• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    Oh, yeah, the browser wars. As a designer during that time, having to learn 5 or more versions of css and JavaScript (which were sometimes competing and broke one another) before code pages were a thing was a nightmare.

    And getting kicked off dial-up because someone decided to make a phone call when a large game download was at 97% complete after 5 hours before file caching was really a thing was infuriating.

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        4 days ago

        Do you mean these?

        They were part of a continuity ritual we performed before they installed cupholders in computers. You’d have to feed them to your pc one at a time when requested, often whilst entering an incantation in the command prompt. The meaning may have been lost to time, we still use their icon to honour that ritual.

        (I can’t believe I found these so quickly.)

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          3 days ago

          I’ll just leave these here…

          …raspberry pi 4B for scale 'cos i can’t put by banana next to them, this ain’t the 90s ya know?

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          Came across a bunch that have old backups of someone’s data. Also some 5 1/4". Not sure if magnets or a hammer/scissors is the best security destruction 😆