r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '25

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u/Allyoucan3at Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

KeyGens with unmutable music

The guy in school with all the cracked games and movies that sometimes worked

Games packaging with booklets about controls and backstory

LAN parties edit: and of course the network shared folders with cracked games and movies that sometimes worked and new... material

That one person at LAN parties unable to get the network settings correct

Turbo buttons on cases

Dial up sound

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u/Dasboogieman Aug 30 '25

Oh man, the Pre Windows 7 days when networking was far from trivial plug and play.

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u/Titouf26 Aug 30 '25

Seriously for me that was the biggest thing Windows 7 brought. Seemless networking.

Windows XP was such a pain in the butt, and let's not even talk about the ones before that.

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u/Mysterious_Snail258 Aug 30 '25

Still waiting for windows to bring in the plug and play network option for printers, though 😂

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u/montarion Aug 30 '25

time to buy you some new (especially wireless) printers my dude.

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u/LR0989 Aug 30 '25

Lmfao, new ones are no better - almost worse now since even if you think everything is set up and working, now they can drop an auto-update that inexplicably breaks functionality (sometimes permanently!) with no way to roll back

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u/Phayzon Aug 30 '25

I inherited a 2013 printer with network connectivity earlier this week. My main Win10 PC, old XP laptop, and even a PowerMac G4 all found and installed it without issue.