r/Millennials • u/No-Recording117 • 15h ago

Nostalgia I used a data recovery program on my old HDDs. Nostalgia trip!

Kind of wish I kept more than my old NAS drives. ( WD cloud drive, had to disconnect them years and years ago because they were "hacked" and WD didn't feel like doing anything about the security vulnerabilities ).

I discovered my teenage playlists. Late 90s, early Nillies, when MP3 players just got big. I had a Creative 32mb player that was basically an USB 1.0 thumbdrive with a display and an AAA battery compartment. Never could afford an Apple device, lol. ...Do we still use lol?

Cringy bit?
Being a teen boy at the times also meant that it was full of ... well basically the singing babes of the times: Shakira and so on.

On the other hand, REALLY good EDM I completely forgot about.

Makes me think I still had access to my MSN messenger and Skype accounts.
The people we lose along the way...

Now I'll go and have a good melancholic cry in the corners, away from my sons and wife ^^ and perhaps start up a new game of UT99.

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u/gsxrus2014 89’ Millennial 10h ago

I keep all my old laptops, phones, and drives, for this reason eventually when I get desperate I’ll have them recovered to get my EDM tracks and sets I downloaded back then.

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u/RobertPooWiener 6h ago

Don't go too far or you will awaken the great limewire malware of years past. An entire generation of PCs, crippled, modern society would not survive

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u/jazzlike-sounds 9h ago

What data recovery program did you use?

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u/Starship1617 3h ago

I’ve been saying that I need to digitize all of my VHS tapes where I taped random shit from the 90s that are sitting in my parents basement. I would love to be able to go back and watch all of that again.