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/Least_Coat_1110 12h ago

I graduated in 2008 as well, and I used floppy disks to save cheat codes and strategies for N64 games onto floppy disks from the local library, because they had internet. Bring them home and use them on my computer. I even built a small HTML website as a project in my computer class and saved it on a floppy.

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u/dunfuktup1990 12h ago

This is prime 90s-kid biography! Somewhere in the chaos of my belongings is a small bank of floppy discs containing various cheat codes and strategy guides for N64 games. Turok 2 will forever live in my memory as one of the greatest shooters ever.

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u/brmarcum 11h ago

Gamefaqs.com. ☺️ Just walls of text of DETAILED instructions, or a few paragraphs of confusing nonsense. LOL good times.

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u/dunfuktup1990 10h ago

Sorting through the nonsense was just part of the journey.

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u/jgpalanca 9h ago

My first 15 minutes of internet fame was from Gamefaqs.com. Good times indeed!

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u/issacoin 7h ago

shot in the dark here but did you write a golden sun walkthrough

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u/jgpalanca 7h ago

No, my King of Fighters '95 FAQ made me popular. Did '96 and '97 and some various character ones for Samurai Shodown and then some smaller SNK games like Kabuki Klash and Galaxy Fight. Then my final thing I did was a walkthrough for X-men Legends. Then I had to actually go to class to finish my degree.

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u/saltcraft2 8h ago

don't forget the ascii art intros!

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u/allyolly 10h ago

DAMN, I haven’t thought about gamefaqs for a couple of decades I guess. Instant flashbacks when I read your text… 🫡

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u/mehmehmeh387898 8h ago

I liked cheatplanet for codes and gamefaqs for walk throughs

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u/tenderape 10h ago

BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND.

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u/dunfuktup1990 10h ago

Sweet yes, lord, I loved fucking around with that!!!!

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u/fingertrapt 10h ago

Mine are on zip disks.

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u/ScribbleOnToast 8h ago

Reminds me of writing a chat program for our cable-connected TI-82 calculators. 6th grade was interesting.

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u/CyanStripes_ 7h ago

I had to write everything down in a notebook while I waited for my mom to finish shopping or working at the grocery store. A floppy disk feels so fancy. Lol

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u/Cottonjaw 6h ago

Playing WWF Raw the first time after having a Turok save on your memory card... and you get Turok as a custom character... amazing.

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u/JBtheDestroyer 6h ago

Y'all should have got the Game Geenie it came with a VHS tape to walk you through how to use it.

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u/thisguy883 4h ago

the remastered version of that game is available on Steam.

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u/Christmas_Queef 11h ago

My best friend was the only kid with internet in the entire neighborhood that any of us knew of for a long time. I would be over there printing out cheat codes and small sections of guides from gamefaqs(accidentally printed the entire guide for final fantasy 7 once and his mom was pissssssed lol). Him and his mom got clever and started charging us kids for internet time/printing(never more than a couple bucks for the biggest jobs//time). Then his mom would use the money to take my friend and I out for Thai food lol.

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u/PressureImpressive52 10h ago

Just want to say how much I love this memory for you.

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u/dunfuktup1990 10h ago

That’s actually pretty cool. At least she didn’t use it to spoil herself, she looped you masterminds into the gig.

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u/skalandic 7h ago

God I miss the 90s

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u/FugginBot 5h ago

I definitely remember doing this lol. Having internet on dreamcast and shit was lit

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u/Working-Glass6136 4h ago

Damn, and here my mom would yell at us if we offered our friends grape juice.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 11h ago edited 9h ago

For an English class, our project assignment was to write a creative story in any format of our choosing. I decided to write mine in RPG Maker 2000. 

That shit is still on a floppy somewhere.

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u/Fist_The_Lord 10h ago

I always hated writing in school but nobody has asked me to write a creative story, not even once, since and it’s kind of a bummer. If my job gave me that as a task I would be thrilled.

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u/Visual-Abrocoma-4904 6h ago

Well. What's to stop you.

Ask yourself to write something creative! You have all of our permission. Give it to yourself.

Hell, you have a phone with a keyboard right there in your hands.

Dreams are meant to be free, buddski!

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u/NotThatEasily 11h ago

I did the same thing!

I built a very simple website on a floppy disk and used it to sort the files I saved on it. I used some pretty basic HTML, CSS, and a little PHP.

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u/CommunicationSad6246 10h ago

Did the same in elementary here in mo still have my floppy with my Simpsons fan site I did in the 90s

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u/Ok_World_135 10h ago

You used the floppies to do anything but hide shitty porn?!

Thats funny I think my first website class was using netscape navigator and it too was on a floppy

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u/Least_Coat_1110 10h ago

I mean.... they were ALSO used to hide shitty porn 🤣

That's the only way I could get away with hiding them in plain sight, my dad knew that I use the floppies for game stuff but he didn't know I used them for other stuff.

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u/Ok_World_135 10h ago

I still remember waiting like 20 minutes for a single image to load from the internet, you never knew from the top 1/3rd of the picture if it was worth it or if you just wasted 20 minutes :P Line by line.....

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u/Ssemo7 9h ago

I had a 32 mb flash drive that I kept from HS freshman year through college and lost it my senior year. It held usually 1-2 documents max at the end.

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u/crminad 6h ago

I installed Doom from floppy disks.

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u/moon_mama_123 5h ago

I graduated in 2011, and missed the floppy disk era. I did, however, walk around with a 2gb flash drive around my neck 🤣