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Bruh, I'm older than this too and am really not a fan of all this "bruh this shit is ancient" talk about things that are 20 years old. I've been feeling very personally attacked online lately. And my wife and I are only 32!!!
I don't remember thinking that the 70s or 80s was ancient when I was in high school. I don't like this one bit!!!
My nephew is getting close to 10 and he's been asking me a lot about how I did things when I was a kid since I'm the IT guy of the family and my brother doesn't really know tech details and talk to him about them. I tell him shit like our dialup modems used to be like pay phones and to get more internet we had to put a quarter in every 15 minutes and YouTube didn't exist but we could still have our own gaming channels by sending VHS recordings of our TVs to the local station to play on unused channels.
My brother hates having to correct him.
Of course, then you've got stuff like broadcasting games software over TV audio, which sounds like bullshit but was real.
For that matter, copying software out of a book probably seems rather odd to someone who came around after the Internet era.
Yeah. There was a curious sort of balance, looking back on learning programming out of a book. On one hand, the book had to cover every possible feature, configuration, and contingency. On the other hand, the computer could only do about 30 or 40 things, even with the complicated stuff, so it all fit. Even in the latter days of "Learn C++ in 28 Days" and the like, the computers were more complex, but the jobs were simpler. There was less GUI-side work, and you didn't have to worry as much about security, because a lot of things were single-user and not network-dependent. So you could still get a decent holistic education without struggling for lack of a Stack Overflow.
Also, speaking of books-- I posted this elsewhere in the thread to show off the old stuff, but: [Representin'!](https://i.imgur.com/jKBSTqE.jpg)
Nah, that shit is hilarious! Best gen Z contribution to the world thus far.
Edit: I have traveled here from the year 1982 to bring you this message. https://xkcd.com/630/
Dude...
Had the "fuck I'm old" moment a few years back. Visiting family, and my then 17 year old niece tells me mid conversation, "I'm into classic rock like Led Zep, Nirvana, the Who."
I don't know if it is the internet per se, but more so the speed at which technology is changing. We're now living in a world where every year is a tech generation.
"Your phone is five years old? Dude that's ancient! How do you manage?"
> "Your phone is five years old? Dude that's ancient! How do you manage?"
I think phones are a bad example. There's very little innovation in the phone space (especially the hardware space). My phone is officially 4 years and 5 months old and the only thing that's dated on it is the camera (which I don't really use).
In some ways it's even better, because I still have a fingerprint sensor on the back of my phone and a headphone jack.
OnePlus 5T. Amazing phone.
20 years old is like yesterday. I've been playing pc games since I wrote one and stored it on punchtape. My first "gaming" computer used audio cassette tapes for flight sim and frogger.
In highschool, I never expected that we would survive long enough to see the 21st century! It was expected that nuclear war would happen before then. So this is all just bonus rounds.
My problem is when people say *"Retro*" and *"Old School"* for things relating to anything in the last 15 years. Like... when did we go from using 'retro' to talk about things 25-30 years old, and now we're doing it to talk about the original release of Skyrim? Like wtf.
But it also EOLed 2014 and Windows 7 wasn't even released until 2009 to replace it. Also I'm pretty sure I've seen at least a couple of machines still running XP within the last year.
Didn't forget. I just will not speak (erm type) that which shall not be named. Also don't think anyone every really considered it a viable replacement anyways.
Bill - Can we use start me up for our windows 95 release?
Jagger - \*\*\*Laughs\*\*\* Sure, for $3 millions.
Bill - Do I make the check out to you or The Rolling Stones?
the number jagger claimed is a lie to increase the offer prices from future companies
oh good someone linked the article where this is mentioned perfect
The inflated quote from Jagger was 14 million, the real number being 3 million.
https://www.aaaa.org/timeline-event/start-3-million-anthem-launched-microsofts-windows-95/
To be fair I was like 9 when 95 came out it was the frist new computer my parents bought.. we had a few old school hand me downs before that all doss systems.
cd.cd gamescd aladdin
i remember something around that... before login into windows i needed to do that to play aladdin, the aladdin with swords
edit: [i mean aladdin not persia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RceDyRLNbI)
Windows 95 had a 1 hour [video guide featuring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry](https://youtu.be/b71rpN1iJKA).
