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I am old. I remember when pricewatch.com and tigerdirect.com existed. You wanted to build a PC, you were picking parts manually uphill both ways while wearing an onion on your belt.

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Darn kids these days with their PC Part Pickers putting their builds in a tidy list.

Back in my day, you went to Babagge’s, CompUSA, Fry’s, or the local small PC builder shop, and hope they had some decent parts in stock.

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8 points

Microcenter. They were always very well stocked. Well at least most of the time.

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I love Micro Center. I wish they’d expand or offer online ordering and shipping.

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I’ve never had one near me

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7 points

They used to print PC part catalogs… you know, on paper

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Wait, what does the onion do in this scenario? That seems oddly specific.

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It was the style at the time.

It’s a reference to The Simpsons.

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I planned a build 2-3 times but never pulled the trigger. What I had for school was always “good enough” but I enjoyed the planning process.

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