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'How I Met Your Motherboard' Collects Computer Memories, Geeky Photos

by Terrence O'Brien on April 29, 2010 at 06:30 AM

How I met Your Motherboard Collects Computer Memories
As you probably know, computers were once solely the purview of nerds. Those with pocket protectors, glasses, and very few friends spent the '80s sitting in front of bulky beige boxes named PC Jr. or Apple II. 'How I Met Your Motherboard' celebrates those heady days by collecting stories and photos of people's earliest computing memories. The tales collected speak of love affairs started with now defunct systems, like the ZX Spectrum, and wax nostalgic about the days of DOS prompts and hours spent programing in Basic. A few of us here at Switched have fond memories of swapping out 5 1/4-inch floppy discs to play 'Kings Quest', and of cutting our coding teeth in MS-Basic.

The blog is even designed to look like a series of windows from the monochrome days of Apple OS, which just warms our geeky hearts. Hit up the source link to check out the site, and consider submitting your own memories by clicking on the "Your Computer Stories" link in the right-hand navigation bar. [From: How I Met Your Motherboard]

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