/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4451749]

Old school computing stories.

Whether it's stories about your personal experiences with what it was like using computers back in the day, or videos/pics of other people, or just any interesting information, it all goes in here.

The more old school the better.

[Anonymous No.4451783]

>>4451749

[Anonymous No.4453260]

>>4451749
>t. never messed with any really old PCs

Okay, so what do you want to know? I mean, I can give you the usual spiel about how my first PC only had 40MB of space to work with and I thought that was more than I'd ever need, or I can talk about the hassle of old Macintosh PCs and trying to write my college thesis on one and having to be incredibly paranoid about if it was going to crash on me or not and I'd have to start over for the 10th time. Actually, funny thing, I got so pissed off at that particular one that after I got my sheet printed out on my very first personal dot-matrix printer (I was so happy I didn't have to go pay to have someone print my shit out for me) that I celebrated that night by throwing it out my dorm-room's 4th floor window, looked down at my paper and realized I forgot to print out my cited sources sheet and ended up borrowing a friend's 386 so I could write up my citations and get them printed out.

As much fun as I had with some of the older tech, MSDOS was a godsend and Windows 3.1 made me incredibly happy.

[Anonymous No.4453510]

>>4451749
>christmas 1997 or so, maybe a little later but whatever
>uncle did a treasure hunt deal for my brother and i
>we basically went around our grandparebts house
>ended at my grandfather's study in the basement
>inside was a conputer he built for us
>it had windows 3.1 and a bunch of games on it

It was cool. We spent so much time playing Incredible Machines and Day of the Tenticle.

He also gave us a stack of bootleg Commodore 64 games one year and a Monkey Island game.

[Anonymous No.4453538]

Having a secret program group in windows 3.1 with porn that I downloaded over 28.8k
Hacking admin privileges at school by finding the PASSWORD= key in the program .ini file
Using netbus to sabotage lectures
Installing quake on the school network drive and causing the whole network to crash
Using the help file to open explorer.exe to bypass log in scripts that restricted access in win95

This was just off the top of my head, it was simpler times back then

[Anonymous No.4453592]

>>4451749
Just noticed the placement of the joystick

[Anonymous No.4453636]

Don't know if this is relevant, but, I'll share it anyway.

Be Army supply clerk a few years back.
Sent to NTC(Ft. Irwin)
Sent with Army [DoD LOCKED DOWN] laptop.
Laptop predictably locks out due to +30days outside secure network.
Have my own toughbook to do forms.
Two weeks with only one powerport that keeps getting hogged by senior non-com to charge his fucking phone, so battery runs dead.
Fuck this shit.
Whip out manual typewriter with pre-printed forms and carbon-paper.
Everyone in company shakes their heads.
Jokes abound.
Still getting my work done.
Explain how I don't need to log in or use electricity.
CSM (Command Sergeant Major) comes by to check-out line companies.
See's me.
"Now that's what I'm talking about!"
Spends half the time talking to me about supply difficulties and lack of key supplies.
Find out later that S-4 got chew-out because of it.
MFW

[Anonymous No.4453650]

Be me.
Interning for highschool computer tech (school work program.)
Be monitoring one of the labs.
Student and teacher can't get one of the 486's to boot.
Check it out.
Some smart-ass set the bios password.
Roll up sleeves.
Crack open case and manually short the bios reset.
Set the computer back up in less than 20min.
No-one ever tried that shit again.

[Anonymous No.4453665]

>>4453538
>Hacking admin privileges at school by finding the PASSWORD= key in the program .ini file
I did things like that in computer shops. Fun times...

[Anonymous No.4453673]

>>4453636
>Find out later that S-4 got chew-out because of it.
What does this bit mean?

[Anonymous No.4453683]

>>4453673
the people that made fun of him got yelled at for not doing their jobs

[Anonymous No.4453772]

I got kicked out of business studies because I was using the command prompt (instead of the crappy RM OS). The teacher assumed that, because she'd never seen that before, that it must be bad.

Then I hear that the class-sized network's little server (a relic even in the mid 90s, with a whopping 60Mb HDD) went down a few days later and apparently I broke it by doing scary text witchcraft things, obviously.

Not that anything came of it.

[Anonymous No.4453779]

>1999
>4th grade
>just got a computer that year
>bullied constantly in school
>make friends online
>every day i cant wait to go home and talk to my "real" friends

[Anonymous No.4453780]

Remember taking a computer typing class my senior year of HS because I knew it would be an easy A thanks to lonely nights spent on Yahoo! Chat and AIM.

Noticed my assigned computer had NES ROMs on it ready to play. Aced every assignment easily and spent the rest of class playing punch out and mario 3 on a keyboard.

[Anonymous No.4453783]

In the late 80s, in junior school, the teacher scolded me for forgetting to "park the Winchester" before shutting a computer down.

Luckily my omission didn't result in the computer exploding and we were able to carry on drawing rude comics on pic related in secret.

[Anonymous No.4453859]

>>4451749
Started with an Apple II
Did none of any of the shit posted ITT with it because none of it existed then
Had a bunch of other systems after that
Spent thousands of retro dollars on that shit

[Anonymous No.4453874]

>>4453510

>uncle did a treasure hunt
>ended at... the basement
>inside... us

You and your bro literally rolled a natural 20, this could have either been so cringeworthy your uncle would never be seen at a Thanksgiving dinner again or he'd be transmuting boulders into rocks for the rest of his days

[Anonymous No.4454151]

>>4453673
S-4: Battalion Supply/Property: Responsible for seeing that the companies have what they need and keep track of Army property.

I had been putting in supply requests for things like .50cal bore brushes that hadn't been filled for like five years.

[Anonymous No.4454449]

>>4453783
>"park the Winchester"

wat.

[Anonymous No.4454524]

All I got is:

>parents get computer
>tech-inept mom doesn't want my older brother going on dirty websites
>installs "net nanny", some password system to stop access to Internet without a password
>forgets the password so no one can go online
>"oh well, no one here really needs to go on the Internet anyway"

I could have fixed it later on but at the time I was 4 and liked basketball, not computers.

[Anonymous No.4454601]

>>4453874
I never realized how creepy it could have turned out until you pointed it out, to be honest.

Eh. That uncle isn't a pedo, nor has he ever given off that kinda vibe. He's pretty chill, still is. When he, my biological aunt and their son come over from another province, I usualy play Minecraft with the kid.

[Anonymous No.4454718]

>>4453859
Apple shit has always been overpriced.

[Anonymous No.4454746]

>>4453783
>"park the Winchester"
What did she mean by this? Unironically.

