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    Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen

    RIP GeoCities, You Will Be Missed

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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    09/18/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen
    Betcha it's full of cash?
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    Image of Margatron Margatron
    09/18/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen
    It raises a good question. Are there any gadgets that you guys own that have sentimental value? For me, it's my (still functioning-ish) NES which my brother and I got when we were little.
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    Image of wolfsingleton wolfsingleton
    09/17/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen
    Dude cares about a friggin floppy drive, yet has a decent color printer to make up the fliers... odd.
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    Platypus Man promoted this comment wolfsingleton was starred wolfsingleton was unstarred
    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    09/17/09

    @wolfsingleton: It says right in it that it's sentimental. Your guess is as good as why, but it's hardly the functionality that he cares about.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    09/18/09

    @Platypus Man: I doubt its sentimental. Probably has something illegal hidden in it. Either on a disk in the bay, or on the inside of the case.
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    Image of 1shado1 1shado1
    09/17/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen
    That's "wheelbarrow", not "wheel barrel". You guys are priceless.
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    spannu promoted this comment 1shado1 was starred 1shado1 was unstarred
    Image of spannu spannu
    09/17/09

    @1shado1: You mean you don't keep a barrel of extra wheels in your garage?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    09/17/09

    @1shado1: Round my parts, we done call that there a "Polish Pick-up". BTW, I'm part Polish, so I can say that.
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    Image of myxylplyx myxylplyx
    09/17/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen

    I just bought this shirt from threadless. Reminds me of this guy.
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    spannu promoted this comment Edited by myxylplyx at 09/17/09 10:35 PM myxylplyx was starred myxylplyx was unstarred
    Image of cealigbe cealigbe
    09/17/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen
    OMG, when was this a viable format!!! 1.4 MB wouldn't store a hi-res photo from my 10 MP camera! If I lost this I would not even care, if there was ever anything important that could fit in a floppy, it would be on an external HD by now
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    Image of dc-united dc-united
    09/17/09

    @cealigbe: There were no digital cameras when this format was in use. There were no external hard disks, besides the ones that were used by minicomputers and mainframes.

    Just for reference, the first IBM PC XT sold with a 5MB hard disk. Think about that, and thank your lucky stars.
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    deanbmmv promoted this comment dc-united was starred dc-united was unstarred
    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    09/17/09

    @cealigbe: it figures that someone who would use OMG wouldn't remember when the almight floppy was a viable format.
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    Nowell promoted this comment Anonymoose was starred Anonymoose was unstarred
    Image of Nowell Nowell
    09/17/09

    @Anonymoose: Oh the old days. Who remembers playing Legend of the Red Dragon on a BBS?
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    09/17/09

    @dc-united: Our art dep't had a Digi-cam that used a Floppy drive.
    Can't remember the megapixel or type (this was many years ago). It seem's really archaic now. Damn I got a 64mb flash drive the year later for storing final projects on, wasn't cheap either. worked out mb for mb the same price as a floppy iirc.

    /nostalgia-aaaah
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    Image of Hack Handyman Hack Handyman
    09/18/09

    @Nowell: I has a star?: Thanks, I'm sure my boss will really appreciate you keeping me awake all night searching for telnet servers running door games... maybe some BRE and TW2002 as well
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    Nowell: I has a star? promoted this comment Hack Handyman was starred Hack Handyman was unstarred
    Image of Nowell Nowell
    09/18/09

    @Hack Handyman: No problem :) There's actually a browser based one called like "Legend of the Green Dragon" plays exactly the same. Though I don't know if the infinite gold casino trick works like it used to.
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    Image of Sunburn_summer Sunburn_summer
    09/18/09

    @Nowell: hehehe... I remember having to go through tons of floppy's for bigger games. I think countdown was like 11 disks or something stupid. Did anybody play sopwith.
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    Gann promoted this comment Edited by Sunburn_summer at 09/18/09 1:13 AM Sunburn_summer was starred Sunburn_summer was unstarred
    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    09/18/09

    @Nowell: Don't forget Trade Wars!
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    Image of Gann Gann
    09/18/09

    @Sunburn_summer: Ah, sopwith.... that was a fun game.
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    Image of eluvatar eluvatar
    09/17/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen
    a fiew questions...
    who has a floppy drive?
    who would steal a floppy drive?
    who cares?
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    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    09/17/09

    @eluvatar: evan. evan cares. and probably the care bears as well. they are a very sympathetic bunch of bears, probably the most sympathetic bears on the planet.
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    deanbmmv promoted this comment Anonymoose was starred Anonymoose was unstarred
    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    09/17/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen
    5 bucks someone from the family took those and threw it up on a landfill or something.
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    Image of gp1138 gp1138
    09/17/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen
    What the hell is a "wheel barrel"??
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    Image of CaseyG CaseyG
    09/17/09

    @gp1138: [englishrussia.com]

    Glad I could help.
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    deanbmmv promoted this comment CaseyG was starred CaseyG was unstarred
    Image of coolkid1717 coolkid1717
    09/17/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen
    some one scribbled "HA HA" on the side
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    Image of Faslane's avatar is squished Faslane's avatar is squished
    09/17/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen
    "Also Gum" LOL poor kid/Guy :-(
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    Image of dingus dingus
    09/17/09

    @iPhone Home Now!: If only "Also Gum" would replace that stupid Kanye meme...
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/17/09

    In reply to Sad, Sad Man's Life Gets More Sad When Floppy Drive Is Stolen
    How does he know it was stolen and not thrown away for his sake?
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    09/17/09

    @ripfire:
    "THAT WAS ALL THE MONEY KAREN! GODDAMNIT! WHY DID YOU DO THAT! THAT WAS OUR MONEY! WHY DID YOU DO THAT KAREN!?!"
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/17/09

    @TheCrudMan: I swear to you Henry they would have found it!
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    09/17/09

    @ripfire:
    lol.
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    04/24/09

    In reply to RIP GeoCities, You Will Be Missed
    Boo, hoo, hoo. One of my earliest websites... what will I do with it? I don't even own the car any more.
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    Image of Unknown2U Unknown2U
    04/23/09

    In reply to RIP GeoCities, You Will Be Missed
    I remember Angel Fire Pages too
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/23/09

    @Unknown2U: I had an Angelfire page. I still don't understand why they chose that name. I just remember that they gave you the most storage space at one point.
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    Image of StupidSimple StupidSimple
    04/23/09

    In reply to RIP GeoCities, You Will Be Missed
    I'm surprised they were still around. Horrible speeds at best.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/23/09

    @stupidsimple: I'm surprised that it took so long for MySpace to obliterate them. Most people like shiny, user-friendly services with pretty pictures, not the old school hosting that GeoCities had.


    That being said, it is sort of sad. My first programming experiences were in HTML on websites like GeoCities.

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    Image of livinzlife livinzlife
    04/23/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Myspace is shiny and user friendly? Myspace is awful.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/23/09

    @livinzlife: Actually, you're right. But compared to Geocities? In any case, Facebook seems to be picking up speed now...
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