• slappypantsgo@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Is the implication that this was for someone who was a kid growing up then? Or just that this was a prominent memory of an older teen? Something else?

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      9 days ago

      The CD Key written on the CD was a very famous infinite license key that pretty much everyone who had a pirated copy of windows was using. You also used to need to reformat more often for a clean wipe of your computer, so many people got used to entering this specific key.

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        9 days ago

        I appreciate your answer very much, I was just trying to understand the age part of the meme.