• atomicorange@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Y’all remember the computer room? Like that guest bedroom or whatever that wasn’t really used for anything other than housing The Computer?

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      Plus all the accoutrements that invariably went along with The Computer.

      A printer and a scanner

      A filing cabinet for all the things you liked to print and scan

      A rack full of CD-ROM disks like Encarta 95 and Ecco The Dolphin and CorelDRAW 4

      A beige container with clear plastic lid for storing floppy disks, that for some reason had a lock on it as if floppy disks were the Crown Jewels

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        2 months ago

        I still have all this stuff and the room. probably because I am not good at cleaning. also the office chair straight out of 90s. Maybe if enough time passes of not throwing things out I will be able to open a museum and make some extra

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      2 months ago

      I can still hear the white noise ringing of the hard drives that hit you as soon as you walked in. So good

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        2 months ago

        Being constantly connected is bad for us because we haven’t figured out the right coping mechanisms. I bet the generation Gen Z raises will do a lot better since Gen Z will be familiar with exactly how hooked on simulated connectedness you can get

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      2 months ago

      Me and my brother established ourselves as like The computer kids so my extended family just dumped off all there broken and old computers

      Now we have a room, not for using them but to store all the random tech we have accumulated