Yes

- Original copies? WTF? I mean, I had this version too, but I never ever saw the originals my disks were a copy of.
  
  Here in former Yugoslavia, we got one original copy that got distributed to (probably) the whole country. Old times were so fun.
  
  lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
- Now I want to brag with my CPM3.0 floppies for the C128... But parents sold the computer when I wasn't looking :(
  
  :’(

That was stupid, posting your license key. Now I can use it too, thanks.
- Another commenter posted, you can just get it from Wikipedia
  Its been blacklisted by Microsoft for 20 years
  
  Fucking Microsoft! Always ruining my plans!
- I think that's the same key I had memorized when I worked for a sketchy PC repair place as a teen.

Well, I should have Magic User Interface CD for Amiga 3.1 in somewhere. Didn’t find it right now.

Typing CD keys was such a feeling when it was for a brand new game you can't wait to play, pure despair if you mistyped something and it didn't accept but then you corrected the error, biggest sense of relief of my childhood
- My first typing was a game into C64 using machine code. Game magazines at that time dedicated a few pages with lines of hex numbers for games. After typing 4 pages you had a game.
  Unfortunately, I‘ve got my data tape recorder two month later for xmas. And mom was nervous about keeping the power on for days. I entered those numbers quite some times. Load„*“,8,1
  
  That's some hardcore 'cd key' typing lol
  
  The joy of typing binary from a magazine into a hex editor :) we did it as two people, one reading, one typing, but I believe we only ever completed one of the smaller listings.

I'm this old
- I remember when I first saw floppies and how amazing it was to load things instantly instead of waiting minutes for a game to load from a cassette tape.
  
  Lol you rich kids and your cassette drives. I cut my teeth on my friend's VIC-20 which didn't have a hard disk or a tape drive (they were available but my friend's parents couldn't afford one). If we wanted to play a game, we had to type it in in BASIC every time.
- This is so old, so old that Memorex is where my dad worked back in the day. I'm also old. Goddamnit.
  
  Did your dad ever find out if it was real, or if it was Memorex?
  
  If you get old enough everyone's parents used to work for a big tech company. My mother who can barely operate her phone, used to work for a company that manufactured microchips.
- ahh yes, the good old bunch of games on a disk. my grandpa went so hard that he had a printed catalog of which games were on which number-stickered disk
- Holy shit… I’m Pitfall old too. What a shit game.
  
  You shut your pretty little whore mouth! I loved Pitfall!
  .......but also I was 4, and as we all know, kids are stupid.
- LOAD "*",8,1 . I was there, too shakes cane and ruffles grey hairs (It was a wonderful era. The current generation doesn't know what they missed.)
- Non No Falsch Nee
  all of those work in German.
- Fucking Geos man..... I remember doing homework on its word processor...

- I miss when they just sent free CDs.
- Damn, I think I once asked for their version 8 CD, was amazed at it!
  
  i think i had the gutsy CD
  they really did make the linux desktop usable by normies didnt they
- Windows XP is what made me switch to Linux.
  Ubuntu is what made me stick with ANY distro as long as it was not Ubuntu. Most crashy breaky thing ever.
  
  That’s funny, me too! I switched to Mandrake or Mandriva. I liked Ubuntu (Kubuntu specifically), and never had any crash issues, but I wound up going to gNewSense and then Trisquel when those came out.
- what's the license number for Ubuntu?
  
  FCGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-287Q8
  
  Here it is friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfELJU1mRMg

Finally, now I don't need to have to call a number to get my XP activated, I can just use this.
For those not in the know, XP's activation requirements are so harsh that your computer just gets disabled completely after the 30 day grace period if you don't activate at all. I live in a place where people really don't tend to buy operating systems, so this was a gigantic letdown.
You know what? Fuck Windows XP. There. I said it. And I'm taking the downvotes without remorse.
- Fuck Windows XP
  I think it's allowed to hate anti-customer practices and have good memories of an actually somewhat user-friendly OS that just worked for many people in many other regards.
  I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should've been the last Windows.
  So I am not mad at you. You shall be forgiven, and I am even going to turn the other cheek and give you an upvote. It's what Windows XP would've wanted me to do, too, I am sure of it.
  
  Your opinion shall forever be respected.
  
