June 26th, 2009
Zip Drive
Aparently I struck a nerve on Wednesday when I talked about zip drives.
As ephemeral as computer technology normally is, I feel like zip drives had an even briefer life-span. Did anyone use them other than college students in the late 90s/early 00s?
June 26th, 2009 at 12:13 am
SNOOD!!! So everyone in the labs played Snood, then? ;-)
June 26th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Of course! Well, at least until the computers became clogged with all of the adware that came with Snood ;-)
June 26th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Haha, zip drives. I did an obsolete electronics purge recently and got rid of an old zip drive, which was bought as a back-up system for my machine. It was still in its plastic and everything, but by the time I got around to thinking about setting it up it was already useless. You have to be just the right age to even remember them!
June 26th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Snood; it was good because it had different shapes, whereas other Bubble Bobble type games had different colors, and either the red & green or the yellow & green would look the same to me.
Also, Zip drives are the devil!
June 26th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
PBJay: Yeah. I mean, I remember when a computer with a 100mb hard drive was huge, so I can still feel excited about having that on a disc, but when my outdated iPod can hold as much as 40 of those (and my computer 800) they might be a little dated. The thing is, they also weren’t around long enough to breed much nostalgia. I’d love to have a dot-matrix printer again, but I can’t even think of novel uses for a zip drive.
Sean Et Cetera: Wow, I never even thought about color-blindness in relation to Bubble Bobble.