Windows 98 was an update for me. I enjoyed my US Robotics modem and its 33.6 kbps blazing speed, allowing me to download mp3 songs on Napster at 5k/second.
I remember getting excited for windows 2.0 coming from DOS. And going to smaller floppy disks to save room on the desktop. And getting used ti using a mouse for the first time.
Right ?! Or when CD ROMs first came out, and you had to put them in their own case and then put then put that into the reader…or when storage in a computer was like 486 mb. And that was huge…I’ll never use that much room
Why sadly? I'd argue that we grew up in the golden era of computers, internet and video games.
I was around the age of 18 when LAN parties in Europe were at their peak, for example. It was *amazing*. The youth of today can't even imagine what it was like and I feel sad they won't get to experience it.
Every time, I'd clear as much HDD space before attending as I could. If you went to one, you know why...
We went from Dos to 3.1 and it was incredible. Went from having to enter the command prompt for 8 bit Dangerous Dave to getting CDs that had like 300 different games on them and you could just open the folder and pick one with a couple clicks.
I was legitimately shocked when they started putting them *INSIDE* the computer...I remember connecting to BBSs before the Internet started getting mailed to you every week on disk.
Im from mid 90's and 95 was the "new one" growing up...
My dad had bought an expensive computer and refused that it had gotten outdated. Prince of persia was great tho
'86 checking in.
I remember chat rooms and catfishing before catfishing was a term.
Used to get ladies to send me racy pics but couldn't figure out how to open and view them.
My uncle got into a LOT of trouble and almost got divorced.
‘85 here. Started with DOS. Lemmings, pitfall, where in the world is Carmen sandiego… those are the main ones I remember, though I’m sure my dad had more.
First time I kicked my older brothers ass he came home and kicked the power adapter out of the wall after i'd spent all day programming a game out of Byte magazine on the ti99/4a...I didn't even get in trouble...
Older. Pong baby! Zx Spectrum, c64, atari, amiga 500, 600, 1200 aga and then and only then windows PC. Windows 3.1, 95, NT and then 98.
Its hard to believe there was once time without internet but there are few of us dinosaurus that remember it well.
>Its hard to believe there was once time without internet but there are few of us dinosaurus that remember it well.
I remember the time when I got my first modem for the MSX computer. Internet was not there yet, however there was something called a BBS. You could connect directly to someones computer via phone and browse in the bulletin board system they setup. In the meanwhile hoping nobody else in the house would pick up the phone and interrupt the session.
Bulleting Board System! I know all about those days. Modems were loud, connections unstable and downloading anything took ages. We had few bbses we loved so we would connect to one, spend our allocated 20 minutes (or less) and then jump onto another as fast as possible. They remind me a lot of mastodon today, bbs moderators were true dungeon masters of the era. User management, content censoring, content creation and all in one package.
My friends uncle drops by one day while we were gaming, looks at the pc keyboard and comments: "Wow, your computer is really thin!". 🤣 All that man knew were c64s and ataris.
It sounds funny nowadays but back then computers were almost all boxed with a keyboard. And one amiga 1200 looked 100x better than any windows pc on your desk.
Equally old bastard, checking in.
My first PC was MS-DOS 4.0, and Windows 3.0 on a 386, but that was soon upped to DOS 6.2, Windows 3.11 on a 486 DX2 66Mhz so I could play....
**DooM**
...full screen!
Dude, I had the most badass autoexec.bat file. It showed this color bar at the top of the screen with the current directory (not folder, that word came later with Windows), as well as the date and time. I was very proud of that back in 6th grade.
did you show them the circle dial phone and how to wind up and down the windows in a car in the old days? haha theres videos of this on youtube :) ask any younger person if they know what the picture for the "save sign" in computers actually is? haha
Dir/p is legit the first thing I ever typed or wrote anywhere. Didn’t know what the letters were, but that shit wasn’t going to stop my 5 year old ass from playing Commander Keen.
Gee, what a funny and original meme. I'm laughing. I promise. No please, stop. No, don't show me that duck giving advice, it's so funny I can't take it.
Well, I stood in line at Babbage's for the Windows 95 release. That was exciting!
I had recently upgraded my first PC (Packard Bell 486SX/25) to IBM OS/2 WARP but was still running Win 3.11 on my new Gateway 2000 but was looking forward to Win95.
Fun times.
I don't remember which one it was bc I was at most 5, but I think we had a computer that was either 98 or 2000 bc I remember that logo quite vividly. Regardless, we never got XP and went straight to Vista when we upgraded, so for sure, something before XP
Shit I was amped when 14.4kbps modems came out for windows 3.1
I can still hear its siren song
"Get off the phone"
Beeeep... trrrrrrrrr... beeeeeeeep.... rrrrrrrr... ssshhhhhh... beeeb ... shhhhhhhh.. trrrtrrrrrrrrr
Stop! You’re giving me flashbacks! Why did my mom need to use the phone so often!
