Haunted by a lack of young voter support, Hillary advertises on the AOL login screen

boing
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I doubt the eight inch variety were called macrofloppies through.

Probably a reference to mainframes being large room filling 32 bit computers, and minicomputers being cabinet sized 16 bit computers, and microcomputers being 8 bit toys.

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So youā€™re disappointed in Boing Boing?

How dare you!

BoingBoing can never disappoint. It can only be disappointed by insufficiently grateful commenters.

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Nah, they were just called ā€œ8-inch floppiesā€ā€¦and the term stuck, no matter how small or rigid the format became!

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Our first home computer loaded its OS from one 5.25" floppy drive, and used the second drive for data. I donā€™t recall ever losing any data, though the computer crashed a couple of times in the nine or ten years we used it.

(The next computer ran Windows. And there, dear reader, is where our problems started.)

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Our first computer ran on custom built machine code I had to write using only zeroes.

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zeroes? lucky you. I had to use one before we even knew about this number.

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OK, it was worth waking up after only 5 hours sleep, now that Iā€™ve gotten to read this!

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hat tip

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Yeah, Hillary will get those twenty-two votes from hipsters who will only go to the polls because theyā€™ll need to Instagram their vote for Clinton in order to garner the lulz.

Sarcastically, of course.

ā€œHere I am voting for Hillary Clinton. OMG, Iā€™ve become my own grandmother!ā€

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