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Back in my day, you couldn't install an I/O shield without slicing your fingers off.

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Back in my day, you couldn't install an I/O shield without slicing your fingers off.

I just can't install and I/O shield. They are hard for me for some reason.

 

Back in my day Dell where getting rid of Deltas for CPU coolers. 

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I miss my early age days with my uncle's Pentium III PC running Windows 98 and playing Age of Empires, Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Road Rash, Need For Speed 1 ...

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Mobile phones were the size and weight of a brick.

I had a few Nokias and Motorolas cellular phones that were like that. Remember pulling out the antenna on those when in a call.

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Back in my day, we are still using the stupid big fat PATA (IDE) Cable to plug our hard disk, there is not hot swap and you have to know which plugs which and you still need to plug in jumpers!

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Back in my day downloading something above 5GB took a day.

I guess that means I'm living in the past.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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I remember the Dell XPS laptop commercial with the lollipop song in the background (in the U.S.A.) and it was I guess at the Dell factory and they were throwing around the different laptops

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I remember the Dell XPS laptop commercial with the lollipop song in the background (in the U.S.A.) and it was I guess at the Dell factory and they were throwing around the different laptops

I remember when Dell had the stoner dude selling computers...'duuuudeee, you're gettin a dell!!'

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Goddamn IDE cables.

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Here is a few other to add to the list:

  • Gateway Inc was an OEM (they got bought out by Acer)
  • Compaq (an OEM) wasn't owned By Hewlett Packard
  • CompUSA was still around

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Yeah, IDE was still cool. None of the cases I had back in the day had cable management holes to hide cables behind the motherboard, you just had to cable tie everything. 

 

Yep, was happy rounded IDE cables eventually came out to assist in cable management and improve airflow

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when i helped build my first pc like 10 years ago i remember how BAD cable management was. those ribbon cables........ 

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destroying your hands on those razor sharps edges inside old cases... got sot many cuts... there's probably still a computer out there with a bit of my blood inside >_>

 

Also anything drivers related... Especially SATA and Ethernet.

"Oh you want to install windows? Sorry we can't find your drive, have fun slipstreaming the SATA driver because you don't have a floppy drive! Just hope that it works on the first try though."

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"Oh you need to access the internet? Sorry, what's this internet you speak of? I don't know what that is."

 

The joy of building computers in the Windows XP era... Thank god for Linux live CDs, that just WORK no matter what drivers is required.

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Answering the house phone would kick anyone online off line. 

To note I still have a friend today that this happens too and its funny as hell.

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Installing a game.......... with 5 discs

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back in my day we didnt have no "gaming keyboards" and we was better for it

but really there was only buckling springs

no cherry mx

no alps

no topre

no nothin

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DISCS!  DISCS!  Son WE USED FLOPPY DISK!

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Ohh I guess I'm not old enough : / (but I play games on a floppy disk when I am a kid and also cartridges cause my father gave me his old NES)

 

I'm sorry grandpa

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Back in my day beige coloured pcs were da shit!!

There have been many wars that have rocked the face of Earth, Many have heard of WWI, WWII, The Cold War, The Vietnam War and the Iraq War. But there has been a war that only a handful of humans know.....AMD vs Intel. It all started in 1985 when Intel released the first 32bit processor, the Intel 386. This war has been raging on for decades and Intel and AMD are still at each others throats. Fanboys have been ruthlessly killed, motherboards have been short circuited and most gruesome of all... CPU pins have been bent. Stop this war before it is too late. #STOPTHISWAR

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There have been many wars that have rocked the face of Earth, Many have heard of WWI, WWII, The Cold War, The Vietnam War and the Iraq War. But there has been a war that only a handful of humans know.....AMD vs Intel. It all started in 1985 when Intel released the first 32bit processor, the Intel 386. This war has been raging on for decades and Intel and AMD are still at each others throats. Fanboys have been ruthlessly killed, motherboards have been short circuited and most gruesome of all... CPU pins have been bent. Stop this war before it is too late. #STOPTHISWAR

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I'm only 16, but I remember when I was 4 or 5 when my parents bought a Dell Latitude laptop. Man, those sold for some big money then but now they're just pieces of plastic! :D

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