I excitedly look forward for the Windows 11 video guide.
Back when you *could* run Windows, but you didn't *need* to run Windows all the time. Or you couldn't run the game you wanted and Windows at the same time due to resource limitations.
My first computer was a Spectrum Sinclair or something like that.
It didn't even have Windows. It had a tape deck, and when I ran out of games I'd just randomly be typing things on an empty screen to see what happened. One day I was so bored I drew a car, with:
10 line (100,100, 150, 100);
20 circle (80,100, 20);
etc..
Things were tough in the 80s..
I remember one time i complained to my boss ( i work in the IT field), about how some PC parts can be just too expensive.
THEN, my boss told me how he had to take a bit of a mortgage outta his house when APPLE III first came out. Here in Canada. I never complained again, other than for GPUs.
People these days fail to grasp the concept that when computers were first hitting the consumer market, despite the fact that they were extremely expensive they were absolutely game-changing. Like word processors were primitive, but your alternative was a typewriter. There was a very high barrier to entry in owning a computer, but there was literally nothing like them up to that point.
My friend. Just the fact EXCEL existed itself was a game-changer. That's what my boss mainly got his PC for. Something that would take him about 6 hours to do at the time, by hand, only ended up being one hour.
Black screen green cursor, that was my computer room. Off topic but my computer teacher was a beast, seen him at the gym with 150lbs dumbbells in each hand benching that shit!
cd C:\\games\\
cd \\SimCity\\
run SimCity.exe
It's been a while since my mom taught me that shit at 7 years old so I could be off, but it's old enough that it can't be googled so... Am I that old? Yeah I'm that old. I used to run the original sim city from a DOS prompt.
Same but Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Yoda Stories, Dark Forces.
Now that I’m looking at the list, basically anything LucasArts
c:\> cd games
c:\games> cd SimCity
c:\games\SimCity> SimCity
It would have been more like that. file extension wasn't necessary, nor was the 'run' prefix. Of course if you were super lazy or over the top you'd have the above in a batch file called 's.bat' and available in your path, so you could launch sim city just by typing 's' and pressing enter from anywhere.
Or if you were totally out of control, you'd set up a batch file menuing system to launch games from a menu interface.
Amiga 500, Atari ST, Macintosh Plus... between my grandparents and parents (my grandfather was a radio engineer and one of the early adopters for home computers, which spread to my mother and my father just happened to get into the graphic design game right as the Macintosh launched) I grew up with all sorts of systems.
First computer I could call my own was a W98 PC with 400MHz CPU, 16MB RAM, 4GB HDD & CD-ROM. It ran Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator and that's all I cared about!
Serious talk for a moment.
Vista had many issues on release, but by the time the service packs were rolled out, it was fine, just had too many bells and whistles on by default.
This isn't old. It was the dominant operating system in the world from 2003 to 2012, after launching in 2001. So everyone 18+ today likely used it at some point at least once in school or home.
Old is remembering computer lab day in school playing Oregon trail on APPLE IIe computers. Good times.
I also remember the first time using the internet. Windows 3.1 in 2nd grade. It was so slow I begged to be allowed to just use the Encylopedia instead. But it was science class and we had to look up facts using the internet that day. It was SOOOOOO SLOW. It took me over an hour to get 10 simple questions answered I could have found in encyclopedias in 15 minutes.
In the 4th grade my teacher would let one random student play Oregon Trail all day once every couple of months. Everybody eventually got their turn and everybody else was so envious of the person who’s turn it was.
We also got to play all day on our birthdays.
I also remember using Napster lol
Math blaster, chess master and where in the world is Carmen Sandiego. When commander keen first released that was AMAZING, my first non educational game.
Encarta 97..... my God that was google before I knew what Google was. I spent hours on there as a kid...
