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1996 Best Buy Ad

  • I Wear Pants
    justincredible;912429 wrote:Yep, mom had one in her car at one point. It was mostly used for drug deals.
    Those weren't drug deals...
  • sherm03
    Completely forgot about Encarta and Microsoft BOB.

    Wow!
  • justincredible
    I Wear Pants;912446 wrote:Those weren't drug deals...
    How dare you.
  • chicago510
    sherm03;912447 wrote:Completely forgot about Encarta
    Then Wikipedia made encyclopedias obsolete.
  • WebFire
    chicago510;912524 wrote:Then Wikipedia made encyclopedias obsolete.
    I think the internet in general did that before Wiki ever came along.
  • I Wear Pants
    WebFire;912557 wrote:I think the internet in general did that before Wiki ever came along.
    The internet in general was putting encyclopedias into a hospice. Wikipedia dropped a fucking nuke on them.
  • chicago510
    WebFire;912557 wrote:I think the internet in general did that before Wiki ever came along.
    True, but some dude's Geocities page wasn't always reliable for stuff. Wikipedia put all the info in one place better than anyone ever has.
  • O-Trap
    gorocks99;911920 wrote:166MHz Packard Bell with 16 MB of RAM, a 2 GB hard drive AND a built in 28.8k modem for just $2000? What a deal!

    http://gregarious24.imgur.com/best_buy_flyer_september_1996

    "Buy a Mac."
    chicago510;912090 wrote:Windows 95...GOAT operating system upgrade? Everything before that sucked.


    That looks like my VPS desktop.
    justincredible;912167 wrote:Windows ME was a horse abortion.

    Reps.
    WebFire;912289 wrote:Windows 3.11 is the first Windows I started on.


    Same here.
    justincredible;912429 wrote:Yep, mom had one in her car at one point. It was mostly used for drug deals.

    And horse abortions.
  • gut
    justincredible;912429 wrote:Yep, mom had one in her car at one point. It was mostly used for drug deals.
    Haha....Back in the day where you had to go two places to get crack and a whore.
  • O-Trap
    gut;912612 wrote:Haha....Back in the day where you had to go two places to get crack and a whore.
    And even a third if you wanted a piece.

    Ahh ... those were the days ...
  • jmog
    I like the add for the Zach Morris cell phones ;)
  • bo shemmy3337
    the prices are relatively the same lol.