Krulsprietje@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 years agoWhat’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s?message-squaremessage-square423linkfedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down113
arrow-up1222arrow-down1message-squareWhat’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s?Krulsprietje@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 years agomessage-square423linkfedilink
minus-squarePurpleSheeple@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 years agoWas the floppy disc typically 90’s?
minus-squareviking@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 years ago80’s, early 90’s. I think from '92 or so onwards, CD-ROM drives became standard equipment for home computers, but until the late 90’s they still came equipped with a floppy drive, if only to boot into recovery mode after a crash.
minus-squarewheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 years agoBecause CDs weren’t commonly writeable until almost a decade later.
Was the floppy disc typically 90’s?
80’s, early 90’s. I think from '92 or so onwards, CD-ROM drives became standard equipment for home computers, but until the late 90’s they still came equipped with a floppy drive, if only to boot into recovery mode after a crash.
Because CDs weren’t commonly writeable until almost a decade later.