[Anonymous No.4454756]

>>4454746
Euros park retro guns order to turn off their computers. The continent is weird.

[Anonymous No.4454883]

>>4454746
>>4454756
>The term Winchester comes from an early type of disk drive developed by IBM that had 30MB of fixed storage and 30MB of removable storage; so its inventors called it a Winchester in honor of its 30/30 rifle. Although modern disk drives are faster and hold more data, the basic technology is the same, so Winchester has become synonymous with hard.

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22711/Watford-Electronics-30MB-Winchester-Hard-Drive/

You may not be aware that early hard disks had to have the heads parked manually (well, by issuing a system command) before shutting down the computer.

And the teacher was a man.

[Anonymous No.4454907]

>>4454718
Yes but it used to also once actually be somewhat worth it, as opposed to the current shit where they put features other hardware had two years ago in a white box and charge four times as much.

[Anonymous No.4454945]

>>4454907
>features other hardware had two years ago
Like mice with 2 buttons and a wheel? Try 15 years...

>b-but if Jobs didn't include it then it can't be a feature worth having

[Anonymous No.4455027]

>>4454718
Paid more for my TI and Amiga shit than I did for my Apple.

[Anonymous No.4455190]

>>4454907
When? When the Macintosh was thoroughly beaten by a computer half its price point and two years older?

[Anonymous No.4455280]

>>4453783

PaintSPA?! Fuck. I haven't seen that in like a million years!

[Anonymous No.4455305]

>be me
>dad has a computer
>get primal rage for pc as a birthday gift
>couldn’t get it to run
>complete waste of money

[Anonymous No.4455351]

>>4454945
I was more referencing the early iPhones lagging behind value-priced Nokia phones featurewise, but sure, that works.
Back in the early 90s you could have a mac game in black and white at a clear resolution or a PC game with 4 or 16 (hideous) colours that also looked like someone smeared vaseline directly into your eyeballs.
Then the mid 90s happened and PCs fixed that problem and then there was pretty much no reason to ever want, need or use an Apple product from then on. That people still do is a massive counterpoint to the argument I've been hearing from people saying they're immune to advertising.

[Anonymous No.4455353]

>>4455351
well one reason, keeping a windows machine going is a full time job

[Anonymous No.4455481]

>>4451749
when i was a kid we had an IBM ps/1 with DOS Shell, my brother and i were command prompt wizards

we used to play alot of ZZT and Jill of the Jungle, and of course fiddling with the paint program. anyone who played ZZT knows how fun ZZT-OOP could be. another game i remember was The First Samurai, but it ran pretty badly on the old girl.

[Anonymous No.4455663]

In our networking class in high school the first half was lecture and the second half was doing web-based assessments at our own pace. During the self paced part the teacher would go in his office and close the door and let us work unsupervised.

We all used to download emulators like nesticle and snes9x and play video games during the second half. I sat in the way back and can see which kids were doing this.

One day I registered a fake AIM name with the professors name and sent a message to my friend who was playing games. Something along the lines of you are in big trouble, come see me in my office. I lost my fucking shit watching him go up to the teachers office turning himself in and the teacher like what the fuck are you doing here. I guess you had to be there, but trust me it was fucking hilarious.

[Anonymous No.4455707]

>>4454746
Winchester is a type of HDD when the discs are alway enclosed in the drive. Nowadays every HDD still in use is a winchester type. At the time there were also removable disk drives, hence the term.
>>4454883
And it's pretty much useless unless you're moving/shipping the computer/drive.

[Anonymous No.4455764]

>>4455707
Yeah, sometimes the first result on google isn't the best one sport. You got it nearly 100% wrong on winchester drives.

[Anonymous No.4456069]

>>4454883
Fuck's sake.
In 1996 I was packing my computer in my mum's car after having a weekend at his house playing C&C and Duke Nukem 3D and I hear his dad talking to my mum about having to 'park the hard drive'.
I'm there thinking 'lol that old man don;t know shit about computers' and assumed it was some bullshit a salesman fed him.

All these years later I learn it was an actual thing. This is incredible. I should feel bad but I feel so alive.

[Anonymous No.4456362]

The admin when I was in high school set the bios password on the pcs as "hammer" it was also the same password for the administrator account.

A kid in CAD class got on a Windows 98 computer (wasn't on a network) and typed in someones username and a random password. He was shocked because he thought he "hacked" him.

I would boot up Linux live cds to bypass most of the security on the network as most of the only used on the Windows part of the school network. The Mac part of the network didn't have anything so you can go to any website you want and do whatever you wanted.

Another thing when I was growing up was people that talked about computers like they knew anything about them. Had one kid in middle school that got made because when he tried to close a "window" a pop up would come up. Had to tell him that those were ads on the website and not a "real window that can be closed".

Sister would believe those online password hackers/recovery websites.
>input your email username and password
>input the email you need to recover/hack
watched my sister do this once, noticed that they were hosted on geocities/anglefire/etc

Would install a keylogger on my moms computer because my sister would do stupid shit.
>Try to sign up for credit cards under family members
>get scammy ass loans and use other peoples address and phone
Busted my sister for this shit, she would cry out and say that the images are fake. My father would get mad at me for "pinning shit" that my sister didn't do. But that changed when stuff such as bills, statements, etc started to come in the mail.

[Anonymous No.4456376]

>>4456362
Anyone on my computer. Hated it because they did stupid ass shit and would not get off.
I only let my mom get on my computer so she can play games on pogo. She would get off to go do something without logging off.
Brother's GF and her friend would get on my computer. Go to those websites for free gift cards and download a bunch of shit. Told them to get off because I needed on. They said no because they are signing up for free gas cards and what not. Told them to get the fuck off. No. Notice shit was being downloaded and installed. Hit the power button and they got mad. Told them I don't need them fucking up my computer.

Sister would bitch because I had more then one computer and complained that our mom bought them all for me and that it was a waste of money. But our mom never bought one of them as I got them for cheap or free because most of them were retro. I miss the time when I was more into computers and retro machines at that time. But hell, that was back in middle school and high school.

[Anonymous No.4456401]

>>4456376
Brothers GF got dial up when we didn't have internet for about a year. Called home from school, no one picked up, just noise. Went home after school, and pulled my computer out to find a phone cable plugged in. At the time I didn't had a password on my computer so I put one on. Bro's GF wanted to get on my computer but she cant because she needed the password. She asked me, told her no. She got mad then jumped her ass because she got internet but won't let no one use it. Told her if she gives me the password for the internet that I would give her the password for my computer. We fought about it. Told her that because of her my computer had viruses. She thinks that because she pays for the internet that she should have access not matter what to my computer. Told her it was my computer and no. She bitches about her right because she pays for the internet again. Told her its my fuckin computer and without it she wouldn't be able to get online. She changed her mind. I was able to get online and update my antivirus to get rid of the shit. A few days later she had it disconnected.

