That was stupid, posting your license key. Now I can use it too, thanks.
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Another commenter posted, you can just get it from Wikipedia
Its been blacklisted by Microsoft for 20 years
Fucking Microsoft! Always ruining my plans!
I think that's the same key I had memorized when I worked for a sketchy PC repair place as a teen.
Typing CD keys was such a feeling when it was for a brand new game you can't wait to play, pure despair if you mistyped something and it didn't accept but then you corrected the error, biggest sense of relief of my childhood
My first typing was a game into C64 using machine code. Game magazines at that time dedicated a few pages with lines of hex numbers for games. After typing 4 pages you had a game.
Unfortunately, I‘ve got my data tape recorder two month later for xmas. And mom was nervous about keeping the power on for days. I entered those numbers quite some times. Load„*“,8,1
That's some hardcore 'cd key' typing lol
The joy of typing binary from a magazine into a hex editor :) we did it as two people, one reading, one typing, but I believe we only ever completed one of the smaller listings.
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I'm this old
I remember when I first saw floppies and how amazing it was to load things instantly instead of waiting minutes for a game to load from a cassette tape.
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ahh yes, the good old bunch of games on a disk. my grandpa went so hard that he had a printed catalog of which games were on which number-stickered disk
This is so old, so old that Memorex is where my dad worked back in the day. I'm also old. Goddamnit.
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I had the same key on my XP disc.
What the hell? That’s the same combination as my luggage!
That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
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How do you know my WiFi password???
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This is the internet. You can say "fuck GW", it's fine
I think people say "fuck Games Workshop" even on reddit
Finally, now I don't need to have to call a number to get my XP activated, I can just use this.
For those not in the know, XP's activation requirements are so harsh that your computer just gets disabled completely after the 30 day grace period if you don't activate at all. I live in a place where people really don't tend to buy operating systems, so this was a gigantic letdown.
You know what? Fuck Windows XP. There. I said it. And I'm taking the downvotes without remorse.
Ahhh, the good old copy of windows xp that was stolen from Microsoft a month before release and spread it's beautiful self all around the world, I had that code memorised for a long while, I called it the fuck code.
Floppy disk with Win 3.11
Yes, I have also installed windows from a very small stack of floppies. Windows 3.1
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I remember a photo of a guy holding the burned XP CD while he's standing at the front entrance of Microsoft. Pretty cool
At one point in my life I had the XP VLK for my university memorized. Now all I remember is the end: BGDBB.
Hey, that's MY activation key!
I can smell this photo
Ah yes, the ozone-plastic top notes with an undertone of Doritos and Mt. Dew. And is that a slight hint of cheap beer?
My dude, you shouldn't post the key in open 🫣
I've seen far more copies like this than original XP discs. It was the style at that time!
I’m trying to get my 89 year old dad to set aside the tapes of the first games I programmed on our Commodore 64 in like 1983 when he moves this year. I really want them.
Early mud stuff. I’ll post it if he finds it.
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Unethical life pro trip. If you are installing windows xp through 7 and need a license key, just search on eBay for "Laptop Parts Only" and find an auction where someone was nice enough to post one.
I remember reading a conspiracy theory that this key was purposely put in by a liberal employee who believed everything should be free and that’s why the first 5 digits are FCKGW - fuck George w - and that it was the volume license for Lockheed Martin or something
It’s not true but interestingly this key was leaked before windows xp even came out, like a month before, and it’s suspected to be a VLK from dell
Nowadays they’d probably say leftist
Should have left "Win XP" out. We know FCKGW. ☺️
I was thinking the album yes fragile. Check it out on on youtube. The song roundabout if nothing else.
The kids have heard that one, it's the credits song on season 1 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventures.
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that is so cute.. less than 1gb
missed that day
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