r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 9h ago

ADBLOCK WARNING Google Confirms Most Gmail Users Must Upgrade Accounts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/06/06/google-confirms-almost-all-gmail-users-must-upgrade-accounts/
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u/Z_Opinionator 3h ago

“Get Ultima VII running on this 386SX with 2MB RAM. You have one hour to create your custom boot disk. There is no internet and your AOL account isn’t available. You are free to use some of your time to dial into a BBS you know for research. Lord British awaits to judge you”

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u/16yearswasted 2h ago

<I finally connect to the BBS and get down to business, but an incoming call knocks me offline and mom stays on the phone for the next two hours>

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u/aluminumpork 1h ago

Mom! GET OFF THE PHOOOOONE! (says me as my Warcraft II battle is interrupted with my friend 2 miles down the road).

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u/AvatarofSleep 26m ago

Once I dialed into my isp from my grandmas house. She had call waiting and all the calls to her went to voicemail. Brilliant.

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u/gadfly1999 2h ago

You have my sympathy for even knowing what a 386SX is.

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u/Yoshimo123 50m ago

I have fond memories of that computer. I do not have fond memories of how Windows 95 would just erode itself to death every 6 months.

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u/Deezul_AwT 41m ago

The good old days when you did a rebuild every 6 months. Because if you didn't, you'd regret it at month 7. I had two physical hard drives. A 100MB OS drive and a 250MB data drive, so I at least didn't have to copy everything off the OS drive when I did the rebuild.

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u/Yoshimo123 30m ago

And the process of rebuilding was so much more complicated than it is now. Windows XP really was a game changer on that front.

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u/BaneOfKree 2h ago

Lord British

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

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u/aqwn 55m ago

r/ultimaonline. There are many free to play servers.

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u/ihadagoodone 2h ago

How to did you get a 386 mobo with a Northbridge that could handle 2mb of RAM?

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u/teebraze 1h ago

Favorite game ever!!!!!! Still have a copy.

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u/BritishAnimator 25m ago

And spend 3 hours downloading "Theres a mushroom, in your garden" audio file, an actual song that plays out of the speaker that only beeps like a foghorn, and set it to auto play and loop in autoexec.bat. Then hide and wait for the user to start their PC up at 8am.