Sister would try to guess all my passwords to get on my computers which at login on some windows pc would make the pc freeze. If she did have a chance to get on one of my computers she would snoop and look in the My Documents folder, Pictures folder, etc on my Windows PC for stuff to use against me and to tell our parents. She would search for folders called "porn, anime porn, and animal porn" then get mad when nothing came up. On my SGI, Macs, and Linux Machines she was fuckin clueless on how to search or find the "Pictures and My Documents" folder and said I was hiding them. Hell even on clean installed machines if she had the chance, she would snoop. Only time my sister was able to get on my machines was when I left my room to go to the bathroom or she would try to guess my passwords when I was gone or kick my mom off when she was on my Windows PC.

[Anonymous No.4456412]

>>4455353
And there are plenty of people that just want a laptop which won't be made obsolete either by bad build quality or Microsoft and their horrid product maintenance. I know they are overpriced and lacking in features, but I can't deny that I know multiple people with 5-7 year old macbooks still operating normally, and they're not tech people either so you can't just pass it off as them knowing what they're doing.

Also I think they do put some slick monitors on stuff, 5K imac makes the dell 5K monitor look silly. Granted you don't need 5K for anything, but still.

[Anonymous No.4456417]

>>4456401
Sister sounds like a right cunt

[Anonymous No.4456420]

>>4456401
Had a stick of EDO RAM as a keychain, Sister told my mom that I kept anime porn on the "flash drive" on my keychain.

When we got our first computer my brother would look up shit ton of porn. He would also used those pay per minute porn programs that charged you on your phone bill.

Use to make a lot of pixel art years ago. Sister would put me down and say I didn't make it and what not. She would also go to google images and do a search for the file names of the pixel art just to prove I didn't make any of it. Which didn't bring anything up.

My sister is a cunt. Can't have anything nice. Bitches about my hobby and says I just use computers to get porn. Tries to steal my shit of easy pawn off money.

Bought my mom her own PC so she can stay off of mine. Sister bitches because I have more then one computer. Told her the other one isn't mine and that it's moms. She bitches more because that I should just let my mom use mine instead of buying one just for her. My mom was just a loop hole for my sister to have access to my machine.

I know not all of these stories are retro/old school, just a range from when my family had our first computer to when I had my own computer and so on.

Father would bitch at my at 11pm at night because I would get on the internet (dial up). He would bitch all the time when anyone got on the internet because he says that someone is going to call.

My father hated computers, say they cause nothing but trouble and what not. Always bitched about them. Till about 4 years ago he started to play solitaire on one.

[Anonymous No.4456430]

>>4456412
Alot of people that have laptops (no matter what brand) don't need them. They want them because Its a trend. I use to buy old Vista laptops, upgrade to 7 and slap $200 on top of what I paid and people bought the shit out of them. Same with tablets, when tablets atarted to come out I use to see shit of of chinese shit ones on facebook that people were selling and people ate them up. Smart watches, google home, chromecast, etc. Most people buy them just because its the trend and most of them don't even use them enough.

[Anonymous No.4456445]

>>4453779
delete this

[Anonymous No.4456485]

>>4455351
amiga fixed that problem in 1985

[Anonymous No.4456532]

>>4456430
>>4456430

I'm the one you're responding to and I agree. Technology consumption among those who don't know anything about it is very common these days. My mom owns a 4K Smart TV that she's almost never turned on, and when she does turn it on, she uses it to watch DVDs over Component. It's almost completely pointless. Yet when I explained this to her before she bought it, she simply said "sure, but since I can afford it, I don't see why I shouldn't have the newest thing" she is also wealthy though, so that affects things too.

>>4456485

Why did MS end up going with IBM anyway? I've heard that having windows and office are what saved some microcomputer standards and killed others, and I've heard that Gates chose to put Office on Mac so that they couldn't be accused of having a software monopoly, and because mac was the worst computer you could buy at the time. However, I don't know what pushed him to go with IBM. My assumption is that it was strictly business reasons.

[Anonymous No.4457517]

>>4456069
Your dad didn't know shit about computers. He was either stupidly running some shitty old ST-506 in a machine many years newer or was just parroting something he'd been told. I'm not sure when the last hard drive with a stepper motor was made but I'm guessing at least 5 years earlier, probably more.

[Anonymous No.4458304]

>>4457517
>parroting something he'd been told
Hate when people do this about tech.

[Anonymous No.4458335]

>>4455707
>And it's pretty much useless unless you're moving/shipping the computer/drive.
To be fair, the computer was trolleyed about from class to class now and then but, yeah, total overreaction by late-80s technophobes (this was the era when some people still thought you could break a computer by pressing the wrong button.

[Anonymous No.4458345]

>>4457517
I don't know. I was the original poster about parking and I remember my dad getting a 20mb Seagate 5.25" HDD in about 1988 (that I eventually got as a hand-me-down).

That had to be parked. Years later (once I'd upgraded to a "massive" 250mb) I took the old 20-er apart and it did indeed have a stepper motor.

I doubt this HDD was cutting edge in 1988 but it wasn't massively old either.

[Anonymous No.4459141]

>>4458345
The ST-225 came out in 1984. It's entirely possible your dad bought a new one in 1988 because it was in production for a long time. So it was old in 1988 and by 1996, the year we're talking about, it was ancient. Anyone who bought a machine capable of running those 1996 games that came with a HDD with a stepper motor was more clueless as someone who thought you need to park one with a voice coil.

[Anonymous No.4460045]

I used to steal RAM from my dad's computer as a kid. I didnt know much about PC building yet so once I disconnected the floppy I didnt remeber where it went and left it like that hoping he didnt notice, my father never fixed it. He's still getting floppy error at boot 15 years or so later and his PC was running on like 120MB ram

Also I needed to install this pokemon trading card game on the PIII and I needed more space I was short of a giga or so so I saw C:\WINDOWS was huge so I deleted the folder to free up space for it.

I have an unealthy obsession with 486s and Im frantically trying to get that kids bedroom feel back but Im accepting its not coming back and I find comfort in hoarding.

[Anonymous No.4460215]

>>4460045
You are the worst person in this thread.

[Anonymous No.4460241]

>>4454524
Basketball is the worst shit ever. I hate it.

