This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…

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    No, because my country was pretty much too small and poor to have brand-name sharpies, we just had felt pens with other names. Carioca I believe was the most prominent brand back then.

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    Record off the radio to cassette and an active market for pirated live shows because we lived past nowhere and it was all we had access to.

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    This isn’t very old lol. That computer could be from 2010 and CD’s and Sharpies were used then. Also, LimeWire was functional until like late 2010.

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    I can still sorta remember as a kid, sitting down at a chunky old Dell PC running Windows XP, while my dad inserted a CD for some Go Diago go computer game.

    We still have that old computer. We tried to throw Linux on it to see if we could use it for something but I think it’s truly beyond saving.

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    Old enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games.

    The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.