• TheSambassador@lemmy.world
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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.

    • slappypantsgo@lemm.ee
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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.