• atomicorange@lemmy.world
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    Y’all remember the computer room? Like that guest bedroom or whatever that wasn’t really used for anything other than housing The Computer?

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      Plus all the accoutrements that invariably went along with The Computer.

      A printer and a scanner

      A filing cabinet for all the things you liked to print and scan

      A rack full of CD-ROM disks like Encarta 95 and Ecco The Dolphin and CorelDRAW 4

      A beige container with clear plastic lid for storing floppy disks, that for some reason had a lock on it as if floppy disks were the Crown Jewels

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        I still have all this stuff and the room. probably because I am not good at cleaning. also the office chair straight out of 90s. Maybe if enough time passes of not throwing things out I will be able to open a museum and make some extra

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            I don’t know, I feel like office chairs are made for some aliens. Never found one that is comfortable so I always sit like some fucking crab in a jar, feet on the table, hands desperately trying to maintain stable connection to peripherals.
            Truth to be said I gave up on sitting. I do all my work reclined, slightly stoned, half nude with an air fan on max setting in a 25 wet bulb celsius

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        So many accoutrements! This was also the original home of the box of random cables that lived under the bed. Some day I’ll be buried with those cables.

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        I had about 4 different boxes of floppies, with different keys for each. Any key worked in any lock. The handle of a spoon worked in any of the locks.

        Just don’t forget to put the dust cover back on the CRT monitor and keyboard when you were done!

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          A do miss the degauss button.

          Edit: There has to be an app that would simulate the button, right? I did a quick search just now and found one for iphone, another for android, but too old so it’s no longer available/working. I’ll look some more tomorrow.

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      I can still hear the white noise ringing of the hard drives that hit you as soon as you walked in. So good

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      When my mom took my computer out of my room, I used to crawl to the computer room after she went to bed to use it. Fun times.

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        I knew a kid whose mom didn’t want him using the internet after she went to bed so she unplugged their cable modem each night and locked it in a goddamn safe lol. I think he eventually found a similar model at CompUSA or Best Buy and just got his own.

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      Me and my brother established ourselves as like The computer kids so my extended family just dumped off all there broken and old computers

      Now we have a room, not for using them but to store all the random tech we have accumulated

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      And it was always cold because someone’s father would always say something like “I’m not paying to heat that room no one is ever in it.”