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[–] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Back in pre-95 days where it was all DOS based, that thing really would make your system a bit peppier. Granted my hard drive was 540mb back then (which was gigantic thank you very much), so we may have evolved a tad. Boy I love tech-back-in-my-day.

Next whipper snapper, let me tell you about the AOL...

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    540mb

    🤯

    My first computer was a 386DX with a 40MB hard drive. Or was it 80. In any case, there was this thing called DoubleSpace. It didn't really double the space but it helped a little.

    Internet came through my unversity's dial up connection. With a cable though, not this thingy you cradle your phone into.

    Browsing actual remote web pages (in plain text, I was a Luddite already then) was quite the experience!

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