I remember dialing into bulletin board services to leave chat comments and share small files that would take hours to download.
So many games of Spider Solitaire
4 of these don’t belong
7 of these don’t belong
Why is there a spider on my solitaire card? Where the fuck is my Minesweeper and Netscape Navigator?
Hell yeah!
Win7 isn’t that old.
People born when Windows 7 was released can get a driver’s license in many parts of the world
Fuck I’m old.
you take that back
What’s all this newfangled content being posted as old? My first computer had Windows 3.11 that you booted to from a command prompt. It was an amazing graphical upgrade from the command line computers. Now you could actually see what you were doing on the screen instead of typing commands and hoping a document would print with your data.
Before that, I used Apple IIe computers at school, with their solidly green command line interface. I remember being taught how to program instructions with those computers. You had a “turtle” (green triangle) that you needed to move to a specific spot on the screen, and you typed in commands to make him move.
Whatever content is in this meme, it all released long after I grew up and became an adult. You young whippersnappers.
You had a “turtle” (green triangle) that you needed to move to a specific spot on the screen, and you typed in commands to make him move.
Ah. LOGO.
Oh man! I had no clue what the program was called. We used it way back in my kindergarten/1st grade days, so I’d long forgotten the specifics. Thank you! This is exactly it.
Ok, boomer
Millennials are now “old” by internet standards, so Gen X and older are positively ancient.
I’m an elder Millennial, and I remember when we got old enough to use the 386 machines at school. Before that we were using DOS.
Our first home computer was bought second hand and didn’t even have a hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives, and also ran DOS. We’d have kids from the entire neighborhood visit to play games on it, because although it was second hand it was also very rare to have one.
I was 12 when Windows 95 came out. All this stuff looks waay newer than that. I’d say this draws the line for old at the older part of Gen Z. Millennials aren’t even on the scale.
The oldest Millennials are 44 now, and the term is still sometimes used to mean “young people.” But only by older people.
Are you also a member of the ‘Oregon Trail and Number Munchers on the school computer lab’s Apple II’s’ club?
Along with like… KidPix, lol?
Or am I a bit younger than you?
Somehow I’m using the default wallpaper on both w10 and android since I’m older, I just don’t care anymore while before it used to be very important lol
Yeah, I couldn’t even tell you what my background is. I used to have a slideshow of them.
Shit, I’m old…
God, same. I’m actually using that currently on my laptop.
It’s on my old netbook, it will never leave.
That thing is nearing 20 now I think!
If you stare at it long enough the clouds start to move a little
Huh I can’t hear the meme unmute it please.
I need someone do this with XP
XP was my last windows before I switched to Linux btw
Sounds like a very sane choice!
I use Ubuntu ever since 🤓 but don’t tell the arch nerds
Those speakers were great though!
my grandma had those and tgey would predict incoming phone calls
“it’s now safe to turn off your computer”
That’s how old I am
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Fuck
And the power switch was like KA-JUNK when you pushed it, because it was a big ol’ switch that actually physically connected and disconnected the power.
“It’s now safe to turn off your computer” went away after we moved to software power control, where the operating system could signal the power supply to turn off.
I had my computer plugged into a power bar and we’d turn off the power bar to turn off the computer so that we wouldn’t wear out the switch on the computer.
People actually thought you’d have a computer long enough to wear out its power switch.
I knew far, far too many people in HS that just hit the power button without actually shutting it down.
I feel you man. Very nostalgic!
I had a friend who edited the .jpeg or whatever in the shutdown sequence to say “it is NOT safe to shut off your computer” and waited for his family to freak out.
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS ‘park’ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
Yup. Thankfully that “feature” went away real quick and it became automatic.
I’m right there with ya. Don’t forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!
Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "you can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:".
What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.
Yeah, old drives didn’t autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.
I never had to do that, because our computer didn’t have a hard drive. We booted DOS right from the floppy.
Damn, I had a Tandy 1000HX (very much not a 486) and never had to do that. Maybe because, despite having a hard disk, it had DOS on its own ROM.
Cool, I’ve wanted an OS ROM chip since the early nineties, and often wondered why nobody seemed to be doing it. Guess they were all along!
You technically didn’t have to park the old MFM and RLL drives, but if you didn’t, then you just had the drive heads resting on the platters after you shut them down. Then if you bumped or moved the PC at that time, it could scratch the disk like a record. If you never tried to move it, there probably wasn’t much risk.
From the sound of it, the HDD in your Tandy probably would have been an MFM or RLL drive, and depending on the drive model, it either autoparked the drive heads or didn’t. As a PC clone running MS-DOS, the command was probably supported, but maybe not needed. Or you may have just been the equivalent of one of those rebels who held down the power button every time they wanted to shut down the PC and always got away with it!
Is that Windows 95?
Any Windows machine that does not support ACPI or has it disabled. IIRC Windows has required ACPI since Vista.
95/98 and ME/XP to a far lesser extent but it was 98 for me lol
The ole AT power supply standard. Nice.
I had to type “/win” to boot up Windows
Into what did you type that? Wouldn’t something already have to have booted first in order to type it?
This PC booted up in DOS
Dos, windows was just a normal dos program you had to start like anything else until windows 95
And when Win95 booted, you exited into the DOS prompt, the true gaming environment at the time.
MS-DOS
Oh gawd, there are people that don’t know DOS.
FACK…
I know about DOS if that helps? I’m not too far off from having used it though, I bet. I’m 38.
Yeah you have no excuse
I assume MS-DOS.
Images you can hear
I loved the island guy and the bad dog ones. Loved After Dark
My first computer had the following to get a directory listing of a floppy: LOAD”$”,8 That’s how old I am
