Hah I was the same. Downloaded demos (happypuppy.com, gamesdomain.com), installed on a Jaz drive.
Those iomega devices had a pretty awesome design.
Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2
Doorknob@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
When I was young, I was not allowed to install anything on the family PC whatsoever. I had a 100MB Zip disk and was told anything that I wanted to keep, I could keep on there. That disk got a big workout. Had Duke 3D and the Half-Life Uplink demo on there, plus about 30MB to spare! Great days man.
EitherEther@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Oh, maaaan. HappyPuppy. I haven’t thought of that in ages.
OmgItBurns@discuss.online 13 hours ago
Oh man I forgot about those site! Back in the day my mom couldn’t afford to get me many new video games, so I’d download tons of demos.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Man I was jelly green over classmates that could afford zip drives. They’d bring it to school retiring computer class, whip it out, both showing off and fake-lamenting that oh they didn’t know the school didn’t have zip drives.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Zip drives filled such a small tech window between floppies & CD-Rs.
I was the ubernerd with the Zip 250, lol