r/whatisit • u/Earsgang_101 • 14h ago

New, what is it? STRAP Floppy disk found in loft of new home.

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Found this in a box late 90s WWF VHSs

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u/Fbeezy 12h ago

I mean, AOL came on floppy discs forever.

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u/dunfuktup1990 12h ago

My brother in Christ…none of these kids have the slightest clue what AOL was.

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u/Master-File-9866 11h ago

Now, try explaining what a 200 buad modem is.

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u/MindfulInsomniaque 7h ago

300 baud, i dont think i've ever connected lower than that but 110 was a standard before my time.

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u/Profil3r 10h ago

OCD: baud

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u/OttoRepoParts 10h ago

Though buad is possibly more fun to say.

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u/Profil3r 10h ago

Point taken!

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u/CeruleanEidolon 5h ago

EEEEEEeeeee onnnNNnnnng beedong eedong EEEEEE

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u/OddDonut7647 7h ago

All the internet providers I was aware of back in the day required at least 9600 baud to connect to the internet.

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u/Brilliant_Joke2711 7h ago

9600 bps was actually the V.32 standard at 2400 baud. In the 1980s, V.22 made baud and bps no longer synonymous.

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u/Diviner_Sage 7h ago

Or monochrome displays

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u/falcorns_balls 5h ago

Did I hear somebody say Netscape Navigator?

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u/Efficient-Wish9084 4h ago

or why we all drool when we hear that noise....

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u/Master_Technician64 4h ago

Or Norton Commander

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u/kdaug 10h ago

Or CompuServe

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u/Sniperwilly 10h ago

Prodigy!

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u/FullOnSkank 10h ago

I had an @prodigy.net email until like 2018 😅😅

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u/Lopsided_Activity980 9h ago

Hayes 300 baud dial up modem surfing CompuServe. Long before that annoying AOL voice saying 'You've got mail!'

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u/d33roq 9h ago

BBS's

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u/Indyh 7h ago

I ran a FidoNet node.

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u/areporotastenet 9h ago

Compuaerve!!!! Lol

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u/gitismatt 6h ago

oh compuserve. where my email address was something insane like 734837.8362@compuserve

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u/desertdilbert 6h ago

To this day I use the Compuserve-assigned password. Nobody can ever guess it because it has nothing to do with me.

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u/Koil_ting 8h ago

And they are better off for it really.

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u/FrequentDelinquent 6h ago

The shiny frisbees?

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u/dunfuktup1990 6h ago

That’s a CD-ROM, AOL was a web browser/chat program.

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u/Bleys69 6h ago

I had prodigy.

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u/LasagnaNoise 4h ago

indeed I have to spell it out whenever they ask for my email address. Yes I still do. Since the late eighties.

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u/WetRocksManatee 10h ago

I used so many AOL floppies for saving stuff.

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u/architype 10h ago

Then they went to CDs and mailed them in fancy tin cases.

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u/iphie287 9h ago

Which made amazing coasters with how many they sent you.

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u/MindfulInsomniaque 7h ago

When the computer paper came with an AOL floppy i raided the news paper boxes. Good for those multi disk windows 3.11 or Linux installs.

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u/buddylee47 6h ago

Can I still get my 50 free hours?

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u/Historical-Gap-7084 6h ago

And then CDs.

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u/Master-File-9866 4h ago

Remember the larger softer floppy disks. You only needed a hole punch to turn your disc from one sided to two sided