I lived through th '90s, and I never seen anything more '90s than this video, proclaiming the evils of illegally copying
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Skeletor said:
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...
Posted 11/26/2008 at 07:46:14 AM
Pudge said:
No! We need more Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiago! Tetris can't Fail!
Posted 11/26/2008 at 07:48:37 AM
Mike said:
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.
Posted 11/26/2008 at 08:20:37 AM
T-VO said:
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.
Posted 11/26/2008 at 08:36:30 AM
RCON said:
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"
Posted 11/26/2008 at 08:52:15 AM
ET said:
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.
Posted 11/26/2008 at 09:13:37 AM
OM said:
...More proof that the "C" is silent in "(c)Rap".
And we know what "DP" stands for, thugboy :-P
Posted 11/26/2008 at 10:17:53 AM
Winzerous said:
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!
Posted 11/26/2008 at 01:17:15 PM
Ekko said:
I hate to admit this, but I'd probably copy that floppy.
Posted 11/26/2008 at 03:35:40 PM
mike said:
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.
Posted 11/26/2008 at 07:13:44 PM
Arcane said:
3 3/4 is the size of Star Wars figures right? I'd get that number stuck in my head too.
Posted 11/26/2008 at 08:32:31 PM
spectrespire said:
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.
Posted 11/27/2008 at 08:30:13 AM
CD_Vision said:
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.
Posted 11/27/2008 at 10:25:35 AM
Hibiscus said:
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.
Posted 11/27/2008 at 12:31:23 PM
Wrassilon said:
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!
Posted 11/27/2008 at 06:44:38 PM
Brett said:
lol Neverwinter Nights. Actually Craig, your game got delayed just a little bit.
Posted 12/01/2008 at 08:04:26 AM






