Welcome To The Old Internet Again!

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[–]VantaFount 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

Even if this website doesn't have a sound playing....I can still hear it......and it's a midi file......
The 90s internet was fucking awful, and I miss it so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpMlwVwydo

[–]sodasplash 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (7 children)

I remember downloading naked photos of Cindy Crawford in 1996 on dial up. Every photo took soooo long to come through.

[–]VantaFount 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

And you cherished those pictures, dedicating 1/2 of a 3.5 floppy to save it!

[–]sodasplash 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Actually I’m pretty sure I still have them burned on a CD somewhere ;-)

[–]VantaFount 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

Ooh, CDs, look at this fancy schmancy fucker here! Those optical disks are surely just a fad. Durable data storage is what people really want. Like the ZIP drive!

[–]redacted 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

ZIP DRIVE!

100 megabytes of storage POWEEERR!

Absolutely the last backup solution you will ever ever need.

[–]FormosaOolong 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

on a SCSI connection!

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I had a Jaz drive at one point, the 1GB zip drive that never caught on

[–]sodasplash 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

lol. My ex gf wanted to get a bunch of stuff off her old laptop but was concerned that it might be too much memory. I handed her a Zip drive that was 3 times larger than her laptop’s capacity.

But yes, CD’s do have nice staying power — if you can find something to play them...