One of the beauties of being technically adept, and a sucker for storing everything that can be, is that unmanageable amounts of backups taken every time the hard drive is formatted accumulate in the obscure sectors of the said drive over time in otherwise organized folders called Backup – yearmonthdate (like Backup – 20020506).
Wow, that was a big sentence. Breathe!
So, here I am, fresh from the nostalgia. What nostalgia, you ask? Well, just for fun, I decided to wade through the much and figure out what lurked in those gigabytes of backup folders… And guess what? Long lost stuff, which wasn’t really needed, but still exists for reasons beyond explanation, my desktops at the time of formatting, preserved as fresh, my customizations, my shortcuts, my macros, and a whole lot of stuff which for some reason was never recalled into their proper folders once the format was complete.
Some stuff that really made me wait and read / see:
Photographs, taken using a very standard film camera and scanned, circa 2003: My school farewell, my first college photographs, my first traditional day in college, photos taken when I was about two feet high, and what not. People looked a lot different, sometimes even in the pictures from 2002! I even found a pic of mine with a proper moustache, when I had one… Yes, it looks kinda horrible!
Mailing lists for mass-mailers during Diwali, Christmas, Dussera, New Year’s and even Valentines!
My C/C++ programs over the years.
Saved games from the yesteryears! Including but not limited to SimCity, Harry Potter, Zeus, Age of Empires, Doom…
PDFs on stupid stuff.
A small cache of MIDIs and WAVs, painstakingly downloaded over stupid internet connections that were more finicky than the girl presenting herself at a coming of age ceremony.
Some very old mails and chat transcripts. Damn, I used to write soooooo differently.
A virus.
And much much more… Stuff that probably will be classified as unmentionables.
Well, I am very deep down the memory lane now. This is beautiful.
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I case you are wondering why there were no updates for the past few days:
Submissions. All done. Except for the elective: OOAD.
AoE3. Finally! Maybe will talk about it in a separate post. Maybe not. But get it. No RTS player should miss it. Slightly disappointing though.
