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I was around during the stone age of the internet (slrpnk.net)
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I remember getting AOL CDs in my box of apple jacks

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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember AOL on 3.5 floppies. You could put tape over a specific hole and re-use the disk.

[–] teft@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You could do that with any copy protected floppy. That was the little sliding tab in the corner. Tab open = read-only. Tab closed = read & write.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember the AOL disks not having the sliding tab, either it had been pried out or it was just a disk that didn't have it.

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

AOL didn't want you to reuse them so they didn't have the tab

[–] teft@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Correct. Any disks that the company didn't want erased, like marketing disks, didn't have the slide tab. Hence the op mentioning they used tape instead.

[–] Senuf@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Same principle as with cassettes/music tapes.