Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note' - eviltoast
  • prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    Don’t copy that floppy!

    I think the generational shift was mostly that the previous generation just didn’t have or use computers at home, and suddenly they were everywhere. Most households just didn’t have a computer until the late 90s or early 00s. By then, floppies were on their way out, and burning CDs was all the rage.

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      8 days ago

      For a class project in college, I made a 5-disk raid-0 out of floppy drives and demo’d the performance by playing a compressed version of “don’t copy that floppy” for the class. Thankfully my lecturer had a sense of humor lol.