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I fondly recall when my friend became the first kid in our neighborhood to get cable internet instead of dialup. I biked over to his house with a backpack full
by Tr3nton 4y ago
I fondly recall when my friend became the first kid in our neighborhood to get cable internet instead of dialup. I biked over to his house with a backpack full of 3.5" floppies and spent hours filling them up with games.
It's especially amusing that a single photo taken on my phone exceeds the capacity of a standard 1.44MB 3.5" disk; same for the total download size of a fairly barebones website. Nostalgia!
- iggldiggl 4y ago> It's especially amusing that a single photo taken on my phone exceeds the capacity of a standard 1.44MB 3.5" disk … and the full decompressed version of that image might not have fit into your computer's memory at that time, either.
- outworlder 4y agoFor quite a while, floppy disks exceeded the system memory by at least one order of magnitude.
- timbit42 4y agoIt will fit if you use a Sony Mavica with the floppy drive built in.