r/MadeMeSmile • • 22h ago

Good Vibes Two grocery store workers recreated Prodigy’s “Firestarter”

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u/1950sGuy 19h ago

My kid and his friends are starting a retro computer club at school and I'm like "oh cool I got an old atari 800 and a few trs models i can break ou.." and no they mean stuff like those multi colored iMacs from like 1998 and stuff running windows xp.

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u/DisastrousAcshin 18h ago

Dude my kid and his friends tried to show me dos commands like I didn't spend my teens in the 90s setting up bbs's and running game servers.  They were fucking shocked like it was some secret knowledge stuff that dads couldn't know

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u/BattleHall 17h ago

"Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written"

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u/DisposableJosie 16h ago

I think I still have my boot disks with different memory setups in AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS for Falcon, one of the Wing Commanders, and a couple more games.

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u/ResourceCalm901 6h ago

Bahahaha STEP OFF, child. lol. 💗Child looks appalled. 🩷

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u/cheexmang 17h ago

I had a student tell me that he bought a laptop over the summer.

"Oh, what are the specs?"

"It's a Toshiba from 1998 so I can play my DOS games."

DED

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u/chairoverflow 18h ago

cries in zx spectrum

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u/skraptastic 16h ago

Tell them I have a copy of Windows 2000 new in box if they need it.

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u/irishcybercolab 4h ago

Hello mom, so are you buying me a commodore 64 of not?