@lina
From the reuse of XP icons, this looks a lot newer, but the same idea.
@lina
The same was true for dlh too. It has trainers and guides in the offline database. Even some savegames it seems. Managed to find it on archive.org.
@Curvin
Yup. It stopped being updated in 2006, but it had cheats, trainers, guides, tips, walkthroughs, everything you could have needed to get through a game. I guess it was more useful in the days when regular internet access wasn't a thing, since you'd download it once and keep it on hdd.
@alyx boomers...
@Mr_NutterButter
Back in my days...
@alyx how far back we talking the dinosaurs...
@Mr_NutterButter
Is the 3rd time the charm?
Anyway, dlh is more millennial generation than boomer. Still pretty old stuff. I don't expect many people to remember 1998 software.
@alyx legend tells of a species of human that was born after such marvels of technology were created.
Legend even says you may even be speaking to one without even knowing it.
@Mr_NutterButter
You're one of those miracle babies that never used a floppy or has never had to untangle cassette tape.
@alyx quite possibly
@alyx but old enough to remember how shit those things were when the adults took them out of storage and try to use them around me.
@Mr_NutterButter
You kinda need to use them yourself to see the beauty. Seeing someone else use them is like watching someone else use marijuana and expecting you get a high.
@alyx @Mr_NutterButter I remember when we had dead air between things. I used to have to rewind a vhs, and while that was going on I just had to sing in my head or something to pass the time.
@kallisti @Mr_NutterButter
Those I never got to use. I saw them here and there, but I only used 3.5 floppies.
@kallisti @Mr_NutterButter
I've seen USB floppy drive units before, but only 3.5 ones.
@kallisti @Mr_NutterButter
I think I remember seeing something similar... I remember a demonstration where someone put multiple floppy disc images on a flash storage, and he could change the image the computer saw at the push of a physical button.
@kallisti @Mr_NutterButter
I think it depends a bit on where you were born too. Technically the cassette was already obsolete in the 90s, but I saw use up to the mid 2000s.