Being a teen in the 90's

boppy28 · 2012-09-18T19:51:23+00:00

From memory, you couldn't get the whole 1.44 MB onto the disk.

arthuresque · 2012-09-18T23:31:33+00:00

That's why I had a ZIP drive.

midsprat123 · 2012-09-18T19:42:25+00:00

too lazy to do it but a floppy disc could at maximum hold 1.44 MB of data

Ratonhaketon · 2012-09-18T16:45:58+00:00

Yep that's how we shared our porn between friends for me in 2000. Still remember they were covered with black electrical tape to distinguish them from homework ones.

thegregbradley · 2012-09-18T21:00:10+00:00

How much more? 0.4mb?

Stormdancer · 2012-09-18T20:35:29+00:00

And it's all at a massive 640x480 res!

zerg_rush_lol · 2012-09-18T21:14:15+00:00

To everyone saying a floppy only holds 1.44MB: It's called File compression. One can easily fit twice that amount with a heavily compressed file.

gthing · 2012-09-18T20:22:13+00:00

I once had a kid come to school with a bunch of floppies and try to sell them to me. They contained an anarchy zine that I had written under a pseudonym. Which he pronounced incorrectly.

the4thaggie · 2012-09-18T21:07:55+00:00

I remember those days. We had to either cut a picture in half or use a utility to create a spanning archive across 2 or more floppies.

Idiotank · 2012-09-18T21:16:30+00:00

I had a blue one that held 2.8mb I felt like the king of fap.

pseudalithia · 2012-09-18T21:36:15+00:00

Jason Alexander?

FatherSpacetime · 2012-09-18T21:45:37+00:00

Harry potter?

rock_hard_member · 2012-09-18T21:46:51+00:00

He won't have a floppy disk for long...

MindlessDreamer · 2012-09-18T22:11:22+00:00

Oh right, missed that part

Chrispanic · 2012-09-18T22:31:47+00:00

2 jpegs. Sometimes all you needed.

pSyChO_aSyLuM · 2012-09-18T22:33:56+00:00

On Windows you could only get 1.38MB on that fucker.

pefyeah · 2012-09-18T22:44:39+00:00

Yep. 1.4Mb of Jenny McCarthy and Pamela Anderson pictures. At least 4 of each.

JoeRuinsEverything · 2012-09-18T22:45:59+00:00

We had a dude in school who had tons of jpegs (really low rez by nowadays standards) and he would load them onto the floppy disks you gave him. The only problem was that he had some kind of weird hair fetish. You wouldn't look twice at those pictures nowadays, but back then even women with a really weird 70s bush, afros under their armpits and really hairy legs were great.

Ian_Itor · 2012-09-18T22:46:18+00:00

I've got a big fat caption on my forehead

DoesntFearZeus · 2012-09-18T22:47:32+00:00

My most cherished possession for a year or so was 3 floppies of porn I got off a friend that had Prodigy. Then I got the internet and a zip drive. Life was good for a while there.

Dirge37 · 2012-09-18T22:52:21+00:00

It was like, "found this dirty mag" or "my friend let me borrow this videotape of some people doing it".. I didn't really get the floppy disc thing

Decatf · 2012-09-18T22:56:18+00:00

I used WinZip to create a spanned archive.

Crozius · 2012-09-18T23:06:45+00:00

I call shenanigans.

Ace1999 · 2012-09-18T23:06:55+00:00

Don't forget the gif viewer.

smudgel · 2012-09-18T23:09:03+00:00

Phht. In the 80's, we only had 512Kb of porn. And it was loud.

LasciviousSycophant · 2012-09-18T23:25:39+00:00

I wept tears of joy when zip drives were invented.

rob-cubed · 2012-09-18T23:27:07+00:00

Nothing like viewing an animated GIF that looked like it was pixelated for your safety!

Anyone old enough to remember saving data to cassette tapes? Or the days of Atari's "Custer's Revenge"?

new_abcdefghijkl · 2012-09-18T23:29:58+00:00

Its George Costanza!

Cirbstomp · 2012-09-18T23:50:29+00:00

Looks like he's got 1.4MB of shit on his upper lip

timelychime · 2012-09-19T00:25:36+00:00

I remember hiding those little floppies of porn everywhere, too paranoid to leave it on computer cause our family only had one. Years pass when I was helping my family to move; my dad brings me a case of floppies saying "remember when you use to hide porn all over the house?"