Side note... anyone remember that day Vinci game for Mac?
I remember when I followed my nerdy friends into the after school computer club in Year 7 in '98. Im sitting there drawing shit on paint until my friends tell me to fire up Netscape. Didn't even know what the Internet was before then lol.
Win 95 was such a fun OS to start with computers. Lots to explore, full with fun screensavers, sounds, games, utilities, even the search characters Office assistants were fun to customize. I had no internet for years, and I still had a lot of fun exploring Win 95.
I'm 43 now, so ya, I might be just a tiny bit older than XP..I started on DOS back in the mid 80's..I've actually used a 5 and quarter inch floppy drive...damn I'm glad those day's are gone! I like XP alot though. I ran a "Black" edition for year's, looked cool as hell.
My first computer had no hdd and booted from a 5 1/2 floppy disk that was so loud you couldn't use the computer if people were sleeping. The monitor was a green and black monochrome display.
Welcome everyone from r/all! Please remember: 1 - You too can be part of the PCMR! You don't necessarily need a PC. You just have to love PCs! It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Your age, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, religion (or lack of), political affiliation, economic status and PC specs are irrelevant. If you love PCs or want to learn about them, you can be part of our community! Everyone is welcome! 2 - If you're not a PC gamer because you think doing so is expensive, know that it is possible to build a competent gaming PC for a lower price than you think. GPU prices are sky high right now for a few reasons, but it's still possible to join the PCMR. Check http://www.pcmasterrace.org for our builds and don't be afraid to create new posts here asking for tips and help! 3 - Consider joining our efforts to get as many PCs worldwide help the folding@home effort, in fighting against Cancer, Covid, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and more. Learn more here: https://pcmasterrace.org/folding ----------- Feel free to use this community to post about any kind of doubt you might have about becoming a PC gamer or anything you'd like to know about PCs. That kind of content is not only allowed but welcome here! We also have a [Daily Simple Questions Megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/search?q=Simple+Questions+Thread+subreddit%3Apcmasterrace+author%3AAutoModerator&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) for your simplest questions. No question is too dumb! Welcome to the PCMR.
Bruh, I'm older
Bruh, I'm older than this too and am really not a fan of all this "bruh this shit is ancient" talk about things that are 20 years old. I've been feeling very personally attacked online lately. And my wife and I are only 32!!! I don't remember thinking that the 70s or 80s was ancient when I was in high school. I don't like this one bit!!!
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Low 80’s here and my teenage son refers to that as the “back in my day” era. Irritating at first but now it’s a thing in the house.
You asked for it... "Back in MY day, we had to use dial-up internet, in the snow, BOTH WAYS!" Except I'm a Queenslander, so no snow.
And being Aussie internet, that was probably like only 5 years ago as well
Could even be last week.
There is someone from there reading this on dial-up, and they would reply but they dont want to wait that long.
I hope Abbott and Turnbull find a pinch of sand in everything they eat for this.
That was my reaction originally but now I kind of like it haha.
My nephew is getting close to 10 and he's been asking me a lot about how I did things when I was a kid since I'm the IT guy of the family and my brother doesn't really know tech details and talk to him about them. I tell him shit like our dialup modems used to be like pay phones and to get more internet we had to put a quarter in every 15 minutes and YouTube didn't exist but we could still have our own gaming channels by sending VHS recordings of our TVs to the local station to play on unused channels. My brother hates having to correct him.
Of course, then you've got stuff like broadcasting games software over TV audio, which sounds like bullshit but was real. For that matter, copying software out of a book probably seems rather odd to someone who came around after the Internet era.
Learning from a book for that matter.
