• DashboTreeFrog
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        1 day ago

        Hitting the power button on the family computer then putting together a snack while the computer fully boots.

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          23 hours ago

          I think about this from time to time, how it was normal to take 5-10 minutes for a computer to boot up at one point in time. Now my PC is up in seconds, and that’s from a cold start.

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            23 hours ago

            Yeah, I remember getting a newer laptop in my late teens and having this moment of “I don’t have time to make a snack…” For better and for worse the wait times we used to fill with little comforts just went poof

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              22 hours ago

              To think, we all thought that email for a free cup holder, which opened the disc tray, was a joke… If only we knew…