Skeeter715 · 2012-09-19T00:41:05+00:00

He wears a sports tie, but has probably never seen outside.

nobleach · 2012-09-19T00:46:09+00:00

But you had to have Cshow too to display those Gifs.

lordhumunguss · 2012-09-19T00:48:10+00:00

To hold a typical song--which took like 20 mins to download in 1999--you'd need something like 4-5 of those floppy disks. Mind = blown.

k3u · 2012-09-19T00:58:21+00:00

"What is that, like half a picture?"

whatnoreally · 2012-09-19T01:05:26+00:00

admit it. no teen in the 90's had that stash if they watched porn. with a stash like that in the 90's u didnt need porn. (sorta like a mullet in the 80's)

clarifried · 2012-09-19T01:26:27+00:00

And its all in 4-color gifs, which you can actually watch as they download each line!

256 color porn was a huge leap forward, my friends.

mgkunz89 · 2012-09-19T01:49:42+00:00

That looks like Harry Potter

pretty_jimmy · 2012-09-19T02:01:37+00:00

i was so jacked when zip disks came out.

essbeezee · 2012-09-19T02:20:21+00:00

Unfortunately, this guy looks like he might have CP.

jinklmun · 2012-09-19T02:27:52+00:00

COSTANZA

lykoong · 2012-09-19T02:34:27+00:00

Reminds me of someone who labeled his porn disk as maps for StarCraft.

colber · 2012-09-19T02:41:00+00:00

Am I missing something? Because that looks an assload like a nerdy Rob Dyrdek

ObamaCookies · 2012-09-19T02:43:57+00:00

Good memories

ancientdragon92 · 2012-09-19T02:58:09+00:00

Can someone please get me this picture with out the text?

ERankLuck · 2012-09-19T02:59:46+00:00

1.4MB? Did he decide to skip out on formatting the disk?

neogetz · 2012-09-19T03:12:03+00:00

god i miss floppies. The read/write capability along with being big enough not to lose while small enough to pocket. Also, the afordability to just give them away.

Memory sticks are all well and good, but too easily lost and too expensive still to just give out.

Was the perfect amount of memory for the size of files back then. I had one with 15 whole games on.

YoureReadingThis · 2012-09-19T03:14:05+00:00

I took pictures of porn on the computer screen with my Gameboy Camera. Pocket porn!

Insanitor37 · 2012-09-19T03:21:33+00:00

ONLY 90'S KIDS WILL REMEMBER THIS

MikeyB_0101 · 2012-09-19T03:24:17+00:00

Please, that's what a ZIP drive was for ...

CoyoteStark · 2012-09-19T03:36:18+00:00

A teen in the 90's had no idea how to use a computer. We used magazines and imagination.

TexasTechRaider · 2012-09-19T03:48:19+00:00

Adding porn to the "floppy drive" made it a "hard drive".

Ineebu · 2012-09-19T04:45:21+00:00

Hah. I had a thick three-ring binder just full of those! I was always running out of room in the stash and having to go buy more.

They failed if you looked at 'em funny, too. Good times.

parzx · 2012-09-19T04:48:25+00:00

No wonder 90s porn addicts can't last very long

shifty_coder · 2012-09-19T04:54:18+00:00

Who would be dumb enough to put porn on a floppy disk? You gotta reel-to-reel that shit.

fubes2000 · 2012-09-19T05:00:59+00:00

Box of floppies and WinRar, or sending files via HyperTerm and a modem-to-modem connection.

Good times.

DeLoreanMotorCars · 2012-09-18T19:40:20+00:00

So original, OP.

alieninfiltrator · 2012-09-18T20:02:19+00:00

Porn was not something publicly discussed without some shame in the 90's. People were more sensitive to the stigma culture had about it. The stigma still is there but as a 30-something you youngsters are waaaaaaaay more public with sex talk than people in my generation were.

Sariel007 · 2012-09-18T20:22:59+00:00

One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

great_gape · 2012-09-18T23:10:15+00:00

How did you play Call of Duty!?!?!?!!!11!1?!

funny

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