• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    You laugh but I’m glad Ive got a picture of my driver’s license favorited so I can find my license number easily without having to get up and find my wallet when some random form wants it.

    Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key but can’t remember my own driver’s license number.

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      23 hours ago

      Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key

      …h…how many times did you have to reinstall Windows 95?*

      *Before 98 came out? Lol

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        21 hours ago

        IT professional… SO MANY TIMES. Any not just reinstall, we were upgrading and doing primary installs.

        I knew a 95 key and an office key. (which was easy because 1201234567 worked on O2k

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          17 hours ago

          This makes so much sense hahaha.

          Probably giving away my years, but in my brain’s personal experience, Windows starts being an IT OS around the XP era. :p

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            15 hours ago

            Nobody was going to stay on 3.11

            NT really lacked drivers and was super expensive.

            We used 95, skipped 98 until se came out. We did a fair amount of Win2k, XP was pretty rough until service pack 2. When Serviceback 3 hit, we eradicated everything else on the desktop.

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        21 hours ago

        A lot. I had a Packard Bell 486 that came with 3.1 and a free upgrade. Except I would constantly get “Explorer.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down” error.

        One day I decided to compress the hard drive and for some reason, that fixed it. It never happened again.