• J.M.@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    And they arrived (because I don’t want to use ‘came’ given this thread already) on cereal boxes.

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      1 year ago

      I had never heard of that around here (Germany). Got my first PC '99, so I should have noticed; was looking everywhere for cheap Software deals. But there were some other companies which gave out free CD-ROMs as advertising with shareware and demo games. Some of those games were never finished, lol.

      The Internet Archive has those Nestlé CDs btw :)

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        1 year ago

        Happened in Canada for sure. The post made me go dig through boxes in the basement and try to remember where my old cdrom drive and cable that would connect to a new Mac would be found. Good times and worth it.

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          1 year ago

          Got no “vintage” hardware sadly. In a VM it’s not the same. I still have a Floppy drive, but those disks were all corrupted eons ago. I wonder how long my heaps of gamer magazine and bundle-box (bought at Aldi for practically nothing _) CDs are still gonna last…

          They were the best of times, that’s for sure!