• Bags@piefed.social
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    11 days ago

    I wish that I could have had the foresight to practice proper data hygiene and backup procedures when I was like 8 so that my brother and I could look at all our old creations.

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      11 days ago

      I did! But it wasn’t because of good planning. It was because of autism and the inability to delete anything.

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        11 days ago

        I “programmed” a massive choose-your-own adventure game in powerpoint by using slide links on buttons, and I really wish I could recover that, too… I distinctly remember there being a path where you could be eaten by a banjo.

        It’d be one thing if I could maybe go scrounging through my parents basement to find my old PC and image the hdd, but I was such a notorious tinkerer, I was swapping PC parts around constantly and installing a new flavor of linux like every 2 months, so everything is well and clearly wiped many times over.

        Even now that I have gotten into photography, looking back, my parents got me a crappy little digital camera in like 2001, and I really wish I could look back at those photos. They never got uploaded anywhere and who knows where they went.