Gergely "Bane of the Crawlers" Nagy
@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Today, to avoid doing things I am supposed to do, I started to unpack boxes that have been sitting in my room ever since we moved in ~6 years ago, into a cupboard we bought at a sale for ~€10 some two years ago.

In the process, I found a set of #Debian playing cards from #DebConf11, I think. Oh dear, the memories.
Gergely "Bane of the Crawlers" Nagy
@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Other notable finds:

  • My first ever hand-written letter, addressed to my grandparents, dated summer of 1991. My handwriting there is unrecognizable, it is nothing like my handwriting today.
  • Casette tapes of music I wrote around 1994-1996, before Win95 ate my hard disk. While I could recover most of the lost data two decades later, some of this music only exist on these two tapes.
  • The first ever CD I bought with my own money (Wet Wet Wet's End of Part One: Their Greatest Hits, from 1993)
  • One of my best homeworks ever: a two page essay, handwritten on two pieces of A4 paper, in small letters. It's six sentences, 4 of them on the first 3 lines of the essay, and a final 4-word sentence at the end. The rest of it is a single sentence. I got the highest marks for it, under the condition that I read it aloud for the class. I did.
Gergely "Bane of the Crawlers" Nagy
@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Also found some less notable, but nevertheless, equally fun things:

  • My USB Pet Rock.
  • An official Ubuntu 4.10 CD.
  • Self-burned CD from around 2003, labelled "Debian unstable, disc 3" (I have no clue where other discs are, or why I even burned disc 3 of unstable).
  • Assorted keyswitch testers.
  • A book about C16/Plus+4 assembly programming.
Gergely "Bane of the Crawlers" Nagy
@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

This sent me down a path of nostalgia, so I'm now bingeing my 90's favourites (except the ones I usually listen to anyway). So there's a whole lot of Wet Wet Wet, Erasure, Savage Garden, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bronski Beat and others on the playlist.

Oh dear. I sometimes miss the 90s, when I thought my teenage angst was the worst thing in the world.