[Anonymous No.4460243]

I remember playing Starsiege Tribes in my barn attic on a 56k modem while a girl had a schizophrenic breakdown and thought she was a five year old girl who was sexually active and wanted my dick and my heroin.

Man, High School was crazy.

[Anonymous No.4461820]

What's the oldest computer any of you guys have ever used? What about the oldest one you or your family ever personally owned?

[Anonymous No.4461835]

>>4460045
>I saw C:\WINDOWS was huge so I deleted the folder to free up space for it

[Anonymous No.4461906]

It's was 1998 and in tenth grade high school. We only access to once PC with an optical drive that was located in the school library. I installed Quake to our user account from it and my mate set up a custom QuakeWorld server that we use to switch on during class and lunch times. The school wiped all the systems on school holidays but we always had it ready to go the first day back. Missed those days. So innocent and free of responsibility.

[Anonymous No.4462162]

>>4461820
some 486 PC it was choke full of games from the old owner who sold it for nothing since it was "old" ahah what a tool too bad my father made it disappear when I showed him shadow warrior and duke3d on it. He said the pc shop woudlnt give it back but I know he sold it.

[Anonymous No.4462381]

>>4461820
PDP-8. PDP-8. I used one at school in the 70's and bought one myself about 10 years later because muh nostalgia and I thought I could actually use it for something. Boy was I wrong. My Apple ][ ran circles around it.

[Anonymous No.4462407]

>>4455280
Me neither, anon.

Our school had RM Nimbus PCs too. Mostly 8088 and 8086 with CGA/EGA but we did have one beast of a 286 with VGA which everyone fought over. Much peanutting of ties ensued at the beginning of every IT lesson until we settled down to the serious business of drawing various hairy gentalia on PaintSPA.

[Anonymous No.4462448]

>>4460045
You can't actually delete the Windows folder even if you try.
Not from within Windows itself at least, you would have to boot into something else.

[Anonymous No.4462454]

>>4462448
Yeah that was some obvious storytelling.

[Anonymous No.4462461]

>>4462454
It was bad

[Anonymous No.4462463]

The oldest memory I have of using a computer was playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? with my grandfather.

Good times those were.

[Anonymous No.4464021]

not nearly enough pics in this thread

[Anonymous No.4464623]

Back on 2009 I found an Atari ST computer in the tech lab at school. Teacher showed me all the floppy disks he had for it. Got extra credit for each 20 disks I tested and cataloged. Wasn't much but it helped in my computer class.

[Anonymous No.4464736]

>>4456401
Why the fuck did sisters do this shit with the internet?

This reminded me of when my bro and I were using netzero to get online while we were switching ISPs. My sister gets on my computer one day, goes online, then tells my mom that we were using "an illegal adult internet service provider".

[Anonymous No.4465010]

>>4464623
That's great. You are one little santa's helper. What are you doing these days to help the mankind?

[Anonymous No.4465326]

>>4456401
She just wanted to fap to your anime porn

[Anonymous No.4465520]

>>4451749
When I was a very small child, I used to play Fatty Bear and DOOM on Windows 95. Because my Uncle had left it for my Mother, but she never figured it out, I was the only one ever using it. Subsequently, I used to just turn it off via the power button, because I was barely 4 years old.

When I was 10, I was given my own computer, a Windows XP which I just used to play emulators of console games on, as well as games like Hexen, etc.

I was never really into newer games.

t. 20 year old

[Anonymous No.4466257]

>>4465520
>Fatty Bear

wat.

[Anonymous No.4466261]

>>4453779

>>>/r9k/

[Anonymous No.4466342]

>>4451749
Turned all the computers in the computer science into full screen super nintendo emulators @ full screen and cheered everyone up. Later that day they called me into the office and told me what could have happened if my games were viruses.

[Anonymous No.4468609]

>>4466342
>if my games were viruses

[Anonymous No.4471239]

>>4460045
I keep seeing that gif posted lately. Where the fuck is that from?

[Anonymous No.4471309]

>DO
>net send domain "FUCK"
>LOOP

Just on one school computer was enough to fuck the whole IT room for weeks.

[Anonymous No.4471323]

>>4451749

>Have online stock broker game in early 2000s business class made by country to teach children about stocks. All schools participate, winner get´s a prize.
>Get 1000 monopoly $ to buy a few stocks
>Who got the most at the end of the year wins
>Look at the website that runs the game
>Looks cheaper than a browser game
>Was heavily into browsergame OGAME that day
>Learned some "hacking" on 4chan
>Stock game works with html buttons and input fields
>Get an idea to hack that shit
>Be super 90s script kiddie
>Write "-1" in the "quantity" buy field of a stock
>Receive free $, repeat
>mranderson.jpg
>Decide to play safe for a while and just cheat reasonable amounts
>About a weak later some guys are still better than me, despite me cheating
>fuckit.jpg
>Go for -9999999 "Microsoft Stocks"
>???
>profit
>Literally buy 100% of CANADA
>Change my username to King of Canada
>ffw 14 days
>Game is canceled because a "technical error"
>mfw being the incarnation of the script kiddie

[Anonymous No.4472948]

>>4451749
Around '98-99 my dad a CD burner and when I brought home Playstation games from Blockbuster, he would burn them for me.

It was the shit.

[Anonymous No.4473103]

>>4472948
That sounds incredibly awesome. I wish I'd had access to that kind of technology when I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.4473302]

>>4466257
not him, but it was a simple children's inventory-based puzzler. Damned good animation and lots of voice-acting too.

[Anonymous No.4473496]

>>4461820
A Mac 512k (I think...) that my parents had for like 2 weeks. One day it wouldn't boot and that was that.

[Anonymous No.4473515]

>>4461820
I used to play with a Tandy 1000 at my Dad's office in the 90s; I used a 386 with dual floppy drives to convert abandonware games I got on the Internet to run on the Tandy. The first computer I ever used was a Mac Classic in ~1992-3 though. My mom was a school teacher so they would send them home with the teachers over the summer to work on lesson plans, etc, with. Been a Macfag ever since.

[Anonymous No.4473672]

[Anonymous No.4473709]

>>4471323
That sounds pretty damn legendary
Anyone else have any nostalgia for old edutainment vidya?

[Anonymous No.4473716]

>>4473709
To this day I still like playing Treasure MathStorm! I found a CD-ROM copy at the goodwill a year ago and couldn't resist picking it up since my boxed floppy copy may or may not still be floating around in storage back home.

