Generational Images

[FloofyNewfie]

I typed "shutdown /a" so many times in school it wasn't funny. Fortunately the fools who knew "/m" never learned "/p /f".

Huh, interesting... I didn't know you could use a "/" in lieu of "-". I had to test it out just to see if it worked, I've always just used the minus symbol. You do learn something new everyday.

 

[ShanoirII]

the minus symbol

we upperclassmen call it a 'hyphen'

 

[Ted Danson Machine]

we upperclassmen call it a 'hyphen'

I hear those are painful when they break

lol

 

[dartel]

we upperclassmen call it a 'hyphen'

And we normal people call it a dash. But the pedantic typographers will demand to know if it's an en-dash or an em-dash.

 

[Ted Danson Machine]

Stupid lines and their dumb rules

 

[Ted Danson Machine]

 

[Ted Danson Machine]

 

[dartel]

 

[ShanoirII]

Return the slab.... return the slab.... or suffer my curse....

 

[FloofyNewfie]

we upperclassmen call it a 'hyphen'

If you want to get really fancy you could call it a "bond." What is it? Bond. Words Bond. -007

 

[Caniform]

Fun fact: None of the floppy disks in this photo have enough memory to save this floppy disk photo.

 

[Sir's Desires]

So

So frustratingly memorable!

 

[Sir's Desires]

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Fun fact: None of the floppy disks in this photo have enough memory to save this floppy disk photo.

Had one of the very first IBM PCs. No hard drive, but two floppy drives and a 13" monochrome CRT monitor.

 

[TammCa]

back in the days when people rode their wooly mammoth to work, LOL,LOL

 

[Sir's Desires]

As good as they could get back then

 

[Sir's Desires]

back in the days when people rode their wooly mammoth to work, LOL,LOL

Up hill, both ways. The stories I could tell...like the time I had to fight off a grizzly bear with my 3-ring binder.

 

[Labraguy5]

 

[Twelvepaws]

'90s

 

[humananimal]

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AND to find out that they had to pay for the bad ones too

 

[humananimal]

'90s

I remember my 14.4K modem built in my PC.
Later much faster with ISDN, 64K !!
And today the minimum you can get is about 20.000K

 

[Twelvepaws]

I remember my 14.4K modem built in my PC. Later much faster with ISDN, 64K !!
And today the minimum you can get is about 20.000K

I started with 9600 bps. It is currently 40 Mbps.

 

[humananimal]

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Fun fact: None of the floppy disks in this photo have enough memory to save this floppy disk photo.

My system writes 664Kbyte. My hobby computer (NewBrain) used the middle one, and could hold 800 Kbyte. The computer had an ‘immense’ memory of 64 Kbyte.
But even in that small memory it could handle a spreadsheet (nowadays Excel)
So things have changed a lot.
Like the first mobile phones / cell phones had the same size and weight as a brick.

 

[YIMBY]

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Fun fact: None of the floppy disks in this photo have enough memory to save this floppy disk photo.

Size on Disk: 644KB.

Yes they could!

 

[humananimal]

Size on Disk: 644KB.

Yes they could!

OK, there were differences between systems, because on mine those floppy-discs could hold 800 Kbytes. It must have been around 1980.
Never mind - the idea is to illustrate the big chances. And Cloud-saving didn’t exist either.

 

[Caniform]

Size on Disk: 644KB.

Yes they could!

Ah, dang. That is because Zooville's software re-encoded the image. The uploaded original was exactly 1,595,261 Bytes, so slightly more than the 1,440 KB that the DOS-formatted 3.5" floppy disk manages to hold.

 

[Kwholl]

I grew up in the late 2000s…

Ha, I was early 2000s!

 

[Taopony]

 

[dartel]

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Those are photoshopped, but I owned 8 of them.

 

[Ted Danson Machine]

I wanted to be on this show so much as a kid

 

[Ted Danson Machine]