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At 8 years old I was able to expertly dismantle many radios. Was still a few years away from reassembly.
by suprjami 8mo ago
At 8 years old I was able to expertly dismantle many radios.
Was still a few years away from reassembly.
- nananana9 8mo agoAt 8 years I recycled filesystem directories. I didn't know you can create new folders, so when I needed one I grabbed a random one from C:\Windows, moved it to my desktop and deleted its contents.
- jdthedisciple 8mo agoMakes total sense, it used to be called "Recycle Bin" after all!
- whamlastxmas 8mo agoI wonder if Microsoft did focus group testing and found understandably computer illiterate people were concerned about "trashing" files meant they were somehow permanently using up HDD space
- geoffbp 8mo agoWorked ok til it was a system dir and the system wouldn’t boot anymore? :)
- jdefr89 8mo agoNo better way to learn System32 folder was essential is Windows than by destroying your family computer by removing it.
- energy123 8mo agoI deleted the files from there to free up disk space
- fragmede 8mo agoI don't need autoexec.bat or config.sys! it's got some garbage in there that I don't understand, so it must not be important.
- desertrider12 8mo agoThat’s funny. When I was little I found “format” in my mp3 player’s settings. Thought it would customize the UI or something, but instead I ended up with no music for the rest of the road trip.
- nephihaha 8mo agoI was doing that at three or four and was reminded of it constantly for the next ten years or more. (I actually raised the subject on my mother's death bed.)
- fuzzfactor 8mo agoWhen I was a boy all we had were high-voltage vacuum tube electronics, it was fun.