[Anonymous No.4473868]

>>4471323
i like how those stock games don't actually teach how well the stock market works (especially when they add a competitive element) since they instead enforce you to try to buy and sell individual stocks quickly over a short span of time to make a massive profit.

[Anonymous No.4475031]

>>4473868
Isn't Wall Street Raider considered fairly accurate, relatively speaking?

[Anonymous No.4475340]

>>4451749
I was more of a console gamer than a PC gamer back then. But the most I remember of PC gaming was playing this educational game called "McGee" or something like that. It was a point & click adventure. There was also this other game that was either a 4 bit or 8 bit game, but it had something to do with robots on a platform. Kinda reminded me of Donkey Kong with it's style of game play.

[Anonymous No.4476698]

>>4475340
>educational game called "McGee"

wat.

[Anonymous No.4477073]

>>4471309
Ha, good ol' net send.

[Anonymous No.4477391]

>>4476698
I don't know the exact name, but I was playing it in school.

[Anonymous̩ No.4477412]

>>4453772
one time in elementary school I renamed win.com to w.com because I was bored
I forgot to change autoexec.bat so obviously the computer wouldn't start right, but apparently some lock-out program prevented them from just naming it back (even though it didn't stop me from changing it in the first place)
took the computer lab lady like a whole day if not two to get it going again, and I was banned from using school computers for a while

[Anonymous̩ No.4477414]

>>4453783
>forgetting to "park the Winchester"
real oldfag here

[Anonymous̩ No.4477462]

>>4456532
as far as hardware? Microsoft didn't choose IBM, IBM chose Microsoft
they were mostly a compiler company up to then
they told IBM they had a killer new OS, and after the guy running Digital Research acted like a cunt IBM said "all right let's see it then", and MS proceeded to buy some shitty CP/M knockoff made by a guy in a local computer store and make minor changes
that was MS-DOS 1.0

[Anonymous̩ No.4477469]

>>4462448
one time I was using the command prompt even though I had Windows up because I wanted to feel like a hacker (honestly I still do want to feel like a hacker) and I typed in del *.* because I was done with everything on a floppy, and I kind of spaced out and entered and confirmed it on C:\Windows instead, it didn't delete everything and I was able to recover some of it from the Recycle Bin, but the computer wouldn't start Windows after that
I'm pretty sure that's how we lost the computer that had the underwater theme on it
sad times

[Anonymous̩ No.4477471]

>>4461820
Apple II, in kindergarten, and Apple II, in high school, my science teacher gave me one when I graduated
still kind of miffed my mom sold it, not long before I turned 18 too

[Anonymous̩ No.4477486]

>>4473709
in 2nd grade there was this math game on the computers, sort of combination platformer/space shooter/other stuff, it was really hard but it looked good and doing well was really satisfying
my first thought for the name is Math Blaster but I don't think that's it

[Anonymous̩ No.4477487]

>>4477486
OK it was Math Blaster
I need to play this again some day

[Anonymous No.4477997]

>>4460045
Once in DOS I wondered what the .. directory was for. I couldn't understand what it was so I deleted it. Which turned out to be pointing to the root of C: at the time.

[Anonymous No.4478396]

>>4477469
>recovered files deleted from the command prompt from the recycle bin
>wanted to feel like a hacker
>not satisfied with being a wizard

[Anonymous No.4478409]

>>4453779
goddamn. i was 18 in 99
you dont know what retro games are

[Anonymous No.4478838]

only kinda retro, but

>install Quake 2 on a usb drive
>take to school to play in the library with friends (computer lab wasn't really open, but they had a row of like 15 computers for anyone to use in the library)
>sandy hook happens
>we keep playing it in full view because we're stupid assholes
>old fatass teacher guy scolds us for playing it right after sandy hook
>'ok, sorry', we shut it down for the day
>AV guy in charge of library suggests we turn the tables around so it's not visible
>continue playing quake 2 during every lunch period
>principal walks in to talk to AV guy about something
>sees us playing on his way out
>asks who's winning before carrying on with whatever he was doing
>never actually got in trouble for playing a pretty gory game in school

senior year was fun

[Anonymous No.4478901]

>>4478838
What is with people and not doing a certain thing after some tragedy? It's so pathetic. It's like bitching about playing jenga after 9/11.

[Anonymous No.4478929]

>>4478901
Boomers get triggered pretty easily.

[Anonymous No.4478942]

>>4453779
DELET

[Anonymous No.4478949]

I've got some stories
>Around 2001 or 2002
>School computers are still mostly windows 98
>I'm in 5th grade
>Substitute teacher today
>It's time for me and my tech-savvy bud to take notes or something legit
>Exit to DOS and fire up edit for shits, we only need plaintext anyway
>Substitute teacher sees us
>Calls the vice principle because we were "hacking" during class
It's good to remember that illiterates see any kind of command prompt as "illegal hacking."

[Anonymous No.4478959]

>be me
>be in 7th grade
>do some math tasks on our school's new fancy Apple II Plus systems
>finish earlier
>decide to do some basic
>can't think of anything particularly fun, so 10 PRINT "FUCK YOU" 20 GOTO 10 it is
>teacher walks behind me
>i'm banned from the computer class until the end of the year

[Anonymous No.4478963]

>>4478959
You could've just written "foobar" and it would've been fine.

[Anonymous No.4479936]

I Played Quake 2 on my first computer: a Pentium 75. Every few seconds the game would either jitter, stuck, freeze, jerk, stutter or jiggle. I still managed to finished it.

When I play Q2 today I always turn of the opengl shit to play it like in the old days.

[Anonymous No.4479980]

>>4454601
Snow nigger detected, take off hoser eh?

[Anonymous No.4480010]

>>4451749
Me uses first computer in elementry school back in 83.
Junior high also has the same computers.
So does high school.
Damn public schools in the 80's and their Apple ][c's.

[Anonymous No.4480014]

>>4451749
me goes to summer school between 6th and 7th grades, 1985.
I computer lab with Apple ][c's, someone is playing a game, Conan.
Ask him and he makes me a copy, my first warez.

[Anonymous No.4481048]

>>4480014
>me play it to many and no do enlish home work

[Anonymous No.4481060]

>>4479936
Missed out on q2 multiplayer? Shit was amazing

[Anonymous No.4481063]

>elementary school
>bring games into school on floppy disks
>let other kids play pathways into darkness
>all goes well until the chaperones notice us shooting headlesses
>fun while it lasted

[Anonymous No.4481069]

>elementary school
>bring games into school on floppy disks
>let other kids play pathways into darkness during recess
>all goes well until the chaperones notice us shooting headlesses
>fun while it lasted

[Anonymous No.4481550]

The first full version of Duke 3d I ever played was a floppy disk version a friend of mine owned. Can you believe installing this crap with about 20 disks with tiny black and white duke3d stickers on it.

