While I was shifting my house, I remembered that I had some CDs from the days when the Internet was starting to boom. Here is a photo. Pardon the photo quality as I had to use a cell phone camera.
Disks from a bygone era
I saw a CD for the first time in my life in 1995 when I was in Class 7. It took me three more years to actually pop it in, into a friends PC and see what it contained.
The photo below contains three CDs one each from 1995, 1996 and 1997. These are from the Indian IT magazine PC Quest which started distributing CDs every quarter at the time when little was known about computers or CDs in the country.
1. The earliest one is from 1995. It contained fully functional demos of OS/2 Warp and PC DOS 7 neither of which I could try. OS/2 required 30, 1.44 MB, 3.5″ floppy disks or a fresh hard drive to install and I could afford neither at that time. Compare that to the multiple DVDs that pack a single software or a game today.
2. The one in yellow and black is from 1996. It contained Netscape Navigator 3 as the star product along with demos of AutoCAD and 3DS Max and some localized software from India’s CDAC
3. The last one is from 1997. Though I don’t remember what multimedia and graphics it contained, the star attraction is MSIE 4. In about 10 years, IE has only increased by 3 versions (leaving out the IE8 beta)
We have come a long way since then. But nostalgia strikes hard when I look at stuff like this. I even have a couple of 5.25″ floppy disks, but could not get a chance to click a photo of them.
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Wow… what a blast from the past! Do you still have a copy of the games and graphic cd? I’ve been searching high and low on the internet for quite a few years now and this is the first time I’ve seen a picture of the CD. Are you able to upload these somewhere for a download?
Yes I think I should have it. I will try to upload it somewhere. But can only do it next week 🙂
That’ll be awesome. Thanks!
I was not able to make an ISO since this disk is scratched way too much. Is there something in particular you want from the CD? I can try to extract it
Nothing in particular. I was going to look for some old mp3 earworms. I can’t remember if they were a part of this CD. Thanks for trying though!