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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago⁊ by ⁨ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world⁊ to ⁨[deleted]⁊

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

    That’s how old I am

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    Fuck

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    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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    • Zoldyck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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    • Grabthar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      I feel you man. Very nostalgic!

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    • boughtmysoul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      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.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      Is that Windows 95?

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      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      The ole AT power supply standard. Nice.

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

    Win7 isn’t that old.

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  • einlander@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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    • Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      I was going to say!

      The OP was using the fancy new icons…

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    • dwemthy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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      • cazssiew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      Flashback

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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    • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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  • Gurei@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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    • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      It’s not safe to turn off your computer.
      There are enemies nearby.

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  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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      • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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    • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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    • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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    • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      Gorillas.bas

      Nibbles.bas

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    • RedditAdminsSuckIt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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  • dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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      • Beldarofremulak@discuss.online ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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      • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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      • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

        “.” ,8,1

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    • Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      Ayyy childhood

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      • dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

        Green Screen!

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  • slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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    mine

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    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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  • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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      • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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 ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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    • lemmyknow@lemmy.today ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      Ok, boomer

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

    I’m this old: Image

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    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago
      LOAD"*",8,1

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      • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

        We had multiple games on our floppies. All pirated and with miles of paper printouts showing which games were kn which floppy.

        I think we had two legitimately bought games.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      I still remember using Windows machine for the first time after only having a Commodore 64 and Nintendos. I specifically remember thinking it was dumb because it didn’t have a cartridge slot.

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      • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

        Haha! Now USB ports are sort of cartridge ports. Although I haven’t see a lot of software distributed on USB, there are some products.

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    • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      I am also this old. C64 for life

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    • Lootboblin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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      • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

        I remember that game, Samantha Fox right?

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    • Grabthar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      This taught me many lessons in life, but the one I carry in my heart to this day is piracy.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

      We actually had a C 128. But we always booted into C 64 mode because that had all the good games.

      The only 128 game we had was some super complicated stealth bomber flight simulator. The manual was cool though.

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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    Shit, I’m old…

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  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

    I continue to be this old.

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

    Eh… Windows 7 background ain’t THAT old. Still the best OS they made.

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  • A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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  • Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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  • Grimtuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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  • cuteness@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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    The standard 5” floppy. The best part was putting down the arm on the drive.

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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  • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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

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  • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

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  • Penny7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

    Turning on the tower with your foot…yeah, that unlocks some memories, lol.

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  • bufalo1973@europe.pub ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

    This is my level of old

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  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ 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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  • glorptex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

    I need someone do this with XP

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  • iamjackflack@lemm.ee ⁨3⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

    You guys gave guis?

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