Wordie: From the Vault: Comments

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:29:47 +0000

Ouch. Those things hurt. And they always seemed to have been made of some carcinogenic material.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:53:48 +0000

Yes! That was the floppiest part! I also had a bad habit of bouncing mouse trackballs around the house.

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:57:17 +0000

Did you ever take the little disc out of the floppy and play with it? That was fun, but oh-so-against the rules...

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:00:52 +0000

Right! They had a latch to keep them from escaping! Ah, the memories....

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:18:51 +0000

I had more fun playing with the little latch on the floppy drive door, than the floppy itself. Later I would take a liking to spinning CDs around my index finger.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:53:43 +0000

Oh yeah, they were floppy. And if you flopped them too much, they retaliated by not ever working again.

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:01:15 +0000

They totally flopped!

More of a flap, really. I remember twiddling with them a lot.

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:43:39 +0000

In the future, there will be a web site for doing every possible exact task.

Oh wait...

Comment by jennarenn, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:43:12 +0000

Floppies!!! Did the 5" ones actually flop? I don't quite remember....

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:31:53 +0000

What?? Handwriting? How quaint.

Comment by oroboros, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:34:51 +0000

I had to transfer all mine off of an actual notepad! :o)

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:40:19 +0000

Love it. A pre-Wordie Wordie list. Makes you want to go back and dig through that old pile of floppies....

No, not really.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:18:46 +0000

The "date modified" on the file was February 2005. I wish I remembered the origins of this list, all I know for sure is that I compiled myself it for fun back in college. Who knew there would one day be a web site for doing exactly that (only better)?