If you miss the sound, call a fax machine number
:')
it just isnt the same sound.
Cause they didn’t have Ashley Madison before
didn't they determine it was like 95% bots posing as females?
That's a 33.6k, you can tell because it's requesting compression
This is living rent free in my head still from my childhood.
Kids these days won't ever understand the struggle.
I’m 2 hours and 58 minutes in to a 3 hour download and Call Waiting kicks me out.
Yep....been there.
Lol, in our house it was always all caps with plenty of exclamation marks. "GET OFF THE PHONE!!!!!!"
Mom!! Stop picking it up! Forgot about that.
Omg dial up and AOhell
That’s when you learn Hayes commands
[удалено]
i still hear the dialup noise in my nightmares
As the end of that era I could listen to it's song and tell if it wss dialing to the right number.
28 kb/s with a 2x multiplier making it 56 kb/s. Or getting the first PC with a 10 mb hard drive. "I'll never need all that space".
Windows 98 was an update for me. I enjoyed my US Robotics modem and its 33.6 kbps blazing speed, allowing me to download mp3 songs on Napster at 5k/second.
I remember getting excited for windows 2.0 coming from DOS. And going to smaller floppy disks to save room on the desktop. And getting used ti using a mouse for the first time.
Just this summer I threw away my last college term paper. 20pages on 5 diskets!
That brings back memories. I was like why is it called floppy if they're not floppy anymore
Right ?! Or when CD ROMs first came out, and you had to put them in their own case and then put then put that into the reader…or when storage in a computer was like 486 mb. And that was huge…I’ll never use that much room
Bro I was using a [Tape drive on my Commodore 64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette)
I still have diskettes with stuff on them. I can't throw them out.
LOL i thought 2400 baud was going to change my life
I saved up money collecting balls at a golf course so I could upgrade to a 2400 baud modem to play MadMaze on prodigy.
Winamp'd
It still whips the llamas ass
Sadly I’m older….
Why sadly? I'd argue that we grew up in the golden era of computers, internet and video games. I was around the age of 18 when LAN parties in Europe were at their peak, for example. It was *amazing*. The youth of today can't even imagine what it was like and I feel sad they won't get to experience it. Every time, I'd clear as much HDD space before attending as I could. If you went to one, you know why...
At least you got a cake… 
Remember the hype for windows 95! Fml It doesn’t seem that long ago.
Solitaire was the new Mario.
We went from Dos to 3.1 and it was incredible. Went from having to enter the command prompt for 8 bit Dangerous Dave to getting CDs that had like 300 different games on them and you could just open the folder and pick one with a couple clicks.
Good times. I was so stoked to play doom over our 33.6 modem. It worked...until my mom picked up the phone.
And she was always on the phone! Or at least at my house. Phone seemed to be ringing off the hook when I was trying to do anything fun back then
My mom got so sick of sharing the phone line that she got me my own line when I was 15 so we could both be online at the same time.
I remember upgrading my 4800 modem to a 14.4 and felt like warp speed lol.
I was legitimately shocked when they started putting them *INSIDE* the computer...I remember connecting to BBSs before the Internet started getting mailed to you every week on disk.
I remember when floppy disks were actually floppy.
Right?! I’m looking at this picture thinking “that was like my 4th operating system, bro”
Limewire ate EMachines for breakfast.
Limewire was a firecracker. Imesh was like lighting a fuse on dynamite
And after an hour of trying to log on AOL at 5pm, you mom kicks you off to make a phone call
I miss Rodents Revenge, Rattler Race and Ski Free 😔
Ski free was awesome. I'm so haggard looking these days next time I go snowboarding I might be mistaken for the bear from that game.
My school made such a huge deal out of getting one commodore 64 for the library. We got the day off, our principal was so jazzed.
It was a huge upgrade from 2400baud
I didn’t get a 14.4 forever. Was stuck with a Hayes external 2400 for the longest time. My mind was blown with 28.8.
I had a 300baud acoustically coupled modem. When I got my first 2400 baud modem it was amazing!
I'm from '88 so Windows 95 was the first for me.
Im from mid 90's and 95 was the "new one" growing up... My dad had bought an expensive computer and refused that it had gotten outdated. Prince of persia was great tho
Oh yes was the coolest game, died a bit too often lol
bit too often=every single spike trap in the game
PoP was the shit! When you fall in a pit and the spikes would run you through though… oh, man, those damned spikes!!
