“it’s now safe to turn off your computer”
That’s how old I am
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Fuck
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?
Dos, windows was just a normal dos program you had to start like anything else until windows 95
This PC booted up in DOS
MS-DOS
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 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
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.
Entertainment packs 1-4. Chips Challenge, SkiFree, Rodent’s Revenge
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!
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.
I’m this old:
LOAD"*",8,1 SEARCHING FOR * LOADING READY. RUNI am also this old. C64 for life
This taught me many lessons in life, but the one I carry in my heart to this day is piracy.
Did anyone here use the L shift +O shorthand for load? I feel like I never see it mentioned anywhere
I don’t think I ever knew that.
I remember that game, Samantha Fox right?
Yep. ”Samantha Fox Strip Poker”.
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.
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!
I continue to be this old.
Let’s be real - we always assumed that we could hear our parents walking in but there’s no way they didn’t sneak up and check what we were watching once in a while
if they saw the depraved smut I was cranking to I can guarantee my ass would be a paraplegic from the whoopin I would have got.
they didn’t know. they’ll never know.
I’m old enough to remember when the Internet was this for us:
I remember this:
This I remember, also askjeeves, dogpile or something (I think it searched like 30+ different search engines and combined the results)
They’ve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.
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
Turning on the tower with your foot…yeah, that unlocks some memories, lol.
You guys gave guis?
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!
So many games of Spider Solitaire
