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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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Doom I and II, Rise of the Triad. Windows 3.1. Anyone else old enough to remember floppy swapping?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

These youngsters and their modern floppy witchwork. We real cavemen used tapes. And they were so much cooler than punchcards 😁

Nothing beats "insert disk 3592"after a day of loading only to see disk #3592 sadly had an error. Maybe a slight exaggeration, but...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A tape loading error after like 10 minutes always felt bad. I had a handful of games that I could never play.

Being able to fit like 5 games on a single tape was pretty cool though. Better than these mountains of floppies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Hehe, yeah tapes had their up 'n downs. But for an impatient dude like me, they were infuriating... Still lightyears ahead of typing in hex-data from hundreds of pages in magazines for weeks, just to end up with a mildly working version of snake.

And nowadays a cheap phone is a gazillion times more powerful in every possible aspect. Never even dreamed that big and here we are.