[Anonymous No.4481557]

>>4462407
Yeah we had those at our school too. Later, we also had the 486 ones and I have fond memories of everyone in the computer club running sonic 2 on an emulator I brought in on floppy disk (once it was running you could take the disk out).

[Anonymous No.4481847]

>>4454449
in russia "winchester" is a meme word for HDD
park = meme for proper shutdown

parking means then magnetic hdd heads must be positioned correctly before power turns off

[Anonymous No.4482151]

Not that old school but when I was 11 and we had a really crappy Windows ME computer I decided to remove some programs on that I didn't think I needed in an attempt to speed the PC up or make it less crap, but ended up uninstalling all graphics drivers, thinking they were partly to blame for the PC being so slow and bad without realizing what they actually did, which made the PC not even recognize the graphics card anymore.

[Anonymous No.4482217]

in highschool computer class we installed this multiplayer-metroid fangame on the computers and played that for the whole period every day

[Anonymous No.4484001]

>>4482217
What game? Or do you mean it was a ROM hack?

[Anonymous No.4484019]

>>4479980
T. Burg nig

[Anonymous No.4484020]

>>4480010
>>4480014
Me tarzan, you jane

[Anonymous No.4485489]

>>4478901
this

[Anonymous No.4485559]

My story.

Live in remote northern canada. Young uncle finishes degree of some sort and gets a government job, go to visit his office, holyshit a computer (had only heard of them at this point or saw in movies) "help yourself anon". Start to check it out, realize right then I will be addicted to a form of this box my whole life.
Few years pass, computer has DOS and some games on it, visit his office as much as i can, even though its a 1.5 hour walk one way. Pajeet working with uncle now. Paki/indian as fuck, and everyone racist against him, but to me he's my bro. Pajeet also rich, buys more games. Gives me a sega master system with like 30 games randomly one day. I'm blown the fuck away.

Few years pass, and we move. I work mowing lawns and shit, parents are divorced but agree to pay for half of a computer for my birthday, once i convince them it will help with school (lol).
Nobody I know has internet at this point. Spend about 2 years, win 95 i think, no net just making docs, using 3.5 floppy disks, playing old shitty games and loving it.
Year or so passes, at this point i'm a weird tech nerd in school and almost no friends. Some other nerd is getting beaten so i help him out. Guy gives me a win 98 SE install and becomes my buddy. Still not sure where he got it, i think his dad did some tech work or something.

Wew boys, win 98 SE. That was my shit right there. Anyone who's used it knows the BSOD and other fucked up issues. I modded mine to say TOASTY from MK3 when i rebooted. Fuck yeah, loved that comp set up, CRT monitor heavier than your mom, old style keyboard you only wish you could buy nowadays, the white/turning yellow with the giant clacking keys.

Now it gets serious. I had saved a lot of money from stealing cigs and weed from my mom and aunt and random degerates they hung out with and sold that stuff to badass kids i went to school with.

[Anonymous No.4485568]

>>4485559
Few rich kids brag about going from 28.8 to 56k (yeah this was a bit late, but rural canada still)
But hang on to your fuckin hat lads, soon-ish (can't remember exactly) after all of that I went and got cable internetz. I was the only person I knew (other than businesses and shit) that had it.
People talked about downloading a song on napster, at a rate of like 1 per night (oldfags might remember this) but I'm sitting on 2 packs of smokes, little weed, and a computer in my room, totally unsupervised with cable internet. These were the glory days young fellers.

By age 16 or so, I'd seen it all. pirating, ogrish site,gore, etc. I had random online friends from around the world, and a couple nerd friends from my school, even though we weren't cool in school, we felt like we were part of a secret club because of the online world we lived in.
I'd talk to the most random people in chat rooms, long before the days of webcams and shit, so you could pretty much pretend to be anyone.
I'd laugh to myself at the locker room guys who had their grampy's porno mag, with some hardly even softcore pics. Meanwhile I'd go home and watch the newest porn movie made by the most jewish directors in malibu with the biggest blue blocker sun glasses.
I saw the rise and fall of napster, winmx,DC++,limewire,edonkey, and fuck knows what else.
Yeah I wasted my life, but I enjoyed every minute of it.

Thanks for reading my story anons.

[Anonymous No.4485580]

>>4485568
Do you live in Brampton now

[Anonymous No.4485625]

>>4485580
No. That's random?

[Anonymous No.4485743]

>>4478949
>It's good to remember that illiterates see any kind of command prompt as "illegal hacking."
I feel you. This was my post:

>>4453772

[Anonymous No.4485753]

In university I made a mockup of a login dialog that shelled to Internet Explorer. I put it on some of the PCs labeled as "Internet Explorer".

So when people tried to browse the web they were encountered with a username and password dialog - the details entered would be written to a text file before taking the user to IE.

I read the files a few days later and just logged into people's accounts and had a nose around. Didn't do anything bad really, just liked pretending to be a hacker.

I also changed the NT screen at the login to pic related (to cause embarrassment to a tutor we all disliked).

Frankly I'm amazed that nothing came of it.

[Anonymous No.4485754]

>>4485753
>pic related

[Anonymous No.4485761]

>>4485753
fellow nerd friend of mine changed all the mac computers in my school to have meatspin as either a loading screen or some kind of desktop item (i'm mac illiterate sorry)
never got caught but the outrage was pure gold

[Anonymous No.4485985]

>>4485568
>DC++
Right in the feels, anon. Fucking minimum share reqs for private hubs. shit was nuts.

[Anonymous No.4485991]

>>4485754
Mmm, WindowsNT. I became such a NT/2000 purist when one of my online tech buddies introduced me to it. Rode that shit hard even though NT4 would always inevitably crash many months down the line. It was always more stable than the consumer versions until that point.

[Anonymous No.4485995]

>>4485991
Yeah I loved 2000. There was something reassuringly austere about it. Was 2000 the first Windows where the NT kernel etc was incorporated into the consumer versions, or was it Vista?

[Anonymous No.4486031]

>>4485985
haha ahh yeah classic nostalgia there, the old "share or fuckoff" hubs. some with 50gb of films required or something similar.

