day to collect more. It would take weeks to get a whole game, and that's only if the warez site didn't disappear before I finished collecting parts. Then there was the butt clencher moment when I'd try to unpack the whole thing and see if it actually worked or not which, most of the time, it did not.

Those were the days.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 8 points 4 days ago

CRC ERROR. CHECK ARCHIVE AND TRY AGAIN.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

ah man I remember unzipping 50 part rar files only to find another 50 part zip files inside. All because of some IRC file size limit or something.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

I bought a first gen zip drive for home because the school had one PC with one and I wanted to avoid the floppy fest lmao.