Last 2 days of NS and I will be collecting my IC on Friday.. which explains why the lack of post from me and perhaps the odd hour of this particular one.

About 9 Years Ago...

1.) You refer to Pentium as 586 and giggle with the thought of tongue twisting 686 computers
2.) You cursed when you bought the Pentium 200MHz to find that Pentium MMX 200MHz came out a month later.
3.) 4X, 6X, 8X, 12X... CD-ROMs
4.) Video cards start to have 2mb memory of its own
5.) You can format your 1.44mb 3.5" Diskette into 1.96mb Diskettes
6.) Microsoft DOS 6.2 and Windows 95
7.) You keep refering folders as directories
8.) You know how to make the Start button disappear and giggle whenever the teacher/colleague scream in horror at the disappearance.
9.) 14.4Kbps modem is so yesterday, 28.8kbps modem is for now and 56kbps is just around the corner
10.) Piracy moved on to CD-ROMs and you know the uncle in Bukit Timah Shopping Centre with his "regular customer" catalogue.
11.) You also learned that he was caught from CNET Asia news few years later.
12.) Inkjet came to market but it's comes only in black colour printing.
13.) Music piracy started in the internet. RealAudio format is small enough for downloading via internet. MP3 was born
14.) The first and most successful internet business model, AKA Pr0n, is firmly established
15.) One Singaporean guy makes it big with Soundblaster 16, 32, AWE etc...
16.) Some more fortunate friend starts to have broadband at home.
17.) You have your own channel in mIRC
18.) Gamers: Warcraft: ORCs and Humans & Dune II & DOOM II
19.) Overclocking became more common.
20.) Programmers: C, C++

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