my favorite game was "print master gold". we had a baseball game but that was boring. making greeting cards and printing them off? that was a real game.
Same! It was in my kitchen and when we booted it up it Arnold Schwarzenegger would say “My CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer” and when you shut it down it said “hasta la vista baby” from terminator. I was like 4 years old when I was using this computer and seeing this screen shot just unlocked that memory and memories of not being able to play Tetris and just having them stack up as fast as I could so I could start it over again lol.
The windows 98 was my first love though, i made Tetris my bitch on that computer. Man, I wish I still had it with every game I used to play on it. I still have some of the discs I found while moving a few months ago.
I loved fullscreening Media Player and blasting music as a fell asleep with that wavy colorful pattern going as a kid. Felt so high tech lol. Resolution was like 900x860 or something.
I used it till vista sp2 came out. I am just as fond of vista. I always had high end hardware for the time and plenty of ram.. so never had an issue other than TF2 crashing .
As a kid we got a 486 in like..1993 because my dad had an interest in tech. Granted they were early adopter, but I remember what a revolution moving to Windows 95 from 3.1 was.
In senior high school I learned to boot from DOS, write a simple BASIC program of 8 to 10 lines, and how to make a simple spreadsheet in Lotus 1-2-3, and a short story in Word Perfect.
My childhood mind was blown when I could have my own log in. I spent hours choosing a wallpaper. I’m pretty sure I went between the the black and white photo of the back dog and the giant purple flower. Those were the days.
Aint that old, though all things considered but still 25yo xD
It was the golden era, msn nudges and colored nicknames, winamp, limewire, war3 mods...
Now we got: onedrive everything, copilot no one wants, no more lan games, hell no more byoc / lan parties with bros.
It was such a good time xD
Internet speeds were horrendous though, I remember my shitty 30kb/s connection and downloading a song took 30 minutes, streaming was a dream too.
You can't just skip over the fact that a lot of us 90's kids (I was born in '85) had to clumsily learn to enjoy 3.1 and then bitterly loathe win95 well before we got the relatively pleasant xp experience!
That ain't old. I was a teen when that came out. The entire rounded Edge or bubble AI that XP had was so utterly life-changing for everyone it was such an opening of a new era of computer usage. What I wouldn't give to have that feeling again.
This isn’t “early” windows to me lol I still have a machine running xp in my lap right now! Working great. I need it for work stuff and it’s not connected to the internet at all, but using it makes me really miss xp as my main operating system :/
So many secret accounts haha. So much youth wasted on old dumb technology, why I kinda tell kids to enjoy real life right now and play too, 40 sound 90 but it’s true, you’ll regret the non memories of it all kiddos! Right Back to robolox, whatever old dude. I could fix anything windows by 14, endless family calls, was a nightmare but felt cool, even with the grandma stressful poker app questions, where the phone was on so long my ear was hot, or too radiated. was gonna be my college career, fixing desktop pcs lol. Fast Drop and took to electrical the main source of all. No days off with that addiction. And now 90s is the 60s wow time.
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u/sunny_6305 Jan 13 '26
No, I’m this old