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Pentium 3 in a crusty Compaq with a 5.25" bigfoot hard drive.

Those were the days

I still have both the screensaver and the moment that I realized that disabling the screensaver allowed processing to happen meaningfully quicker burned into my mind.

I was running my K6-2 and I was _convinced_ it was superior to equivalent Intel CPUs.

Spent hours watching the graph hoping to get triplets and some kind of confirmation that I just found ET.

Miss those days so much.

Same. Although with the curse of hindsight, I painfully recall choosing to run SETI@home instead of "mining" some weird digital currency called Bitcoin back in 2010. So, painful.

Exactly the same here. Ran SETI@home on all my machines back in the day. I remember running this weird bitcoin ‘thing’ for an entire week on my main machine which generated around 1.4 btc. Then I DELETED it.

Tell me about it. When Brave started the whole BAT thing 8 years ago, I had a wallet with $25 in it.

Lost access to it but today that wallet would be worth over $10.

And today that wallet would be worth $6. But tomorrow it could be worth $8.

It's optimism like this that keeps me in the market.