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Some have asked where the old 1990’s site code came from.
 
As if we didn’t keep backups.
 
(sauce of label: >>180146)

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Derpy Whooves
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Artist -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Artistic Detective - For awesome dedication to sleuthing out and maintaining artist tags and links
Economist -
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!

Looking For My Doctor
@LeAlbinoPony  
There’s places on the planet still running machines that were built then. COBOL happily moving numbers back and forth until the day that the people who know that code die.
Background Pony #1A0C
@Derpy Whooves  
I’m still surprised at how long that has been running for. And a little worried, because I keep having these moments where I’m like, “yeah, it’s been around a few years now, right?” and then I remember it’s getting close to two decades.
Derpy Whooves
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Artist -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Artistic Detective - For awesome dedication to sleuthing out and maintaining artist tags and links
Economist -
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!

Looking For My Doctor
@Background Pony #B30D  
VIC? Oh my gosh now I have the Red Vs Blue theme song stuck in my head.
 
full
 
VIC: This is Vic, at 555-V-I-C-K, doo doodleydoo. I'm not in the cassita right now, so leave your low-down at the ding-dong. Hasta.
 
Church: Hey Vic, this is Church I need ta-  
Vic: You have reached the voice mail system.  
Church: **sigh**, okay okay, come on.  
Vic: To leave a message, just wait for the tone.  
Church: I know how to leave a goddamned message.  
Vic: When you are finished recording, just hang up. Or press pound for more options.  
Church: Really, hang up, no shit. I was just gonna keep talkin' until he decided to check his voice mail.  
Vic: For delivery options, press five.  
Church: Just give me the damn beep!  
Vic: To leave a callback number, press eight. To page this person, press six.  
Church: Come on!  
Vic: To repeat this message, press nine.  
Church: I will fucking stab you computer phone lady.
Background Pony #1A0C
@Background Pony #B30D
There was something very human about machines with parts big enough to solder yourself, or with big levers and latches on the outside that you had to flip and turn and twist, and even disks that had to be manually “centered” so that they wouldn’t tear when you put them on the spindles …
Plus all the PCs back in those days had names to go with them. Commodore 64, VIC-20, Apple II, TRS-80… whatever it was, that was the computer you had. Nowadays when someone asks you what you’re running, your answer is likely going to be a list of the pieces that make it. What processor, what video card(s), amount of RAM, and so on.
 
More powerful, definitely, but it does take away some of the personality that went with them.
Derpy Whooves
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Artist -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Artistic Detective - For awesome dedication to sleuthing out and maintaining artist tags and links
Economist -
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!

Looking For My Doctor
@Background Pony #B30D  
There was something very human about machines with parts big enough to solder yourself, or with big levers and latches on the outside that you had to flip and turn and twist, and even disks that had to be manually “centered” so that they wouldn’t tear when you put them on the spindles …
 
It was an odd, kind of mechanical age of ones and zeros where people used supercased 1 1 1 s to make apostrophes, and ones to make lower case els …
 
Good times.
Background Pony #1A0C
Is that a 5 1/2 or an 8 inch?
I thought it was a 5.25” disk at first, but then I wasn’t so sure. Definitely been a while since I’ve seen either.
 
Is it weird that I always really liked the old drives that ran these disks? There was something very satisfying about putting it in the slot and turning the little lever and hearing that mechanical chunk noise as it locked into place. And even the noises it made reading the disk were kind of nice. It felt like progress was being made, or something.
 
Kind of a weird thing to look back on fondly, but then I see people getting nostalgic over old modem noises too, so maybe it isn’t too out there.