I was under 30 when I made this account.
I no longer am.

Happy birthday!

I talked about the first album I ever bought (midnight oil's 10-1 album), my first boyfriend's car (1979 Gemini), the first cassingle I ever bought (Suzanne Vega) and my first picture disc (Bros). I feel like if you're under 16 you wouldn't understand a percentage of that statement 😆

Most of us carried around about 10 floppies in a case. I had a fancy case that held 15 floppies and expanded out like a little set of stairs.

Most files we carried around were well under 100kb. We didn't carry photos around, digital cameras weren't a thing and we didn't scan photos unless they were going into a specific file or something.

If I did have to carry a file that was larger than 1.44mb, I used arj to compress it and split the archive into 1440kb volumes. Arj had better compression than zip.

After reading through the post I will be jumping ship, later boys I'll see you in another instance

Oh God, oh fuck, you need to close Lemmy ASAP!!! Your brain is about to have the front fall off since your frontal cortex is underdeveloped and can't understand the shit fuck takes on Lemmy.

Not me having no idea what the fuck that is

Ohhh this must be why all the mods were asking me to send them naked photos of myself or be banned; for age verification! Makes so much sense now lol.

Mutha fuckin Zoombinis

It's on Steam BTW.

Love it!

There is no way some other lazy person hasn't done the same thing I did.

Huh. I was going to make some reference to 20-year-olds playing high school kids. But Molly genuinely was sixteen.
Colour me surprised.

Well don't drag me into disrupting australian society please. I have other stuff on my plate already.

No inbuilt hard drive, so it really did fucking matter! (Mac Plus and SE) still love some of the games. Try Fools Errand if you can get the emulator to work 😺

Damn, that's just wild to me. As I said above, I came in near the end of their era, so just storing one project on there was at times stretching the limits of what they could do. It's kind of incredible to think of how far we've come.

To be honest, I've never seen it myself. I only know it through cultural osmosis. I've seen parodies and homages done in a bunch of TV shows.

I have heard it's very good though, so enjoy!

Yes? Had to get them to campus to print and drop in the department office box to get stamped by 5pm or points off.

I will watch it soon.

I just looked for The Breakfast club and found I have a copy. My bad.

I just realised… we’re technically complying with the law by verifying but we’re all DMing a ‘16 year old’.

New legal issue created. /s

I might, it’s just a hassle. I can’t be stuffed.

And I find it kinda plausible. Maybe it wasn’t the main driver, that’s the Australian government having a knee jerk response to look like they’re solving a complex problem. But for lucrative data brokers it is very very convenient.

It would have perhaps been better to give under 16s dumb phones and have a family computer room, or just talk to your damn kid about what they’re doing and seeing online. But that doesn’t dump highly sensitive info out to create advertising profiles and sell.

Dayum, you were using floppies to hold multiple different unrelated files? Like a USB today?

Yes. I’d have the same response if I was able to get out more IRL and youse weren’t some of the only sane people on the internet

Wait, you've never heard of it? Not having seen it is one thing, but never heard of it‽

Yes, I'm sad to say.
Technically is applies to the whole Internet. If an Australian can make an account on your site in Iceland, you're supposed to comply with this law. That said, the government isn't making much of a thing about this, because they know full well that it'll have an adverse affect on the population (those sites will simply block Australia rather than comply). There are a few sites (eg Facebook, YouTube, Instagram) they are getting to comply, because there are Millions of Australians on these sites and it's worth those companies' while to retain these users and comply.

Then the government has a precedent: "See? That site over there complied, if you ever want to be as big as them, you need to also!"

Does that include if accessing the instance from overseas?