How about walking home with a VHS tape and nothing to hide it with. The "movie": Debbie does Dallas.
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Timing your family leaving the house so you could watch a "movie" in the loungeroom.
Kids today with their own portable devices in their bedrooms have no idea how risky it was for us.
There was a VHS passed around my high school, cleverly disguised with both the sleeve and sticker for the comedy classic "Airplane!" but was in fact Jenny McCarthys Playboy video. There's enough in that previous sentence to sufficiently approximate my age haha
Burning cds!
I was trying to burn a copy of a game from my friend. It failed over and over. Eventually it succeeded and I was able to play return to castle wolfeinstein.
Not sure if it failed due to copy protection or whatever, but I played that game a bunch back in the day. In more recent years I just bought it for like $1
I got sent to the principals office for making a copy of an Apple II system diskette.
Nah CDs were too expensive. It was Zip Disks or Floppies all the way
Floppies were where it was at for us
I never knew anyone with a zip disk
My family had a zip drive growing up. Then again, my dad is a doctor, so our income might have had something to do with it.
super popular at universities and schools where stuff wouldn't fit on 1.44mb floppies.
they died at astonishingly fast rates, often starting the click of death after a few weeks of read/writes. fucking iomega.
Or they faxed it to you
Yeah, I did a fair amount of "homework" in the 90s.
Only 612MB? That's a waste of free 4.1GB in a nice DVD disk. Let me fill it up for you
4.1GB in the 90's? DVD's didn't come out until mid-late 90's and weren't that common. It would likely have been a 700mb CD which were much more common.
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I was sure the size of regular CDs were 512MB, which was the reason I said DVD.
It's weird the meme explicitly says CD-ROM and you're talking about DVDs, which are not CD-ROMs
I was pointing DVD out because CDs had 512MB, which are less than 612MB, so that disk must be actually a DVD disk.
Did you know that this information can be easily googled, and you don't have to double down? A writable CD most typically contains between 650 and 700 MB of capacity.