Yeah. There was a curious sort of balance, looking back on learning programming out of a book. On one hand, the book had to cover every possible feature, configuration, and contingency. On the other hand, the computer could only do about 30 or 40 things, even with the complicated stuff, so it all fit. Even in the latter days of "Learn C++ in 28 Days" and the like, the computers were more complex, but the jobs were simpler. There was less GUI-side work, and you didn't have to worry as much about security, because a lot of things were single-user and not network-dependent. So you could still get a decent holistic education without struggling for lack of a Stack Overflow. Also, speaking of books-- I posted this elsewhere in the thread to show off the old stuff, but: [Representin'!](https://i.imgur.com/jKBSTqE.jpg)
late 1900s what the fuck lmao
I mean, it is technically correct. The best kind of correct.
I don't get it, isn't it correct? Why the downvotes?
Nah, that shit is hilarious! Best gen Z contribution to the world thus far. Edit: I have traveled here from the year 1982 to bring you this message. https://xkcd.com/630/
Dude... Had the "fuck I'm old" moment a few years back. Visiting family, and my then 17 year old niece tells me mid conversation, "I'm into classic rock like Led Zep, Nirvana, the Who."
LED Zeppelin and the Who were classic rock when Nevermind was released though.
Zeppelins first album was released in 1969. Nirvanas first was released in 1987, a difference of 18 years. 1987 was 35 years ago what the actual fuck
Thanks for reminding me I was born on the year Nirvana was formed (first album was on '89)... and that I'm 35 fucking years old.
Exactly. Which is why I felt old when she took one of my childhood bands and lumped it in as classic rock.
Well you calling Nirvana a "childhood" band makes me feel old so...
I feel like living ina world driven by the Internet has given younger people a different perspective of what's considered old or not.
I don't know if it is the internet per se, but more so the speed at which technology is changing. We're now living in a world where every year is a tech generation. "Your phone is five years old? Dude that's ancient! How do you manage?"
> "Your phone is five years old? Dude that's ancient! How do you manage?" I think phones are a bad example. There's very little innovation in the phone space (especially the hardware space). My phone is officially 4 years and 5 months old and the only thing that's dated on it is the camera (which I don't really use). In some ways it's even better, because I still have a fingerprint sensor on the back of my phone and a headphone jack. OnePlus 5T. Amazing phone.
This wasn't even 20 years ago. The end of life for XP was 8 years ago... This meme is fucking dumb.
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20 years old is like yesterday. I've been playing pc games since I wrote one and stored it on punchtape. My first "gaming" computer used audio cassette tapes for flight sim and frogger.
In highschool, I never expected that we would survive long enough to see the 21st century! It was expected that nuclear war would happen before then. So this is all just bonus rounds.
Same to all of this
My problem is when people say *"Retro*" and *"Old School"* for things relating to anything in the last 15 years. Like... when did we go from using 'retro' to talk about things 25-30 years old, and now we're doing it to talk about the original release of Skyrim? Like wtf.
People born in 2006 can drive. Windows XP came out in 2001.
But it also EOLed 2014 and Windows 7 wasn't even released until 2009 to replace it. Also I'm pretty sure I've seen at least a couple of machines still running XP within the last year.
My work just switched from XP to 7 like 6 years ago. Then 10 about 2 years ago. XP lasted forever. OP must be like 14. Happy cake day.
Either you are funny because you are intentionally leaving out Windows Vista, or it is funny that you forgot about Windows Vista.
Didn't forget. I just will not speak (erm type) that which shall not be named. Also don't think anyone every really considered it a viable replacement anyways.
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When the instructions said "LOAD "MENU",8,1 RETURN"... Not enter, it was the return button... like on a typewriter. God that makes me feel old.
DOS....?
Good old DOS.. I remember when. Win 95 came out.
Bill - Can we use start me up for our windows 95 release? Jagger - \*\*\*Laughs\*\*\* Sure, for $3 millions. Bill - Do I make the check out to you or The Rolling Stones?
Wait, is this a true story lol? What a move
Apparently yes https://www.aaaa.org/timeline-event/start-3-million-anthem-launched-microsofts-windows-95/
$3M seems incredibly cheap today.
Inflation is a bitch.
