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We remember when this was all fields, and lived a furtive life of dial-up modems and dodgy newsgroups. Tell us about how you came to love the internets.

(, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 11:56)
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Novell netware came on something like 120 floppy disks
...and if you hadn't got up to a certain point of the installation before some driver or other crashed the installation you started right back at square one. It could take days to set one up.

I bet a lot of junior installation engineers lost their jobs once it was released on 1 CD-ROM.
(, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 12:18, 1 reply)
Hah.
True.

I remember when all this was fields.
(, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 14:59, closed)
I remember...
When all this was text fields.
(, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:26, closed)

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