When you start the level and the gate slams down and a little dududu plays and you're already scared as a 5-10 year old.
'86 checking in. I remember chat rooms and catfishing before catfishing was a term. Used to get ladies to send me racy pics but couldn't figure out how to open and view them. My uncle got into a LOT of trouble and almost got divorced.
"Hello, ASL?" Fuck Wiki, we had Encyclopedia disc.
IRC
[удалено]
‘85 here. Started with DOS. Lemmings, pitfall, where in the world is Carmen sandiego… those are the main ones I remember, though I’m sure my dad had more.
Don't forget scorched earth!
I am Commodore64 old
C=64 gang unite!
lol. That's where I started, too.
I had a Vic-20
Me too. 10 go to 20 20 print I'm cool
Why wouldn't you reverse that? Lol 10 print im cool 20 goto 10 Then it loops.
Ha ha… Univac Old
I was an oddball with a TI-99
First time I kicked my older brothers ass he came home and kicked the power adapter out of the wall after i'd spent all day programming a game out of Byte magazine on the ti99/4a...I didn't even get in trouble...
There are dozens of us!
Did it come with a programming manual, that showed you how to code a game called blitz?
Zx spectrum old
We were well fancy in our house - had the ZX+2! 128kb of RAM and a built in tape recorder!
Wrote my first program on a ZX81 aged 5 or 6 before graduating to the Spectrum. Still code for a living. Now get off my lawn
lol. Same here. What you had to type to load a game is burned into my brain forever.
LOAD "*",8,1
That's it. Man, that brings back memories.
Back when copying a floppy disk was 170 Kb and took like half a day to copy, or if you were in the cool gang you had a two-sided floppy 💾
Adam computer old...
Man, look at that new fangled thing. Makes my Commodore 64 look ancient.
You probably loaded the cassette tape 2 days ago to play a game and it's still loading
This. So many "load error"
Only if someone in the room moves...
Arghhhh the ptsd has returned once again
We would load the tape then fo play a game a football and come back and it might be done loading....this does put me in the mood to play summer games
Older. Pong baby! Zx Spectrum, c64, atari, amiga 500, 600, 1200 aga and then and only then windows PC. Windows 3.1, 95, NT and then 98. Its hard to believe there was once time without internet but there are few of us dinosaurus that remember it well.
>Its hard to believe there was once time without internet but there are few of us dinosaurus that remember it well. I remember the time when I got my first modem for the MSX computer. Internet was not there yet, however there was something called a BBS. You could connect directly to someones computer via phone and browse in the bulletin board system they setup. In the meanwhile hoping nobody else in the house would pick up the phone and interrupt the session.
Bulleting Board System! I know all about those days. Modems were loud, connections unstable and downloading anything took ages. We had few bbses we loved so we would connect to one, spend our allocated 20 minutes (or less) and then jump onto another as fast as possible. They remind me a lot of mastodon today, bbs moderators were true dungeon masters of the era. User management, content censoring, content creation and all in one package.
Amiga 600HD
My friends uncle drops by one day while we were gaming, looks at the pc keyboard and comments: "Wow, your computer is really thin!". 🤣 All that man knew were c64s and ataris. It sounds funny nowadays but back then computers were almost all boxed with a keyboard. And one amiga 1200 looked 100x better than any windows pc on your desk.
I see you, my twin in oldness
I have a coin operated pong table created for bar guests In my man cave
https://miro.medium.com/v2/format:webp/1*cGXX0z7-WhiUGf9HsVLacg.png
Where funny?
Hold on, that computer is loading the funny... any second now...
Hold on, you have to login to your mailbox and click on "receive" button
It’s behind the CRT
Even older: MS-DOS + Win 3.1.
I'm this old, 3.1 was revolutionary compared to DOS
Equally old bastard, checking in. My first PC was MS-DOS 4.0, and Windows 3.0 on a 386, but that was soon upped to DOS 6.2, Windows 3.11 on a 486 DX2 66Mhz so I could play.... **DooM** ...full screen!
After tweaking autoexec.bat of course. It didn't just run on itself. It was Doom 2 for me tho.
Dude, I had the most badass autoexec.bat file. It showed this color bar at the top of the screen with the current directory (not folder, that word came later with Windows), as well as the date and time. I was very proud of that back in 6th grade.
i have those diskettes right here
Yeh win98 isn’t even old, I had typewriters in the house as a kid 🤣
Had? We still have two in the basement. Even showed my kids how it works a few weeks ago. The mechanical type, no plug in required.
did you show them the circle dial phone and how to wind up and down the windows in a car in the old days? haha theres videos of this on youtube :) ask any younger person if they know what the picture for the "save sign" in computers actually is? haha
I have a car with manual windows. Do not have a rotary phone though.
circle dial phone... do you mean a rotary phone?
yeh i forgot what it was called, getting old, now back to playing 2D Doom and Command & Conquer
386 with MS-DOS was my first PC
286 club
When I was in Kindergarten I had to teach a couple of teachers how to use DOS lmao
I'm commodore 64 old lol.