[Anonymous No.4487120]

>>4451749
A brief synopsis on my experience with computers (sorry if its long):
>Age 10, see first computer in 1978 while touring University of Victoria comp lab. Watch room sized monster run punchcards & print pictures of Snoopy on dot matrix printer that could print large format pages in about 1 sec
>Summer 1982, helped neighbour assemble a Timex Sinclair ZX81
>Friend of family has Atari 2600 game machine. Play all the classics. Custers Revenge fiasco convinces parents vid games are bad & forbids them in house
>Xmas '82, best friend gets an Apple ][+ system & 110 baud accoustical modem for rotary phone
>First time ever online, a computer IRC operated by Royal Bank of Canada where Apple pirates around the PNW used to store their "warez". Lol.. so funny to hear those old terms now. I still remember text slowly scrolling across the screen. He upgraded to 300 baud year later & it felt like we were screaming along.
>1983, Wargames comes out & suddenly the underground is flooded with wannabe's. Ugh However it did expand the BBS scene.
>1984, Dad of school friend buys 1st Mac
>Anarchy files, Phrack, LoD Tech files, Cult of the Dead Cow... etc. Good times!
>High school has a handful of Apple 2's & 2e's in the computer lab. Used to sneak in during breaks & lunch to play games, the computers had restricted access, only math "leet" allowed
>1985, see first Apple Lisa at Computerland store
>1987, live in Calgary for winter Olympics, roomy has Radio Shack CoCo2 comp & modem. Went on my 1st chatline & FidoNet BBS networks. Smilies & ANSI graphics. BBS scene lively: Crapples, Commies, Amiga's, Atari & few PC's
>Late '88, given login for IRC. I remember Morris Internet worm that November. It was big news!
>1989, roomy now has IBM PC XT 20 MB HD. Spends $1200 on SVGA monitor. 640x480 gifs are the norm. Most BBS are 300/1200 baud, a few at 2400
>1990 he spends $3600 for 386DX33MHz 640K RAM system. Has DOS3.x & Windows 3 piece of shit

Those early days were fun. So many memories.

[Anonymous No.4487148]

>>4471323
Kinda off-topic but this reminded me of when I bought a futon online in the early 00s. The website had a 10% off deal and looked pretty shitty so I loaded my cart with 10 futons, changed the quantity back to one and only had to pay shipping costs as the discount didnt update. I waited to be contacted about the error but to my surprise a week later my futon was delivered. I had a play around and actually got the price to read as a negative value but I didn't want to chance it anymore.

[Anonymous No.4487154]

Honestly the thing I really miss now that I have a thousand game steam library and practically every retro game I could ever want via the internet is how special it was to get a new game, either by saving all of my money for months or when Christmas or birthdays rolled around. Wizardry and Ultima on C64 blew my damn mind as a kid. Phantasy Star on SMS was one of my greatest gaming experiences. When I got a new game I knew it was going to be forever until I got another one so I was way more into it than I am now. I really miss that feeling as an adult.

[Anonymous No.4488920]

Was there porn on the internet in the 80s?

[Anonymous No.4491191]

>>4486031
I fucking hated having to upload to be able to download.

Anyone else use FTPs a lot back in the day? That was pretty common on those.

[Anonymous No.4491454]

I'll post some of my stuff, hopefully someone enjoys reading it.

The first time I ever saw the internet was probably in about 1991-1993 at the latest. A childhood friend had AOL. He showed me some web pages, but the internet was completely in it's infancy, nothing of value was seen that day, and I believe they either charged by the minute or had a time limit on usage. I thought it was kind of neat but overall worthless. We looked at it for about 10 minutes then went outside and played. I didn't see the internet til about 1994-1995 after that.

I remember my sister (who is 11 yrs older than me) and her husband had a computer with windows 3.1. She had a bunch of discs, things like 3d models of human anatomy (some kind of encyclopedia shit), discs with animal animations, again encyclopedia type stuff. I watched those so many times and was blown away with the level of technology, it was the future. I played minesweeper (my memory is foggy on this) and included windows games. She didn't have internet, so her computer was basically a word processor with cd media stuff.

I got a REALLY shitty laptop with a black and white screen for christmas in about 1994 or so, but it was all but worthless. The only redeeming quality it had was it had a roller coaster game where you made roller coaster tracks and could ride on them in first person. The laptop was so slow that it lagged like hell and you rode them in about 10 fps, but it was still pretty mind blowing. We sold that laptop and got a Compaq computer with I think a 1.5gb hard drive. The hard drive was massive and I figured we could never fill it. Fast forward and it's a game of deleting unnecessary files and being super OCD about every folder and file to keep it from being filled.

About this time we got dialup. I remember Napster back in the day. You could download a song overnight, sometimes taking 5 hours or more for a super low bitrate (like 64 or less) song. Napster was awesome as.. continued

[Anonymous No.4491471]

>>4491454

Napster was awesome as you could see other user's music and find a lot of cool music that way. Back then, if you were lucky enough to live in an area with cable, MTV was about the only way to find music, or just friends recommendations. I distinctly remember finding some dude with Johnny Rebel music. I downloaded it and it was stupidly racist, though it was funny to listen to with friends. I'm not racist in the least, but at this point I was a teenager and "edgy" was cool. I remember looking for more Johnny Rebel music and finding some dude called The_Aryan or something like that. I was clueless and asked him what an aryan was, he never responded back to the PM, and I remember finding out what it was later. I just find it funny as I was so innocent back then and was so clueless.

Anyway, edgelord stuff aside, I remember things like the mislabeled songs like "the legend of zelda by system of a down" and such. I was fucking bummed when napster shut down and I've never bought or listened to metallica since.

I played Team fortress back then (before it was called classic) and just absolutely loved it. I tried to snipe, but with the slow dialup, I had to lead a person by like 3-5 seconds to hit them. I ended up playing engineer most of the time as your sentry guns were controlled server side and weren't affected by lag. I spent hundreds of hours playing this, it was a huge part of my childhood/teenage years. I played some CS, but never as much as the results of dying from lag (dead til next match) were much worse than instant respawn.

I remember playing Full Metal then, was a good game.

Sometime in the 90s our school had apple computers. I remember a game on there where you shot balls and they divided into more parts. You could go in and edit the graphics and we made our own "games" this way. Really fun to change the animations and sprites in game.

Well, I'll wrap this up as I'm running close to 2000 words. Hope someone enjoys the story.

[Anonymous No.4491592]

>>4453260
how old are you?

[Anonymous No.4493002]

>>4488920
No internet, but there was pr0n. In 1981 Sierra On-Line had a game called 'Softporn Adventure' that feature nudity. A massive hit.

I recall seeing .gif pics (this was before jpegs were common) in 1988 of nude women. Resolution was pretty low and at 1200 baud could take a minute or so to download.

