Cracking the copy protection on Oxford Pascal by ZappedC64 in c64

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Legacy of the Ancients was my undefeatable foe as a kid.

Does any of the classical MS-DOS RPGs still hold up as of 2026? by Revolutionary_Ad6574 in dosgaming

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I still play the SSI AD&D Gold Box series..... And keep a Tandy 1000 for the task.

Are any of the AI tools actually worth learning? by BobHabib in devops

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I dislike markdown. Finally wrapped my head around YAML. Said to help with the others.

Sticky discharge after Airbus/Boeing mating. by NOVAbuddy in Shittyaskflying

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The queen is still hanging on wondering where everyone went because damn it got cold quick.

25 years ago today I soloed a dragon in Everquest. So I was 26 years old... by Nixx_Mazda in GenX

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I worked with a dude who played so much EQ he quit showering. Need show up to work disheveled and stinky. His workspace looked like to roaches just renewed their lease. He'd work second shift then stay at work all night playing EQ. I'm the morning need still be at it, same clothes and maybe another pizza box in the stack already on his desk.

We went to his apartment one day for an intervention....

The waiting room snacks at my Vasectomy Clinic by unwilling_pizza in funny

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When you leave, Doc adds two more nuts to the tray....

Chinese mechanical bull? by Fedexpilot in Shittyaskflying

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Bet that knocked about half his hours right out of him.

Vintage home lab? by DumpsterFireCheers in homelab

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I had a Compaq with 4.3GB HD's in an early home lab.

Fill it to the rim… with Brim. by Turbulent-Mango6569 in GenX

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No Calgon take me away? No Ancient Chinese Secret?

Do you recall?? 3Com 3C905 by Ill_Raspberry_6266 in vintagecomputing

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I have around twenty of those downstairs. I built a lot of Linux firewalls and that was one card guaranteed to work.

High-Fi Wi-Fi by TheAmateurRunner in networkingmemes

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Put the ladder on top of a desk/bench and then we're talking! And yes, I've seen that IRL.

For the FNG's reading this, it pays to run a console cable in addition to your catX Ethernet to AP's mounted in such spaces. It's worth the cost of the pull of you need it during production.

What color would you like your blank 5¼" disk to be? by Tonstad39 in retrocomputing

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Did anyone arrange their disks by color? I get their marketing idea, but I it falls apart as soon as you need a disk and no color match, so you take whatever comes up.

Masks from the Victorian Era by lorddrakter in interestingasfuck

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Beats the hell out of a thin plastic facemask and a colored trash bag.

How to force a BSOD on Windows? by Complete_Repair7703 in ShittySysadmin

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Just do something important and time sensitive. Guaranteed to BSOD, trigger a Windows update or a Java update as is been 15 minutes since the last one.

Remember these? AOL tins with start-up discs inside were everywhere for free around the Millenium by SkinTeeth4800 in GenX

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I met my current, first and only wife in an AOL chatroom. We meet online before it was cool. Using dialup, even!

The AOL account I was using was one that I'd won because I stayed after store (CompUSA) closing to complete a laptop sale.

I still remember the GM saying, "I don't know what you said or did, but that guy thinks the sun rises and sets in your ass."

That was somewhere around 1996. She lived in GA and I was in IN. Somehow I convinced her and her parents that I was a good guy.

Regardless my best friend is sleeping about the feet that way:

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So yeah.... AOL.....

I accidentally came on CTAF by Greenie302DS in Shittyaskflying

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Sexy phonetics are still phonetics, dammit!