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Ah, the good old times when I had to find and commission someone with a CD burner to copy Red Alert for me...
I was a bit before that, my group of friends liberally shared 5 1/4" floppies with C64 games on them. I also remember a demo being passed around where someone (not one of my friends) managed to encode about 10 scratchy seconds of "Why can't this be love?" by Van Halen onto a 360K floppy disk and it was amazing at the time.
Damn. A friend asked me to recover his and his brother's c64 floppy collection of like 200 disks. I got several including his porn collection