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• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Heh, this is brand new software and tech as far as I’m concerned. I remember when the computer did not automatically boot into windows and you had to cd c:\windows and then win.exe.

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  • usernamefactory@lemmy.ca ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    LOAD “*”, 8, 1

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honestly it feels new to me too. I just thought the meme would spark some nostalgia for all us old(er) people who like to complain about the youngsters

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    • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Heh, the days when the six 3.5" floppies of Wing Commander was a huge install and often required a hard disk clean out.

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “it’s now safe to turn off your computer”

  That’s how old I am

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  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I knew far, far too many people in HS that just hit the power button without actually shutting it down.

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  • Grabthar@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "yoi 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.

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    • ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m right there with ya. Don’t forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yup. Thankfully that “feature” went away real quick and it became automatic.

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  • Zoldyck@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had to type “/win” to boot up Windows

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Into what did you type that? Wouldn’t something already have to have booted first in order to type it?

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel you man. Very nostalgic!

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is that Windows 95?

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Any Windows machine that does not support ACPI or has it disabled. IIRC Windows has required ACPI since Vista.

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      95/98 and ME/XP to a far lesser extent but it was 98 for me lol

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  • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The ole AT power supply standard. Nice.

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• Gurei@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Random tangent, my dad edited the system image that contained that message to “It is not safe to turn off your computer” when I was like 5 and it kinda fucked me up for a bit.

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• frunch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m old enough to remember when the Internet was this for us:Image

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    They’ve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.

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• LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Win7 isn’t that old.

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • elvith@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Images you can hear

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• einlander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • dwemthy@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Entertainment packs 1-4. Chips Challenge, SkiFree, Rodent’s Revenge

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    • cazssiew@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh man, I found chip’s challenge again a few years back (it took forever because I couldn’t remember the name) but I totally forgot about rodent’s revenge!

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  • DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Flashback

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      1: You a veteran?

      2: Yes. No. I don’t wanna talk about it.

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      Camera zooms in on 2, fades to montage:

      MiG 21 thundering overhead at tree top levels, while blasting ‘Hush’, which is being comically raised in pitch to squeaking chipmunk levels as it approaches, and then instantly downshifts by two octaves into quaalude voice after it passes overhead.

      squad is slowly advancing through Hue with no resistance thus far… and then suddenly, from 3 different directions, VC on mopeds, blasting ‘Surfin Bird’ and headbanging maniacally, rapidly approach the unit… 2 are shot, but one makes it through, moped detonates with the force of 4 bundles of TNT

      … rocket pod armed mi8s and hueys pieroutting around each other in the sky, throwing unguided rockets everywhere, taking out ground bound friend and foe alike, both ultimately running out if ammo and then crashing into the ground sideways and upside down…

      Camera pops back to 2, slowly zooms out.

      2: … I don’t wanna talk about it.

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  • Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was going to say!

    The OP was using the fancy new icons…

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  • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can install and run v3.1 in DosBox. In case anyone wanted to keep using it.

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• Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I couldn’t even tell you what my background is.

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• dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “.” ,8,1

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    • Beldarofremulak@discuss.online ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well if this is a competition for who can find old computer images im im

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    • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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      …we had the 4016 with an external tape drive: not quite as much geek-cred as the 2001, but still respectable…

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    • dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mine was a TI 99/4a. Texas Instruments ‘computer’ of the same generation.

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  • Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ayyy childhood

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    • dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Green Screen!

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• Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, I’m in my early 40s and I’ve started with ms-dos. According to this meme what am I? A fucking dinosaur? Am I that old?

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same, but then you severely undersold how old you are. Like, where’s the Space Cadet, at least?

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  • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gorillas.bas

    Nibbles.bas

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  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nah, old(er) people would boot directly to a BASIC editor.

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  • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember playing a hotseat game with my friend and his brothers ( I think heroes of might and magic 2) and I accidentally big toed the power button, just like in this picture 😅

    Everyone was pretty gutted, although we then found out that autosave happened every turn, what a releif.

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  • neox_@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m in my late 20s and started with ms-dos too. And even tried OS/2 to check I wasn’t missing something before upgrading to 3.1 then XP 😂

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  • RedditAdminsSuckIt@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We were born in the 80s. But people around me that are younger like to say I was born in the 1900s to make me feel extra special

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• cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Millennials are now “old” by internet standards, so Gen X and older are positively ancient.

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    • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • lemmyknow@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok, boomer

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• slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I once knew a woman who used cut up punch cards as spacers when rolling joints.

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• Grimtuck@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • menjoo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I myself was a Norton commander enjoyer

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Man, I am even older than this.

  Multiple times I was disconnected in the middle of a Starcraft match over our 56k modem… because my dad was getting a goddamned fax sent to him over the same line.

  These are all fancy pants, high res icons compared to Win 95 and 98.

  Now excuse me while I teleport back in time and jack back in to the Matrix Online beta via an actual telephone line… we didn’t even get DSL untill a year or two after it fully released.

  Going fully old man mode:

  You whippersnappers have absolutely no clue what pain is.

  Pain is playing Battlefield 1942 on a 56k modem with literally zero servers you can connect to being under 150 ping, the vast majority of them being 200, 300+.

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  • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you’re like 40. There are people here who played Maze War.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      About half a decade younger than that, just picked up pc gaming as a hobby at a young age.

      But yes, I know that there are many significantly older gamer folks / tech dorks here on lemmy… but there are also now a lot of Gen Z folks, and even some Gen A… who just actually did not ever experience the ‘pre-internet’ era at all.

      It gets difficult for me to manage my age perception whiplash at times.

      I apparently look young enough that people irl, only 10 years older than me (or less) still refer to me as ‘a bright young man with my whole future ahead of me’, as if I’m in my early 20s… while people 10 years younger than me refer to me as an ancient elder gamer online, and irl, once I tell them my actual age, oh now I’m an uncle, I’m an old man.

      ??? confused millenial noises ???

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• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m this old: Image

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• TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I continue to be this old.

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• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  Shit, I’m old…

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• A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A:>

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• solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I am Reversi Hearts Freecell Solitaire Minesweeper 3d pinball for windows old.

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• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I remember dialing into bulletin board services to leave chat comments and share small files that would take hours to download.

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• heavy@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Knowing what the save icon is and “don’t copy that floppy”

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• Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Meaningless without the context of how old you were at this time. I used and relate to all this stuff!

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• Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma/

  win7games.com/#games

  thank me l8r

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• glorptex@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I need someone do this with XP

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