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by gao8a 2056 days ago
This might not be for you, and not for me either.

But it's for the 13 y/o me that was figuring out how to use alcohol 120% to burn the latest games or fix my computer from all the viruses I got downloading movies and music at that time from p2p.

And if it wasn't for that pursuit that led to many other skills and opportunities, I know a lot of us wouldn't be in the financial situations we are in right now.

2 comments

alcohol 120%! That gave me instant nostalgia, I can almost remember that logo heh
I remember getting alcohol 120% from a less than reputable source. Soon my Windows ME install was dead and the BIOS could no longer boot from CD. That computer was dead...
Yeah but that was just WinME 's normal behavior.
Oh meep, one of those viruses that overwrites those ranges in lower memory...

Did you ever try to boot it from a floppy, just to see what would happen?

No. I was still pretty young and not that knowledgeable yet. My dad was more of a power user than an expert. It went to the basement and I got a used Dell with Windows XP several months later.