And a girl I dated in Dec 1988 had an Amiga 1000 and she showed me a near photo quality picture of a woman getting fucked. It was interactive too. If you moved the mouse to the right the guy plunged into her and the disk drive made a noise. Move the mouse left & the guy withdrew with a corresponding disk drive write noise. Rapidly move the mouse left & right and the picture followed suit with the actions/sounds mentioned.

[Anonymous No.4493017]

>>4487120
Remember those old modem settings you had to manually enter for the different boardz? Bits, Stop Bit, Parity:

>7 Even 1
>8 None 1

Most of the Apple AE boards were 7E1.

Or how about all the different download formats? X-Modem, X-Modem CRC, Y-Modem, Z-Modem, Kermit, Telink, etc. There was a bunch more but I can't remember them.

[Anonymous No.4493030]

>>4478409
>almost 40 and still on 4chan

LOOK AT HIM
LOOK AT HIM AND LAUGH

[Anonymous No.4493668]

Finally getting my own place after being set back years by medical problems and other personal matters. One thing I'd like to do if I have the money is retro-computing as a hobby, meaning hardware as well as games and other software.

I'm excited.

[Anonymous No.4494212]

>>4461820
The oldest I have ever used was an Apple /// with a 5 MB ProFile HD in my collection I had up until 2002. I later found out it was one of the first production run that was recalled. Periodically I had to pull cards and chips and polish up the connectors to ensure good conductivity. As a (mistaken) cost saving measure Apple didn't gold plate the connectors so they oxidized easily. A common fix was to lift the computer about 3 inches and then drop it to reseat things.

>>4462381
Neat. Never seen one in person, I imagine that's a collectors item.

In 1993 I almost bought an Altair 8800 with a bunch of S-100 add-ons and accessories. Looking at the prices they fetch now, he was asking way too much.

In 1991 I bought a Apple floppy drive off an old man. While we were talking he showed me some junk he had that he needed help identifying. Goddamn if he didn't have an original Apple 1 mother board! At first I didn't recognize it & a couple of weeks later I saw a pic of it in a book. I contacted him again about some other parts he had & told him what that mystery board was & expressed interest in buying it. He wasn't interested in selling. I went back in 1993 & 94 attempting to buy it from him but he was still not interested. A visit in 2006 found he had passed away... dunno where that board went. Damn... sooo close.

[Anonymous No.4494217]

>>4493030
>just turned 51
HAHAHAhaha...oh wait...

[Anonymous No.4495340]

>>4493030
do you think people just stop using the internet at some point?

[Anonymous No.4495397]

>>4493002
>Softporn Adventure
I had a text version of this game. Your goal was to fuck 3 women. I managed to get as far as 1. I also discovered the odds were massively in your favour on the fruit machine so I just held Y ("Play again? Y/N") to get vast sums of money.

[Anonymous No.4496702]

>>4485995
I think XP was the one

[Anonymous No.4497191]

>>4493002
>'Softporn Adventure' that feature nudity

It was a text game... How could it have had nudity?

[Anonymous No.4497245]

>>4493002
>there was no internet in the 80's because I wasn't born yet
Top kek kid. There was a lot going on on the internet in the mid 80's and by the late 80's there were actual ISPs as you know them. Even before ISPs many companies had toll free dial up access for their employees which anyone could use because because many default accounts had no password, and root access. Before it was switched to TCP/IP on Jan 1 83 it existed using other PSNs.

[Anonymous No.4497671]

>>4453779
Too real bro

[Anonymous No.4498156]

>>4485559
Indians are subhuman and don't belong in Canada. In the near future, they must all be exterminated.

[Anonymous No.4499620]

>>4497245
this guy knows what's up

[Anonymous No.4501114]

>>4453779
>tfw this is everyone on this site regardless of year, grade or platform they started doing this on
Fuck you anon for making me remember how my life got to this point

[Anonymous No.4501349]

>>4497245
You're right, I stand corrected, I remember GEnie and Compuserve. I recall taking the Compuserve diskettes found in computer magazines from time-to-time that gave you free trial access to their network. A source of cheap floppies.

>>4497191
Dammit, right again. I'm confusing it with a strip poker game that had graphics in early '84 for the Apple.

>>4495397
I remember another game, it had graphics where the user had to search rooms and collect pills to prevent STD's. There was a single sex scene. It wasn't very memorable & lost its initial thrill after the 1st play.

[Anonymous No.4501353]

>>4501349
>search rooms and collect pills to prevent STD's

This has to be one of the most insane concepts for a video game ever.

[Anonymous No.4501379]

>>4501114

Stop the feels man. Because of this I was a virgin until I was 18. But the amount of cybersex and received boob pics on IRC was through the roof. I even got a milf phonesex partner I met on a fucking conspiracy forum of all places. Early internet was magical.

[Anonymous No.4501771]

>>4497191
>being to young to remember ascii porn centerfolds you'd print on 3 sheets of fan fold paper
It's like you're not even retirement age or something. Anyway pic related of a pussy should give you some idea of how it was.

[Anonymous No.4503652]

>>4501114
nigga NO ONE I've ever known has EVER done that

[Anonymous No.4503654]

>>4501379
>I was a virgin until I was 18

oh boo fucking hoo, you fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.4503657]

>>4503654
>oh boo fucking hoo
>...because I'm still a virgin at 36 years old
Boo hoo indeed.

[Anonymous No.4505523]

>>4503652
>nigga
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.4505530]

>>4501771
you haven't lived until you've printed porn with a plotter. yep, the ones with pens.

[Anonymous No.4506423]

>>4505523

>>>/tumblr/

[Anonymous No.4506426]

>>4506423
>responding at all

Found the 14'er.

[Anonymous No.4507982]

>>4505530
I can't even imagine how that'd work

[Anonymous No.4507991]

>>4451749

>be me at age 12
>learn how to use dos
>fly though my computer with dos launch games, programs etc....
>amazing OS once you learn it extremely resource light
>dos starts up quickly, reboots in under 20 seconds
>windows 3.1 is silly pointless novelty that you launch from dos
>windows 95 launches
>computer boots straight into windows 95 takes over 1 mins to reboot
>wtf is this shit how to I change setting to boot into dos
>can't boot into dos, win95 erased dos and can only run dos emulation from inside win95
>all my dos games run at a snail's pace inside fake dos
>why would someone ruin all of computing for this horrible pointless graphic interface
>win 95 games are clunky shitty messes

Bill Gates destroyed personal computing so that idiots could use computers without having to think.

[Anonymous No.4508069]

>>4451749
what a nerd!