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.
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 ... XP, i think?... 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 angry 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+.
Those packets had to march across shitty rural phone lines uphill, both ways! And a storm would throw a tree onto them every 3 weeks!
Pain is your shitty eMachine being so underpowered that the only way you can actually play through HL2 is all settings at minimum, and then also when Alyx is getting teleported out of Kleiner's lab, you have to look at the ground, because the 8 or so particles with bloom that spin around her, + the flashing color negative post processing effect... is too fucking difficult for your moldy, sprouting potato of a pc to run without CTDing or even segfaulting.
Eh... Windows 7 background ain't THAT old. Still the best OS they made.
I remember dialing into bulletin board services to leave chat comments and share small files that would take hours to download.
So many games of Spider Solitaire
Ah yes, the toe remote still works, also for laptops and without even changing batteries.
Meaningless without the context of how old you were at this time. I used and relate to all this stuff!
Knowing what the save icon is and "don't copy that floppy"
Good old Minesweeper and Space Cadet 3D Pinball
My first computer had the following to get a directory listing of a floppy: LOAD”$”,8 That’s how old I am
Ok yeah I’m definitely that old
Huh I can’t hear the meme unmute it please.
I had those exact speakers! Kept using them until a few years ago when one finally died, too.
Let's just say my first computer did not have one of those cup holder trays but my second computer did.
My very first full time job had an 'internet computer'!
Hi, kiddie!
Bahahahaha
Me asf
is this for jerma specifically because of the time he accidentally turned his computer off with his foot
CHAIN "SNAPPER"(edit: guess this reference is too obscure even for Lemmy...)