  I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should've been the last Windows.
  Windows 7 was the first and last version that I didn't immediately (and lastingly) despise. Something something stopped clocks etc.

Ahhh, the good old copy of windows xp that was stolen from Microsoft a month before release and spread it's beautiful self all around the world, I had that code memorised for a long while, I called it the fuck code.

I had the same key on my XP disc.
- What the hell? That’s the same combination as my luggage!
  
  That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
  
  How do you know my WiFi password???
- I was thinking the same thing! I swear I've used this key.
  
  You 100% did, it was the most used winxp key out there, it always works until Microsoft fucked it.

This is the internet. You can say "fuck GW", it's fine
- I think people say "fuck Games Workshop" even on reddit
  
  I was thinking “Fuck George W”

This is the oldest I currently have pictures of.

Hey, that's MY activation key!

The fact I recognise that key.
(Also my husband agrees with me that looks eerily like my handwriting and is the kind of disk i used OP are you in Australia...)

I’m trying to get my 89 year old dad to set aside the tapes of the first games I programmed on our Commodore 64 in like 1983 when he moves this year. I really want them.
Early mud stuff. I’ll post it if he finds it.
- If you do post them, let me know. I'll spin up an emulator and give them a try!
  
  I will! Just so you know, I was 12, so I cant vouch for the quality of writing or gameplay, lol.

Should have left "Win XP" out. We know FCKGW. ☺️

Floppy disk with Win 3.11
- Yes, I have also installed windows from a very small stack of floppies. Windows 3.1
  
  Also; You are at a crossroads, there are roads to the north, south and east. There is a dwarf, the dwarf throws an axe at you. The axe misses
  _
- 3.1 was my first OS too. JezzBall and Chip's Challenge went hard.

Unethical life pro trip. If you are installing windows xp through 7 and need a license key, just search on eBay for "Laptop Parts Only" and find an auction where someone was nice enough to post one.

Even still have a copy of 98

I remember a photo of a guy holding the burned XP CD while he's standing at the front entrance of Microsoft. Pretty cool

The key that's so commonly used, it's in Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing

SP2 enters the chat........
Sup peeps. I'm stable af.
- OS/2 enters the chat.
  Eldritch demonic screams in the background
  Pay no attention to the daemons I've had to restrain, please.
- You could write to Microsoft and they would mail you a CD with SP2 on it for free.

I recently cleaned out some boxes of random stuff I had in one of my wardrobes and found several discs like this, some with Ubuntu 5-8.04, random drivers and other fun stuff. Huge nostalgia trip going through them. I also found this CD my dad gave me when I was 20 and had just started smoking weed:

(the title is in Swedish and means "a chill disc")
Sadly lost him in December last year, RIP dad. I normally don't smoke anymore but I'm gonna get a small piece of hash and smoke it while playing this in memory of him.

At one point in my life I had the XP VLK for my university memorized. Now all I remember is the end: BGDBB.

Does it count that I am 20 and have spindles of blank old CD/DVD?
- You have spindles of spindles? That counts, yes.
  
  Fixed.

Not exactly Workbench 1.3 disk 1 is it?
- Came here to post just that :D

I've seen far more copies like this than original XP discs. It was the style at that time!

I can remember installing Windows 95 with floppy disks, that was slow. XP was great because you could finally do minor things and it not require a reboot.
- I still have 46 disks of Office floating around somewhere

Please. You're talking to a man here who ripped his entire CD collection into iTunes ... and then backed his library up on 1.44 MB floppies.
- I have certain programs that were ripped from my father's 7.5" floppies. They have gone through 3.5" floppies, to CDs, to thumb drives.
  The Data shall Remain.
  
  If it is on a thumb drive then probably not lol, these things are more fragile than a Redditor

This old.
Almost had this memorized but had a friend I could call who had done so.

My dude, you shouldn't post the key in open 🫣

I was thinking the album yes fragile. Check it out on on youtube. The song roundabout if nothing else.
- The kids have heard that one, it's the credits song on season 1 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventures.
- Rick Beato thinks it's great too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFisOTDzGuE

I can smell this photo
- Ah yes, the ozone-plastic top notes with an undertone of Doritos and Mt. Dew. And is that a slight hint of cheap beer?

- And how many of them are scratched to death?
  