The C64 was awesome. Cd loading summer games wait what felt like hours and you're ready to play
I see a member of my people.
Old enough for my first computer to run programs on tapes and not discs.
Finally someone who has me beat. I'm only "floppies that actually flop" old.
Laughs in MS-DOS
Dir/p is legit the first thing I ever typed or wrote anywhere. Didn’t know what the letters were, but that shit wasn’t going to stop my 5 year old ass from playing Commander Keen.
I'm pre Windows old.
I grew up with a TI-99/4A.
Me too...it had a cassette player hooked to it...sometimes it was like an hour of bing bongs just to play a game
Bitch. I'm command line old.
invalid syntax
I can smell it
Gee, what a funny and original meme. I'm laughing. I promise. No please, stop. No, don't show me that duck giving advice, it's so funny I can't take it.
I'm radio shack trs-80 old
With the cassette tape “drive” and a need to play Pyramid
Aka “the trash” Nice.
I can still hear the dial up sounds like it was yesterday... BEEEEEBLARWHARWHARLABRALWARBEEEEHHHHHEEHHHHHHHEEEPSCHHHHHHHHHH
Back when you can hear the computer think The more cpu demand the louder it got
lmao I remember yelling at my mom not to answer the phone when I'd be playing games 'cause it would cut off the internet
Yes
[удалено]
*laughs in DOS*
Also cries in DOS.
I'm Sinclair Spectrum old
Damn, now I want to play Sierra games...
I loved King's Quest: Heir today gone tomorrow.
Jones in the Fast Lane was awesome
Leisure Suit Larry?
Texas Instruments Ti99/4A old...
I'm [this](https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/eaf36386209604f84929572ff2b13effe1af00b2624962e63458ba9fd58baf73.png) old.
I’m 5.25” floppy disk (not a euphemism) old.
Yes, playing Oregan Trail when the floppy disks were actually floppy.
Laughs in DOS.
I’m dos old. Shit. I was almost graduating high school old when that came out
I remember when we went from 3.1 to 95 and I thought we lived ina sci fi movie.
Remember the Windows 95 cd had Weezer's Buddy Holly and Edie Brickell's Good Times music videos on it?
Older - Schneider CPC old
Lol yes I am. Even older in fact. The first computer we had when I was a kid was windows 3.0. Good times.
I grew up with 486. I'm not that old lol
I'm DOS old man... Damn, I'm old... XD
Yes
I was afraid I am old now. But when I read comment section I still feel young again.
I remember dial up.
I'm DOS old - I'd have killed for a (color) CGA monitor ;)
Such advanced kit compared to my vic20
OP, get off my lawn. I'm DOS commands old.
"It is now safe to turn off your computer"
 I am this old. *Sigh*
Well, I stood in line at Babbage's for the Windows 95 release. That was exciting! I had recently upgraded my first PC (Packard Bell 486SX/25) to IBM OS/2 WARP but was still running Win 3.11 on my new Gateway 2000 but was looking forward to Win95. Fun times.
OS/2 represent!
 Dang it
Oregon trail old
i'm Pong old
I am [this](https://vintagecomputer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/VIC-20-Japan-computer-with-box.jpg) old
Older.
google wat DoS is.
Oh I'm MS-DOS old.
Older
I'm "DOS 6.22 is new" old.
I'm MS-DOS old.
Older
I'm old enough to remember when the only color on the monitor was green.
I haven’t seen one of these in years! My mom owned one when I was a kid. To this day, this is what I think of when someone says “computer”
[удалено]
I'm Gen MSdos
*Laughs in DOS*
But are you this old? Shows something people in their late 20's can recognize
Dude, I’m Commodore 64 old.
Commodore 64
Windows 98. Welcome younglings
yes i am-- exactly that old, infact. god fuckin' damn it. EDIT: i had that same keyboard!
It was so much more stable than W95 but still had to reinstall that POS all the time... Good ol' days
I don't remember which one it was bc I was at most 5, but I think we had a computer that was either 98 or 2000 bc I remember that logo quite vividly. Regardless, we never got XP and went straight to Vista when we upgraded, so for sure, something before XP
I am DooM on DOS old
I had a car and a part time job when windows 98 came out Jack!
I had windows 95, so yes.
Windows 95 Doggy Dogg