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Nostalgia

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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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[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cracked XP install missing crucial DLLs, GatorWallet toolbar on IE 4, but Doom runs great and it cranks out a paper when needed.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What do you mean, missing DLLs? Just download the missing DLLs from dll.com

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I bootlegged that shit, too. All 240p of it.

[–] MeatCat@dubvee.org 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You forgot to mention the sound system hooked up instead of PC speakers and everyone's AIM sounds blasting down the hallway. Good times.

[–] Ghost33313@beehaw.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For me, it was a 5.1 surround sound setup localized entirely around my chair.

[–] MeatCat@dubvee.org 1 points 3 days ago

Our dorms were all block walls, so didn't really matter where the speakers were pointed. If your door was open everyone could hear everything. Was always fun logging into AIM and then hearing 10 doors simultaneously creaking open down the hall 😂

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 3 days ago

Winamp with an Evangelion skin

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

They’re insane to get that much for one of these space heaters.

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago

Age of empires 2. Habbo hotel. Music match jukebox.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago
[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I still have that exact model of Dell sitting in a closet. Was in regular use until around 2014 or so. Even ran Vista on it for a while.

It was not my dorm room PC though, that was an Athlon XP box I put together myself.

[–] softcat@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I remember seeing many a Dell tower with the logo button removed in schools. Apparently collecting them became competitive.

[–] nihilist_hippie@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Yes!! Was hard to find a PC with the logo still on it by the time we graduated!

[–] annoyed_onion@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then you upgrade that cd drive to a lightscribe one and it's like some sort of black magic

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Look at Mr Fancy over here with his Lightscribe discs and not the bulk Dynex discs.

[–] annoyed_onion@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Not to flex but I had 2.