āitās now safe to turn off your computerā
Thatās how old I am
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Fuck
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āitās now safe to turn off your computerā
Thatās 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 olā switch that actually physically connected and disconnected the power.
āItās now safe to turn off your computerā 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 weād turn off the power bar to turn off the computer so that we wouldnāt wear out the switch on the computer.
People actually thought youād 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.
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS āparkā command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
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.
Iām right there with ya. Donāt forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!
Yup. Thankfully that āfeatureā went away real quick and it became automatic.
I had to type ā/winā to boot up Windows
Into what did you type that? Wouldnāt something already have to have booted first in order to type it?
I feel you man. Very nostalgic!
Is that Windows 95?
95/98 and ME/XP to a far lesser extent but it was 98 for me lol
The ole AT power supply standard. Nice.
Random tangent, my dad edited the system image that contained that message to āIt is not safe to turn off your computerā when I was like 5 and it kinda fucked me up for a bit.
Theyāve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.
Win7 isnāt that old.
Images you can hear
Entertainment packs 1-4. Chips Challenge, SkiFree, Rodentās Revenge
Oh man, I found chipās challenge again a few years back (it took forever because I couldnāt remember the name) but I totally forgot about rodentās revenge!
1: You a veteran?
2: Yes. No. I donāt wanna talk about it.
Camera zooms in on 2, fades to montage:
MiG 21 thundering overhead at tree top levels, while blasting āHushā, 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 āSurfin Birdā 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 downā¦
Camera pops back to 2, slowly zooms out.
2: ⦠I donāt wanna talk about it.
I was going to say!
The OP was using the fancy new iconsā¦
You can install and run v3.1 in DosBox. In case anyone wanted to keep using it.
Somehow Iām using the default wallpaper on both w10 and android since Iām older, I just donāt care anymore while before it used to be very important lol
Yeah, I couldnāt even tell you what my background is.
ā.ā ,8,1
Mine was a TI 99/4a. Texas Instruments ācomputerā of the same generation.
Ayyy childhood
Green Screen!
I mean, Iām in my early 40s and Iāve started with ms-dos. According to this meme what am I? A fucking dinosaur? Am I that old?
Same, but then you severely undersold how old you are. Like, whereās the Space Cadet, at least?
Gorillas.bas
Nibbles.bas
Nah, old(er) people would boot directly to a BASIC editor.
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 š
Everyone was pretty gutted, although we then found out that autosave happened every turn, what a releif.
Iām in my late 20s and started with ms-dos too. And even tried OS/2 to check I wasnāt missing something before upgrading to 3.1 then XP š
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
Whatās 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 āturtleā (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 āturtleā (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 Iād long forgotten the specifics. Thank you! This is exactly it.
Millennials are now āoldā by internet standards, so Gen X and older are positively ancient.
Iām 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 didnāt even have a hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives, and also ran DOS. Weād 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. Iād say this draws the line for old at the older part of Gen Z. Millennials arenāt even on the scale.
Ok, boomer
I once knew a woman who used cut up punch cards as spacers when rolling joints.
I myself was a Norton commander enjoyer
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 didnāt 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+.
youāre like 40. There are people here who played Maze War.
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 āpre-internetā 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 āa bright young man with my whole future ahead of meā, as if Iām 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 Iām an uncle, Iām an old man.
??? confused millenial noises ???
A:>
I am Reversi Hearts Freecell Solitaire Minesweeper 3d pinball for windows old.
I remember dialing into bulletin board services to leave chat comments and share small files that would take hours to download.
Knowing what the save icon is and ādonāt copy that floppyā
Meaningless without the context of how old you were at this time. I used and relate to all this stuff!
I need someone do this with XP
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca āØ5ā© āØhoursā© ago
Heh, this is brand new software and tech as far as Iām concerned. I remember when the computer did not automatically boot into windows and you had to cd c:\windows and then win.exe.
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca āØ45ā© āØminutesā© ago
LOAD ā*ā, 8, 1
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world āØ5ā© āØhoursā© 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
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca āØ54ā© āØminutesā© 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.