I lived through th '90s, and I never seen anything more '90s than this video, proclaiming the evils of illegally copying 3 3/4-inch 3.5-inch floppy discs. If only the PSA's makers could have seen into the future, where floppies are no longer used, thus computer piracy is utterly a thing of the past! Thanks to Skeletor for the tip.
Ironically taken down because of Copyright claims.
lol Neverwinter Nights. Actually Craig, your game got delayed just a little bit.
Oh man does this bring back memories- I saw this back in Fall '93 when my roomate was showing off his screaming fast 486DX. He was demonstrating the graphics with those old demos with the silver balls when he said, "oh! check this out, it's the best quality Full Motion Video clip i've ever seen." We had a good laugh out of it, but the kicker was afterward when we discussed the possibility of watching a whole movie on the computer- we dismissed the idea because you'd need an "enormous" hard drive to hold all that data!
OM,
"...More proof that the "C" is silent in "(c)Rap"."
HILARIOUS.
"And we know what "DP" stands for, thugboy :-P"
Yes, because he plainly states what it stands; Disc Protector.
They were wrong, that's obvious now. It's an economic concept that more sex is safer sex. What that simply means is that it benefited the entire computer industry because overall there are more players than there would have been, and many of them are buying their games.
So in essence, piracy actually helped the industry grow, oddly enough.
Is that Milo Ventimiglia? lol
My children hate me for playing this clip. None of us can get that stupid ear-worm out of our head. I told them that none of us can UNhear it, but we CAN share it with others so we won't be alone in our suffering.
3 3/4 is the size of Star Wars figures right? I'd get that number stuck in my head too.
How could the '90's be "encapsulated" without OJ or Clinton? This post stole more of my life, adjusted for cheese inflation, than the actual '90's. ET's comment was worth it, though.
I hate to admit this, but I'd probably copy that floppy.
I wish 3.5" disks had 3.5 mb. 10 of those things would of been as big as my 35 mb hard drive. Anybody remember the old 386, 486, and even the 586 computers? Thats right 33 mhz of raw power!
...More proof that the "C" is silent in "(c)Rap".
And we know what "DP" stands for, thugboy :-P
In 1997 I spend a summer working for the school district I had just graduated from (installing software, upgrading hardware, etc).
We came across this video, on VHS, in one of the classrooms. It made the team laugh so hard, we started occasionally yelling at each other "DON'T COPY... THAT FLOPPY".
Unfortunately our boss, the directory of technology, heard us. We tried to explain how funny the video was. Apparently we didn't do a good job. She had it copied, and distributed to all the schools in the district, because we'd " liked it" so much.
What has two thumbs and a family which only had an Atari 260 until he left for college? This guy.
oops, my bad. I meant 1.44mb.
The big floppies are 5.25" or 5 1/4. the 3,5 is also the size in inches not megabytes.
1.2mb = 5.25"
1.44mb = 3.5"
Am I the only one who's old enough or geeky enough to see the major typo in this?? Its a 3.5 floppy, not 3 3/4. The big floppys were 1.25 floppy disk. 3.5 stands for the amount of disk space, 3.5 mb.
To be correct, this is not the 90's, this is late 80's/early 90's, a "Entire 90's" video would be a total diferent thing.
Cool vid anyway.
isn't that the guy from Boy Meets World?
It's so cruel and funny all rolled into one.
No! We need more Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiago! Tetris can't Fail!
One of the best anti-piracy arguments I've ever heard: if you make a copy, you don't get the manual. Ohhhhhh, if only the crazy hip hop rapper knew about the future and the Internets and wikipedia...
That is the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life. I can die happy now.
That's not the '90s I remember!
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