Yes

That was stupid, posting your license key. Now I can use it too, thanks.

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

I'm this old

I had the same key on my XP disc.

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.

This is the internet. You can say "fuck GW", it's fine

The key that's so commonly used, it's in Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing

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.

This is the oldest I currently have pictures of.

SP2 enters the chat........

Sup peeps. I'm stable af.

I've seen far more copies like this than original XP discs. It was the style at that time!

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

I can smell this photo

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.

My dude, you shouldn't post the key in open 🫣

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.

that is so cute.. less than 1gb

missed that day

Not exactly Workbench 1.3 disk 1 is it?

Thx for the key shithead

Please. You're talking to a man here who ripped his entire CD collection into iTunes ... and then backed his library up on 1.44 MB floppies.

Older than this. I stopped before XP.

Does it count that I am 20 and have spindles of blank old CD/DVD?

MF, i had the same, same disc, same key lmao

My PC didn't support boot from CD, so I had to use about 6 WinXP floppies just to load the necessary drives to install from the CD. Good times

I think we also had the Win 95 and 98 installallers somewhere although I learned how to do it when upgrading from 98 to ME

I'm worried about a bunch of 3.5" floppies I have that I used to store a bunch of personal documents and journal writing from high school.

I haven't seen any of these documents for years because it's been a long time since I had a system with a floppy drive.

Well, I should have Magic User Interface CD for Amiga 3.1 in somewhere. Didn’t find it right now.

I’ll take my huge stack of Windows 3.1 floppies and see myself out.

laughs in C64 BASIC

I can remember installing Windows 95 with floppy disks, that was slow. XP was great because you could finally do minor things and it not require a reboot.

The fact I recognise that key.

(Also my husband agrees with me that looks eerily like my handwriting and is the kind of disk i used OP are you in Australia...)

Me: This, but Office 2000.

At least 35. Maybe closer to 40.

I actually had a Windows 98 CD at one point. Copied/ pitated, of course. The keys that I had were kinda stolen from the IT department that I was working for, at the time.

Only kinda stolen. The company was required to have a ridiculous amount of OEM keys. There were only 200 people working at CR back then, that needed Windows 98 rather than Windows NT, and of course there were the 8 Linux/Unix guys that IT mostly ignored, except for their connection to the intranet.

IT could buy 100 keys, or 250 keys. There was no option to buy two groups of 100 keys back in 1998. So we had about 56 keys just laying around that a few of us in IT just kinda took. We also took a total of 300 Windows NT licences, but I kinda doubt that any of managed to even give away a license of WNT.

Leaked an installation key? Microsoft is gonna send a helicopter to raid you....

I memorized that key from pure usage. Good times.

No.

I memorised this key, mainly due to LAN parties, since someone would always have some issue that needed them to reinstall Wndows. To this day i can recite it in full at any time. Also my library card number from when i was 12 (in case i forgot my card at home).

Not real. The Bs and 8s are clearly different.

Is the implication that this was for someone who was a kid growing up then? Or just that this was a prominent memory of an older teen? Something else?

Press play, FF, together. Count the gaps.

Somehow upgrading from MS-DOS 3.30 to 5.0 was alright, but 6.22 seemed like a lot of clutter. QEMM386 was the shit. My 8088 got the coprocessor upgrade at some point I'm Geoworks old. With the C64 on the side

I was so good and so careful with my printing when I had to write cd keys down. Nothing like burning something off of your summer vacation friend and then having them go back to the city and you're off by... something.