Archive 1996 Best Buy Ad

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I Wear Pants

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Sep 26, 2011 10:36pm

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

Posts: 7,349

Sep 26, 2011 10:38pm

Completely forgot about Encarta and Microsoft BOB.

Wow!

justincredible

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Sep 26, 2011 10:45pm

I Wear Pants;912446 wrote:Those weren't drug deals...

How dare you.

chicago510

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Sep 26, 2011 11:26pm

sherm03;912447 wrote:Completely forgot about Encarta

Then Wikipedia made encyclopedias obsolete.

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WebFire

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Sep 26, 2011 11:39pm

chicago510;912524 wrote:Then Wikipedia made encyclopedias obsolete.

I think the internet in general did that before Wiki ever came along.

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I Wear Pants

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Sep 26, 2011 11:53pm

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

Posts: 5,728

Sep 26, 2011 11:58pm

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

Posts: 14,994

Sep 27, 2011 12:04am

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.

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gut

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Sep 27, 2011 12:54am

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

Posts: 14,994

Sep 27, 2011 2:08am

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 ...

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jmog

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Sep 27, 2011 1:46pm

I like the add for the Zach Morris cell phones

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bo shemmy3337

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Sep 30, 2011 2:05am

the prices are relatively the same lol.