Old computing things you do NOT miss

[Simon]

I'll start with... defragging

 

[Luna]

 

[Buster]

I'll start with... defragging

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I still do this...

 

[Luna]

I don't miss getting kicked off the internet every time my parent's needed to make a phone call. Or that annoying popping sound the speakers would make when an old cellphone was in use nearby

I had dial-up until I was in highschool.

 

[Ric]

Dependency hell. This was big in the AOL days.

 

[Boyle]

Slow, bad internet and low onboard memory.

 

[Cascsiany]

AOL dial-up. IYKYK

It was never as fast as the gif makes it seem.

 

[candle86]

Limewire, I got so many viruses back in the day, thank god for spotify lol

 

[Shark]

Limewire, I got so many viruses back in the day, thank god for spotify lol

I always called it "getting digital aids" when it came to Limewire.

 

[candle86]

Oh ive got one, having to make a custom config.sys and autoexec.bat to turn off optical drives ect so you can free up enough conventional memory to launch your games in dos, as well as having to fix IRQ's via jumpers when changing hardware.