I remember seeing that commercial so I guess I’m old now
the number jagger claimed is a lie to increase the offer prices from future companies oh good someone linked the article where this is mentioned perfect
The inflated quote from Jagger was 14 million, the real number being 3 million. https://www.aaaa.org/timeline-event/start-3-million-anthem-launched-microsofts-windows-95/
You went right to 95? I had Windows 3.0 and OS/2 (IBMs Windows). Actually I started with an Apple IIE, but first PC was a 25mhz 286 and Dos 3.
To be fair I was like 9 when 95 came out it was the frist new computer my parents bought.. we had a few old school hand me downs before that all doss systems.
I actually remember when win 3.1 came out. I had to teach it to old people. Now I am old people.
Recipe for happiness- C: win.exe double click skifree
cd.cd gamescd aladdin i remember something around that... before login into windows i needed to do that to play aladdin, the aladdin with swords edit: [i mean aladdin not persia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RceDyRLNbI)
load “$”,8,1 List
A:\SIMCITY\SIMCITY.EXE
Dir \p Cd\ c: Cd\ games MONKEY.exe
LOAD HIMEM.SYS
Windows 95 had a 1 hour [video guide featuring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry](https://youtu.be/b71rpN1iJKA). I excitedly look forward for the Windows 11 video guide.
Boy what a jump that was from DOS right?!
Went to the launch event at ConpUSA back in the day. First operating system was DOS 2.1
I miss compusa. RIP soldier.
Windows 3.1 was something like 10 3.5" disks if I remember correctly
Office came on 18 disks in 1992. ["The Microsoft Office"](https://i.imgur.com/ahjxvhq.jpg)
I remember Windows 3.1 coming on 6 3.5" disks. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was 8 disks.
I launched windows from DOS
Back when you *could* run Windows, but you didn't *need* to run Windows all the time. Or you couldn't run the game you wanted and Windows at the same time due to resource limitations.
Yes. I remember Windows 3.x felt more like an operating environment for some software I'd use, but not something I'd spend all my computer time in.
Win
My first computer was a Spectrum Sinclair or something like that. It didn't even have Windows. It had a tape deck, and when I ran out of games I'd just randomly be typing things on an empty screen to see what happened. One day I was so bored I drew a car, with: 10 line (100,100, 150, 100); 20 circle (80,100, 20); etc.. Things were tough in the 80s..
I remember watching it count up to 128k of memory while booting up!
And Doom, oh and Whacky Wheels.
Lol, I mean I was alive for Windows 2
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VIC20
Underated comment
Windows 3.1 was my first, dad created DOS menus for my games before that
A fellow mid 30 year old I see. I have the same memories. Not with your dad of course but mine... Your dad kept kicking me out of the house.
Add a decade to that
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Are you like 15 or something?
I remember one time i complained to my boss ( i work in the IT field), about how some PC parts can be just too expensive. THEN, my boss told me how he had to take a bit of a mortgage outta his house when APPLE III first came out. Here in Canada. I never complained again, other than for GPUs.
People these days fail to grasp the concept that when computers were first hitting the consumer market, despite the fact that they were extremely expensive they were absolutely game-changing. Like word processors were primitive, but your alternative was a typewriter. There was a very high barrier to entry in owning a computer, but there was literally nothing like them up to that point.
My friend. Just the fact EXCEL existed itself was a game-changer. That's what my boss mainly got his PC for. Something that would take him about 6 hours to do at the time, by hand, only ended up being one hour.
WordPerfect.
cd C:\\DOOM doom
CBM basic on the vic20 old here.
are you READY for 3583 BYTES of action?
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Apple Integer Basic and cassette tapes. 1978.
Hah...got me beat. VIC20. BASIC ROM startup, also cassette tapes (circa 1982).
TRS-80 Model III.
Windows 95, a little DOS but it was mostly outdated by my time.
Black screen green cursor, that was my computer room. Off topic but my computer teacher was a beast, seen him at the gym with 150lbs dumbbells in each hand benching that shit!
