PS- Don’t try to activate windows using the product keys.
I hid mine 
My origin story.
Ha!
Okay so to keep things fair, I’ve limited this to stuff that I purchased 20 years ago AND intentionally kept safe over the years. So no recent nostalgia purchases or stuff that I forgot about under my mother’s bed.
That’s a Virgin Webplayer, an internet appliance from 1999. After the bios password was found out, I bought at least four of them between 2000 and 2002, and I still have two of them today. I used them as internet radio stations, listening to podcasts up until around 2008, when the screen finally died. Got a mini-PCI wifi card for them too, it’s around here somewhere. One of these days, I’ll make a homage to these useful devices with an ipad screen and a mini pc. This is also where the my love of single-purpose computers truly became a thing of its own. Before this, I was hoarding 386s and other junk.
All of those discs laid flat are from the greatest gaming series ever, Command & Conquer. I was a patient gamer, I played through the demo version of the first Command & Conquer for an entire year until the game dropped to a price where I could afford it. Same with Tiberian Sun, I bought it after Firestorm came out and ebgames.com had it for under $20. When I finally got it, I spent two weeks playing it non-stop and was forced to repeat an entire semester of med school.
Then there’s Quake III Arena. It took two weeks of downloading an hour a day on dialup just to get the demo version from cnet’s download.com. Then about a year later, I found the full version on sale at a book store of all places. It was an absolutely thrilling game.
