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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 73 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That was stupid, posting your license key. Now I can use it too, thanks.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Another commenter posted, you can just get it from Wikipedia

Its been blacklisted by Microsoft for 20 years

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

Fucking Microsoft! Always ruining my plans!

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 6 days ago

I think that's the same key I had memorized when I worked for a sketchy PC repair place as a teen.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago (7 children)
[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I remember when I first saw floppies and how amazing it was to load things instantly instead of waiting minutes for a game to load from a cassette tape.

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[–] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

This is so old, so old that Memorex is where my dad worked back in the day. I'm also old. Goddamnit.

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 8 points 6 days ago

ahh yes, the good old bunch of games on a disk. my grandpa went so hard that he had a printed catalog of which games were on which number-stickered disk

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Holy shit… I’m Pitfall old too. What a shit game.

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[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago

Well, I should have Magic User Interface CD for Amiga 3.1 in somewhere. Didn’t find it right now.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 31 points 6 days ago (8 children)
[–] Resol@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

I miss when they just sent free CDs.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Damn, I think I once asked for their version 8 CD, was amazed at it!

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Finally, now I don't need to have to call a number to get my XP activated, I can just use this.

For those not in the know, XP's activation requirements are so harsh that your computer just gets disabled completely after the 30 day grace period if you don't activate at all. I live in a place where people really don't tend to buy operating systems, so this was a gigantic letdown.

You know what? Fuck Windows XP. There. I said it. And I'm taking the downvotes without remorse.

[–] proceduralnightshade@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Fuck Windows XP

I think it's allowed to hate anti-customer practices and have good memories of an actually somewhat user-friendly OS that just worked for many people in many other regards.

I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should've been the last Windows.

So I am not mad at you. You shall be forgiven, and I am even going to turn the other cheek and give you an upvote. It's what Windows XP would've wanted me to do, too, I am sure of it.

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 18 points 6 days ago

Ahhh, the good old copy of windows xp that was stolen from Microsoft a month before release and spread it's beautiful self all around the world, I had that code memorised for a long while, I called it the fuck code.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is the internet. You can say "fuck GW", it's fine

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think people say "fuck Games Workshop" even on reddit

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I was thinking “Fuck George W”

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[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

This is the oldest I currently have pictures of.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 points 6 days ago

Hey, that's MY activation key!

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I’m trying to get my 89 year old dad to set aside the tapes of the first games I programmed on our Commodore 64 in like 1983 when he moves this year. I really want them.

Early mud stuff. I’ll post it if he finds it.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you do post them, let me know. I'll spin up an emulator and give them a try!

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I will! Just so you know, I was 12, so I cant vouch for the quality of writing or gameplay, lol.

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

I remember a photo of a guy holding the burned XP CD while he's standing at the front entrance of Microsoft. Pretty cool

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

Should have left "Win XP" out. We know FCKGW. ☺️

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Unethical life pro trip. If you are installing windows xp through 7 and need a license key, just search on eBay for "Laptop Parts Only" and find an auction where someone was nice enough to post one.

[–] faceula@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

SP2 enters the chat........

Sup peeps. I'm stable af.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 5 days ago

The fact I recognise that key.

(Also my husband agrees with me that looks eerily like my handwriting and is the kind of disk i used OP are you in Australia...)

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago

At one point in my life I had the XP VLK for my university memorized. Now all I remember is the end: BGDBB.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Even still have a copy of 98

[–] Spider89@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Does it count that I am 20 and have spindles of blank old CD/DVD?

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[–] DerDudemeister@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

I've seen far more copies like this than original XP discs. It was the style at that time!

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Not exactly Workbench 1.3 disk 1 is it?

[–] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Came here to post just that :D

[–] M137@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I recently cleaned out some boxes of random stuff I had in one of my wardrobes and found several discs like this, some with Ubuntu 5-8.04, random drivers and other fun stuff. Huge nostalgia trip going through them. I also found this CD my dad gave me when I was 20 and had just started smoking weed:


(the title is in Swedish and means "a chill disc")

Sadly lost him in December last year, RIP dad. I normally don't smoke anymore but I'm gonna get a small piece of hash and smoke it while playing this in memory of him.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Please. You're talking to a man here who ripped his entire CD collection into iTunes ... and then backed his library up on 1.44 MB floppies.

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[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can remember installing Windows 95 with floppy disks, that was slow. XP was great because you could finally do minor things and it not require a reboot.

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[–] PillowD@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I was thinking the album yes fragile. Check it out on on youtube. The song roundabout if nothing else.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days ago

The kids have heard that one, it's the credits song on season 1 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventures.

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