• cyberpunk007@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t even think VMs were a thing when I started. I remember dual booting back to Windows to google shit to fix drivers then then back 😂

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      1 year ago

      Technically VMs are older than Windows, but it was not super accessible in the 90s and early 00s which is when I’m guessing you were doing this.

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      1 year ago

      What’s this “Google” thing you speak of? Back in my days you bought a huge book which came with a red hat or mandrake CD-ROM.

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          In France ADSL was still a couple years away, so it was actually cheaper to buy the book and the CD instead of downloading the ISO and looking up documentation online.

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            I had hand-scribbled instructions from said fat kid’s older brother. It was in a sticker-bombed binder. And they weren’t, like, cool stickers. It was just like promo shit for hardware and industrial equipment manufacturers.