About 12 Years Ago...

1.) 3.5" Disk have so much disk space.
2.) 100mb Harddisk, 4mb memory and a CD-ROM drive is cool.
3.) You are so proud of getting a 486DX 40Mhz when the rest are using 386 or 486SX.
4.) Microsoft DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1
5.) You know the difference between EMS & XMS and curse when the games only support one of them
6.) You configured your config.sys and autoexec.bat so that they give you 16 startup options including booting in japanese DOS.
7.) Never heard of Sim Lim, the Mecca of all things Nerd for computers
8.) Piracy started before the term was coined. Games can be copied @ S$1 per diskette if you provide your own or about S$2 per diskette if you used theirs.
9.) PCShell or other hex editing tools are so cool that you changed the DIR command into DEL and vice versa and watch in glee when the teacher came over to discover it in horror.
10.) Getting a virus means your disk get renamed as BRAIN.
11.) McAfee v123 for virus scan
12.) You know the difference between Alt-20 and Alt-255. The later is to keep pesky people from accessing your information, the earlier is the largest key on your keyboard.
13.) You think in Hexadecimal: 64=100, FF=255, E803=1,000, 1027=10,000 to cheat on your games.
14.) The first pr0n you came across is in the game Cobra Mission or Knights of Xentar (1994) and it's so fun.
15.) ADLIB is for music and Soundblaster is for sound effects
16.) WordPerfect
17.) Gamers: Civilization & Sim City
18.) Programmers: Turbo PASCAL

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