when i was still fumbling around 
there’s more somewhere , i know it lol
my win copys is buried somewhere i can’t even find it
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shiny discs with a hole in them. I’m sure I’ve seen them before. Let me think 
… oh yeah! I remember those! Good old days. 
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I don’t have any of my “back in the day media” but it wasn’t on CD and wasn’t from 2023. 
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You know, I was kinda glad to leave write-once media behind.
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I got several of those in some desk drawers. Linux distros, windows systems, and game cds from various Linux and computer magazines.
those look original , mine were all cracked with keys included and other add ons lol
fun times 
u mean floppys ? 
Yes. My first distro was slackware which I downloaded onto a bunch of 3.5" disks in the mid-90s.
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I really liked Lotus Ami Pro, much more than Word.
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I definitely remember Lotus 1-2-3 being a lot better than Excel.
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Forgot about Lotus 1-2-3 - didn’t use spreadsheets back then. It had a good reputation.
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yoh you guys are going WAY back lol , i only started with pc’s on win xp i think 
but i kinda remember floppies , my mom was a computerz lecturer way back then , like 100yrs ago
she had like suitcases full of floppies lol
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Dude, don’t throw your mom under the bus, she isn’t that old.
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But now that floppies were mentioned, I remembered. Yes, still in the box too. Needed it as “bootloader+initramfs” for the Win95 CD on an empty system:
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There was a time in my area when you could buy pirated copies of Windows 98 SE and a variety of game CDs at the night market. The only Linux distribution I came across back then was Red Hat 7. 
Another application was WordStar, followed by WordPerfect.
Ah, we had heated discussions about diskettes being the name for what your photo is showing, and that floppies were a different beast altogether:
I used 8 inch floppies a couple of times; I believed 1.44 Mb double density diskettes were a decadent extravagance; you’d hardly ever need those.
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Never came up, because I didn’t have extended conversations in English back then. It was just “Diskette”. Similarly there was never the need for a discussion how to pronounce “gif”. 
Technically yeah, that isn’t a floppy disk. But I would say we also called the real floppies just “Diskette” here.