this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You didn't have diskettes or CDs in your neck of the woods?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

500 games on 10 CD-ROMs ๐Ÿ‘Œ

(485 of them are shareware demos you can only play for 15 minutes at a time, but still)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I was going to say, I didn't have Internet until college we still had CD-ROMs, game consoles, and of course the public library for Internet when needed. Not that these options aren't excellent free entertainment.