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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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Where I work, there's a computer museum. I was going through some boxes and found this. The real jem here is the 16bit version.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

4 floppy disks: 1.44 MB x 4 = 5.76 MB for 2 versions of a web browser
This image: 12.7 MB

This post neatly replicated the one-line-at-time loading of a pic from back then, though!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

omg the image is that big?! LOL I thought it was compressed it better because it changed it to a png for the site. I will keep that in mind next time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Man I miss the meteor storm icon. Can we bring this stuff back please?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The information superhighway. What a wild time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why are those SD cards so big?

Kidding...I'm 40.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Daddy, why are there four save icons?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I still remember installing Win95 via diskettes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is a jem a gem wearing jeans?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This is truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.