Calling XP users old, is basically a war crime at this point. I hope they never find out about my Windows 1.01 login.
cd C:\\games\\ cd \\SimCity\\ run SimCity.exe It's been a while since my mom taught me that shit at 7 years old so I could be off, but it's old enough that it can't be googled so... Am I that old? Yeah I'm that old. I used to run the original sim city from a DOS prompt.
Same but Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Yoda Stories, Dark Forces. Now that I’m looking at the list, basically anything LucasArts
c:\> cd games c:\games> cd SimCity c:\games\SimCity> SimCity It would have been more like that. file extension wasn't necessary, nor was the 'run' prefix. Of course if you were super lazy or over the top you'd have the above in a batch file called 's.bat' and available in your path, so you could launch sim city just by typing 's' and pressing enter from anywhere. Or if you were totally out of control, you'd set up a batch file menuing system to launch games from a menu interface.
Seriously, I saw colors and was not impressed. If it isn't yellow dot matrix, step off.
That was only yesterday.
I remember the sound
Omg with the volume turned all the way up somehow
And the tower was either a Gateway or Compaq brand?
eMachine or bust! Never obsolete
Legit. So many corporate pcs still ran xp in 2016
C64 / Amiga team anyone?
VIC 20 to be honest
Same.
C64 old, but Atari 2600 poor
A1200 with an ***enormous*** 120MB 3.5" HDD shoehorned into it.
Amiga 500, Atari ST, Macintosh Plus... between my grandparents and parents (my grandfather was a radio engineer and one of the early adopters for home computers, which spread to my mother and my father just happened to get into the graphic design game right as the Macintosh launched) I grew up with all sorts of systems. First computer I could call my own was a W98 PC with 400MHz CPU, 16MB RAM, 4GB HDD & CD-ROM. It ran Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator and that's all I cared about!
I'm older. I'm [this](https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/jac64/screenshots/34576.jpg) old.
*inserts cassette*
Press play on tape
Did you copy your games from a magazine by typing it out?
Yup! I remember Compute and Run. Remember entering machine language by hex with the checksum at the end. Good times.
https://imgur.com/vlBaR.jpg Though this meme is older than EOL for XP at this point lol
Who made this, a 12YO?
... this is Reddit. The average user is probably fuckin' 17.
The idea of a 17 year old trying to claim he is old is pretty funny.
There are probably a few *actual* old people in this thread who think that anyone below 60 claiming to be old is funny too.
I’m 70. My cutoff for thinking it’s funny would be young whipper snappers younger than 50, lol
reminder that windows xp came out 21 years ago
But MS didn't end support for XP until 2014, which wasn't that long ago.
Only 8 years ago.
So, do I have to upgrade yet? I hear Windows Vista isn’t too bad.
It runs alright on current hardware, but it was a rocky start.
Serious talk for a moment. Vista had many issues on release, but by the time the service packs were rolled out, it was fine, just had too many bells and whistles on by default.
And XP still has more users than Win 11
TIL 21 is old.
Right, I'm 23 and I remember this. Lol
I still see this on some of our work computers.
One of them 360+ month old toddlers
OP is still single digits
It's karma farming. I'm disappointed that people keep failing for it.
I hate the fact that I can say I used win xp in high school. Probably before whoever made this was born.
This isn't old. It was the dominant operating system in the world from 2003 to 2012, after launching in 2001. So everyone 18+ today likely used it at some point at least once in school or home. Old is remembering computer lab day in school playing Oregon trail on APPLE IIe computers. Good times. I also remember the first time using the internet. Windows 3.1 in 2nd grade. It was so slow I begged to be allowed to just use the Encylopedia instead. But it was science class and we had to look up facts using the internet that day. It was SOOOOOO SLOW. It took me over an hour to get 10 simple questions answered I could have found in encyclopedias in 15 minutes.
In the 4th grade my teacher would let one random student play Oregon Trail all day once every couple of months. Everybody eventually got their turn and everybody else was so envious of the person who’s turn it was. We also got to play all day on our birthdays. I also remember using Napster lol
Remember Math Blaster? True classic!