  This was taken a few years back. They are all ona USB drive now.

I remember reading a conspiracy theory that this key was purposely put in by a liberal employee who believed everything should be free and that’s why the first 5 digits are FCKGW - fuck George w - and that it was the volume license for Lockheed Martin or something
It’s not true but interestingly this key was leaked before windows xp even came out, like a month before, and it’s suspected to be a VLK from dell
Nowadays they’d probably say leftist

My PC didn't support boot from CD, so I had to use about 6 WinXP floppies just to load the necessary drives to install from the CD. Good times
I think we also had the Win 95 and 98 installallers somewhere although I learned how to do it when upgrading from 98 to ME

Older than this. I stopped before XP.
- How do you stop, please teach me master.
  
  I installed Ubuntu, and never looked back. I'd recommend trying it, and I hope it fits you too.

Real Gs had Windows XP Black Edition burned to a CD. This appears to be vanilla XP.

Ama bout to score me a free copy of XP 😏

that is so cute.. less than 1gb
missed that day

J3QQ4-...
I don't remember if that was from XP or 98...
- 98

I memorized that key from pure usage. Good times.
- Oh wow you just reminded me I did too at one point. Wild to think back on that part of my life, I've barely touched windows in over 10 years but man at one point so much of my brain was filled with windows related junk

MF, i had the same, same disc, same key lmao

I'm worried about a bunch of 3.5" floppies I have that I used to store a bunch of personal documents and journal writing from high school.
I haven't seen any of these documents for years because it's been a long time since I had a system with a floppy drive.
- Maybe it's time you switched over to ZIP drive?
  It's like a floppy disk but the next big thing.
- USB floppy drives aren't expensive.
  
  It's also just laziness and time on my part. I have a couple of ancient systems in my basement that I haven't started in years that I think still have a floppy drive but it would take work for me to start up and sort out, then figure out how to transfer everything over.
  And I haven't motivated myself for that considering it would all be for about 10MB of data?
  It's amazing when you think about it. Thirty years when I made those floppies, it was like gold and I felt like I was holding an immense amount of data in a 1.5 MB floppy disk. And it wasn't easy to move the data around and it took an obvious amount of time to see the data being transferred.
  Now we snap a photo with an average smartphone to generate a 20 megapixel image onto a 4 MB file in the blink of an eye .... every day ... all the time ... hundreds, thousands of times without any effort at all.

I actually had a Windows 98 CD at one point. Copied/ pitated, of course. The keys that I had were kinda stolen from the IT department that I was working for, at the time.
Only kinda stolen. The company was required to have a ridiculous amount of OEM keys. There were only 200 people working at CR back then, that needed Windows 98 rather than Windows NT, and of course there were the 8 Linux/Unix guys that IT mostly ignored, except for their connection to the intranet.
IT could buy 100 keys, or 250 keys. There was no option to buy two groups of 100 keys back in 1998. So we had about 56 keys just laying around that a few of us in IT just kinda took. We also took a total of 300 Windows NT licences, but I kinda doubt that any of managed to even give away a license of WNT.

laughs in C64 BASIC

At least 35. Maybe closer to 40.
- I was going to disagree with you because I had a copy of Windows XP on the disc in my drawer, but then I remembered that I am 35 so thanks for that.

I memorised this key, mainly due to LAN parties, since someone would always have some issue that needed them to reinstall Wndows. To this day i can recite it in full at any time. Also my library card number from when i was 12 (in case i forgot my card at home).

No.

I’ll take my huge stack of Windows 3.1 floppies and see myself out.
- Windows 3.1 was only like 7 disks.
  The giant pile of floppies was Windows 95, at more than 100. And the Windows 98 upgrade CD. would ask for a random one several times during a clean install, so we had those things for a while.
  As for showing my actual age, when I was a kid my dad bought an Amstrad PC1512, a mostly DOS machine with two 5.25" floppy drives and no hard drive.

Leaked an installation key? Microsoft is gonna send a helicopter to raid you....

before this one, I had a Windows 2000 Professional one with the local education department's VL key

Me: This, but Office 2000.

Oh...

Press play, FF, together. Count the gaps.

I was so good and so careful with my printing when I had to write cd keys down. Nothing like burning something off of your summer vacation friend and then having them go back to the city and you're off by... something.