Floppy Disk

[Jeremiah JohnsonParticipant 2219]

Men are at a time when panning for gold in a urinal has a higher probability of success than finding a faithful and loving woman, it is time to go your own way.....

[Anonymous 18]

That’s funny. Those darn 3.5” 8kb floppy disks. I remember taking my grade 9 assignments on them to print at school library. I am becoming the old generation now. I will pretend I am wiser 🙂

[RennieParticipant]

I grew up with floppy disks as well. USB didn’t appear until years after our first computer. Except that these were the 3.5″ 1MB ones. I used floppies to smuggle my first porn and girly pics from the internet computer to my own in later years.

[Anonymous 18]

Rennie wrote:

I grew up with floppy disks as well. USB didn’t appear until years after our first computer. Except that these were the 3.5″ 1MB ones. I used floppies to smuggle my first porn and girly pics from the internet computer to my own in later years.

Thanks for the correction. They were indeed at least a MB or two. 8 kb was perhaps the bigger flexible ones from the early 90’s.

A guy I knew in school used to bring floppies and save porn from library PCs on them for wank sessions at home. I hope he deleted history.

 

[RusskyParticipant 13503]

I remember the first time I saw a computer it was working on perfocards like this and I’m only 36

proud carrier of the 'why?' chromosome

[RusskyParticipant 13503]

Floppy Disk is much better than a Floppy Dick

proud carrier of the 'why?' chromosome

[Anonymous 0]

LOL, funny.

Tell a kid to make a call by using this.

[experiencedParticipant]

   You’re a cruel man Russky. I saw that and felt nauseous. Memories of insurmountable problems that somehow got solved.

 

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"It seems like there's times a body gets struck down so low, there ain't a power on earth that can ever bring him up again. Seems like something inside dies so he don't even want to get up again. But he does."

[Jeremiah JohnsonParticipant 2219]

Perfocards, wow, makes me think about the early days of networking, we were so all alone out there, lol

Men are at a time when panning for gold in a urinal has a higher probability of success than finding a faithful and loving woman, it is time to go your own way.....

[Jeremiah JohnsonParticipant 2219]

I wrote my first program in Pascal. It was 1987 or 88. Five swimmer’s (very blocky btw ) would dive into a pool, and a randomly selected different swimmer would win the race each time. It was so awesome….lol

Men are at a time when panning for gold in a urinal has a higher probability of success than finding a faithful and loving woman, it is time to go your own way.....

[RennieParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

LOL, funny. Tell a kid to make a call by using this.

Also had a rotary phone in the house the first few years of my life.

[Mana KnightParticipant 333]

Ahh I remember Floppy disks. Yep, pre-USB they were the only way to go.
It is laughable now that they held 3.5 mb…that was like 8 word documents, as long as you didn’t go crazy with clip art (which lets face it, you did). Some songs would not even fit on them now!.

But seriously though..

 

Good times 😀

 

[Mana KnightParticipant 333]

I still have a Rotary phone in my room. A real old school 40’s one though, the kind you feel like you should be ringing the Browns to brag how you have a phone with, only to realise they don’t even have one yet – hah!.
I am a strange person. I don’t actually like how advanced technology is 🙁 I am 27, do not own an iphone or ipad.  I hate seeing people on the train – all of them just sitting there looking down. It scares me.

I would have been happy with technology maxing out around 2002. Everything goes too fast for me now, so I do not even try and keep up.

[FullMetalExoParticipant 2383]

I still have plenty of dvd’s scattered around the place and game boxes, I threw floppy discs away in year 2010. Didn’t even save them for novelty factor. Damn, I kinda miss them now haha

Mana Knight wrote:

I still have a Rotary phone in my room. A real old school 40’s one though, the kind you feel like you should be ringing the Browns to brag how you have a phone with, only to realise they don’t even have one yet – hah!. I am a strange person. I don’t actually like how advanced technology is I am 27, do not own an iphone or ipad. I hate seeing people on the train – all of them just sitting there looking down. It scares me. I would have been happy with technology maxing out around 2002. Everything goes too fast for me now, so I do not even try and keep up.

hehe It’s fine mate 😀 We will survive the applecalypse.