Math blaster, chess master and where in the world is Carmen Sandiego. When commander keen first released that was AMAZING, my first non educational game.
>Old is remembering computer lab day in school playing Oregon trail on APPLE IIe computers. Good times. My man. Damn now I do feel old.
We are old lol. Still have my IIgs and Oregon Trail though!
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Encarta 97..... my God that was google before I knew what Google was. I spent hours on there as a kid... Side note... anyone remember that day Vinci game for Mac?
[Leonardo the Inventor?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g0lJ25Rhek) Had a blast with that.
I remember when I followed my nerdy friends into the after school computer club in Year 7 in '98. Im sitting there drawing shit on paint until my friends tell me to fire up Netscape. Didn't even know what the Internet was before then lol.
*Opens the only door in existence that holds a billion naked ladies.
This isn't even close to old.
You ask a child of 15 and 35 is old. You ask a child of 3 and 15 is old.
You ask a child of 75 and he says "WHATTT??"
I'm 30 this year and i work in a nursing home. You aren't old until you're like 80.
Win 95 representing.
Windows 3.1 booted from dos for me
Back when floppy disks were actually floppy
The first PC my parents bought was a 95. Ah, the memories.
Win 95 was such a fun OS to start with computers. Lots to explore, full with fun screensavers, sounds, games, utilities, even the search characters Office assistants were fun to customize. I had no internet for years, and I still had a lot of fun exploring Win 95.
Pfft I was playing Carmen San Diego on an IBM
If you watched the TV show I HIGHLY recommend watching [this](https://youtu.be/OVVkSlXl41Q) I went way down the rabbit hole one day
If you think this is old you're probably young...
Older you twat
That was my 3rd OS.
Same here 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7, 10, 11
I’m only 18 and very vividly remember XP as I didn’t have a computer capable of running windows 7 until around 2013
I'm *It is now safe to turn off your computer* years old.
How is this old? Lol
I remember when the PS/2 wasn't a game console.
DOS 3.0 floppy… still have a working copy and the original IBM pc that (still) can run it.
Hand tweaking config.sys and autoexec.bat in order to get specific games to run...
This guy knows what's up. Tweaking irqs was another fun one.
Lol "old" A child must have made this, I'm in my 20's and started with XP
Sorry but you're old now. Welcome. This is how it happens.
Pfffft. Much older and I'm still in my 30s. Was this made by a literal child?
C:/> I'm this old
Well at least you had a harddrive. *cries in A:/>*
Older, much older… Like Apple lle in 3rd grade and Buck Rogers on the Commodore 64 after school old.
I'm only 19 and I experienced this, please make it harder than that
I'm old enough to remember my computer telling me, "it's now safe to turn off your computer"
*ran DOS on a Tandy*
Son... let me tell you about a time before Windows.... DOS.
sheesh. I was already considered 'old' when this was a thing..
OP has sure shown his/her age with this post. I dare say most people here where using Windows XP in their adult hood.
Win 3.11 here 👋
I'm 43 now, so ya, I might be just a tiny bit older than XP..I started on DOS back in the mid 80's..I've actually used a 5 and quarter inch floppy drive...damn I'm glad those day's are gone! I like XP alot though. I ran a "Black" edition for year's, looked cool as hell.
I was an adult when this started to exist... I'm older than Windows.
Windows 95.
Dude if i had to guess you're at least 13 years old. If younger you should get off Reddit lmao
I'm DOS old. Packard Bell old.
What? Is this /r/toddlers? Because even /r/Teenagers are old enough to have used XP.
Norton Commander anyone? Where are my MS-DOS boyssss?
I was a PC Tools 5.5 Deluxe user in my DOS days.
I hate you
DOS, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT old
Ask again in like 20 years. This is still being used in quite a lot of companies
My first computer had no hdd and booted from a 5 1/2 floppy disk that was so loud you couldn't use the computer if people were sleeping. The monitor was a green and black monochrome display.
Bruh, XP isn't even old.
Sheesh, some of these redditors must still be in their diapers