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I was around during the stone age of the internet (slrpnk.net)

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I remember getting AOL CDs in my box of apple jacks

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I remember AOL on 3.5 floppies. You could put tape over a specific hole and re-use the disk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

You could do that with any copy protected floppy. That was the little sliding tab in the corner. Tab open = read-only. Tab closed = read & write.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember the AOL disks not having the sliding tab, either it had been pried out or it was just a disk that didn't have it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Correct. Any disks that the company didn't want erased, like marketing disks, didn't have the slide tab. Hence the op mentioning they used tape instead.

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