I don’t see a point for an overpriced phone to be honest. (unless  I beg to get robbed) .

Just5 Spacer, Russian Designed, Chinese Made, Latvian Smartphone (android) for 140 $ Is beast and a way to go, have one for 2+ years now and runs great. There is now a second one Spacer 2, and Blaster series with even more power output/power hunger ratio. XD

 

And yeh, I see mostly girls who zombie-in in the phone all the time on bus stops etc.

I get tired of my PC and can’t imagine sitting in my phone to be honest all the time, whats the point lol. I enjoy music and nature way more.

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[Mana KnightParticipant 333]

Exactly. 🙂
I spend enough time in my day job on the PC, and then I do creative project/secondary job that require a P.C  (Video editing/screen writing). Why would I want to fill in the inbetweens with more computer oggling is beyond me. (though time spent here is actually enjoyable and therapeutic)

But girls are the worst with this stuff…
I had a girlfriend that would always check her phone on dates 🙁 it was so annoying. In the middle of a restaurant. Or a “really important” message she was expecting on facebook (you just know it could have waited).

[RusskyParticipant 13503]

The most hardcore experience with FDDs I had was when I installed Corel Draw Suite on my 386 using 32 (!!!!) floppy disks. It took me several days because installation hung up many times.

proud carrier of the 'why?' chromosome

[Anonymous 0]

My first Jump & Run Game – Prince of Persia – came on a 3,5″  floppy, datasize of the game 577KB

[FullMetalExoParticipant 2383]

@Mana Knight

Mana Knight wrote:

Exactly. I spend enough time in my day job on the PC, and then I do creative project/secondary job that require a P.C (Video editing/screen writing). Why would I want to fill in the inbetweens with more computer oggling is beyond me. (though time spent here is actually enjoyable and therapeutic) But girls are the worst with this stuff… I had a girlfriend that would always check her phone on dates it was so annoying. In the middle of a restaurant. Or a “really important” message she was expecting on facebook (you just know it could have waited).

Exactly, I think you and me understand that those messages and people opinions online etc. are low priority concern/optional , we got real life/fun to worry about and separate important/enjoyable things from superficial you could say.

Once, I was really in to social networks/chats/voice chats/clan games/team games/journals, checking them daily, it was part of lifestyle, draining much of my time. Now I intentionally separated myself from online as much as possible and don’t care about checking my phone every second. Sometimes I find the battery on low, as I forget about it, it’s all distractions for me.

 

Now it’s only mgtow.com website I care daily to visit as it’s “enjoyable and therapeutic” . ) The rest of internet I don’t care that much, I prefer nature and serenity over it any day now.

@Hollowmile that game was my first platformer, it felt creepy at a time (I played it on MS-DOS pc in school ) and I didn’t beat it and was spiked over and over. Frustrated the s~~~ out of me. 😀

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[Mana KnightParticipant 333]

Yep, I got you there MetalExe! I get all my best ideas out in nature. As I mentioned, I have a secondary career/creative hobby doing screenwriting. Sitting down and staring at a screen is where very little actual ideas come from, I get most of my dialouge out walking by the river or in the park, never fails.

As for Prince of Persia! I had that on the Super Nintendo when I got one in like 1996. It was 2nd hand and just came with it. I never really got to grips with it and also found it a bit spooky.

[Mana KnightParticipant 333]

Yep, I got you there MetalExo! I get all my best ideas out in nature. As I mentioned, I have a secondary career/creative hobby doing screenwriting. Sitting down and staring at a screen is where very little actual ideas come from, I get most of my dialouge out walking by the river or in the park, never fails.

As for Prince of Persia! I had that on the Super Nintendo when I got one in like 1996. It was 2nd hand and just came with it. I never really got to grips with it and also found it a bit spooky.

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