General tech/internet nostalgia thread

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>implying this wasnt the GOAT windows OS.

>>45789361
isn't*

>it was either this, the maze or pipes.

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>>45789459
forgot pic

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>>45789389
>Vinyl records
>nostalgia

>>45789464
>nostalgia
>2001 at earliest
fuck of le 90's kid

>>45789489

wat

the flying through space screen saver was in 3.1

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>>45789464

>not using the GOAT of screen savers

>>45789489
>he only knows the starfield as a screensaver in windows xp
Get a load of this pleb
>>45789760
I still use johnny castaway on my 486

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>3dfx
>the way it used to be played


i wonder just how better the GPU market would be if 3dfx still existed and not lost its shit and gone bankrupt.

>>45789760
this

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>tfw i wish i could have geocities back.
>tfw not even angelfire sites come up on the first few pages of google anymore.

>>45789464
>block the middle with your finger
>warp 9 engaged

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>>45790199

>i miss the old youtube layout.

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>>45790285
>improperly named and tagged mp3s

>>45790347
you, never used napster?

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I miss viruses and botnets.

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>>45790418

i miss the days when viruses and malware were simple and only wanted to destroy your computer.
At least they were easy to deal with and remove

Is their a linux skin like this?

>>45789837
It would have just made GPU buying easier since we would then have 3 launch cycles a year.

>>45789489

You know people born in the nineties are 24 now you shitforbrains

>>45789837
what actually happened to 3dfx? I still have my voodoo2 somehwer

>>45790593
you mean 1990

>>45790611

Basically they lost their shit trying tou kill Nvidia while Nvidia sat back and kek'd.

3dfx's business model was shit also. instead of releasing 1 top shelf card and a few budget cards, they released 1 top shelf card and that was it. meaning if you wanted a 3dfx card, you had to pay a bunch of money, while nvidia had a ton of budget-tier cards for only slightly less performance.

Basically 3dfx put all its eggs in one basket with each release.

>>45790593
>tfw born in the 70's

>>45790684
I curse the day I was born. . .

>>45789489
I had that screensaver back in '94 nimrod

>>45790676
Oh damn. HAving two parties as the only source of Gpu or anything really is always a harmful thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXLeipTiTzU

>>45790711
Makes price fixing and technology shelving/trickling easier. Just ask AMDtel

>>45790768


Except AMD has never been fined a billion dollars for price fixing

>>45789334

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVjLt_QHL8

>>45790768
AMD doesnt price fix though and intel uses heaps of dirty tactics (illegal ones at that)

>>45790842
>>45790792
It was a reference to collusion between heads at Intel & AMD, and AMD & nvidia, you kooky kids

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0&app=desktop

>>45791126
I remember when new Pcs and equipment came with a pretty heavy operation manual, and you were required to know shit about computers before you started.

Now it seems they are more powerful, and made for a simple minded users, so it is possible to use tech despite being tech illiterate. That, in my opinion, only made the gap between the average users, and a computer expert much more wider to the point it resembles the grand canyon.

>>45791165

it has certainly introduced people to computers who have zero business being around them in the first place.

>>45791126

is there any reason, any at all to ever use dial up again?

>other than power outage given the phone lines always on.

>>45791386

Rural areas.
I set up dial-up for a family member in Montana recently.
The only other option was satellite which was out of his price range and had too high of a ping rate.

>>45791434
What's the max speed a dial-up connection can have?

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I loved this so much

>>45789472

You need to check your eyes anon

>>45789824

Good game. My gf loves it

>>45791520

He's using a 56 kbps (kilobits per second) modem but he's getting only 42 kbps on average.
Some dial-up providers offer page-caching services that help a lot and I think it's possible to combine multiple dial-up lines for greater speed. I'm not sure what the max possible speed for dial-up is though.

>>45791520
the max you can connect at is 53.3
this is set by the FCC (in the US, dunno about other countries)
unless the line you are using is in pristine condition, then you might get 56.

but the reason for this is any faster, and you start affecting actual voice communication

>>45789372
> Correcting grammar on 4chan
This.

>>45791618
watching_porn_for_the_first_time.jpg

>>45791637
how has lesbian pr0n not been shooped onto that monitor yet

>>45791527
look up midnight commander you simpering twat

>>45791637
why would there be porn on the monitor? In 91 nobody had Internet access you fucking morons

>>45791722
What is cd porn?

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Remember when installing video games in DOS, you had to actually select your sound driver and IRQ numbers?

>>45791630
if you look really closely, that was not a grammar correction

>>45791753
>1991
>cdrom
yeah sure

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>>45790199
>8 years
>only 94000 views

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My childhood right here.

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>>45791610
>Yes, this in an actual PC game screenshot
oh god my sides
it reminds me of the picture of the street legal 1GHz CPU
someone that has it post it pls

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>>45791765
Holy shit... I remember installing Mario with this bad boy :'D

>>45791610
>3D Accelerator
Those were the days

waiting for someone to put thepiratebay site :^)

>>45791883

What? What Mario are you referring to?

>>45791126
I still have two of those USR modems I got when Linux didn't have much Winmodem support.

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>>45791683

>>45791936
what game is that

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>>45791936

>>45790199
what year exactly did youtube community go to shit? now it's filled to the brim with really fucking edgy kids or kids posting stupid unfunny jokes involving the likes/dislikes or something similar to that, or they're complaining about current youtube. Even /b/ has a better community than modern youtube.

>>45791599
You could combine dialup lines when available, which wasn't common for residential use.
Download managers were vital. When I was in Korea in 1999 Kunsan AB only had dialup in the dorms so dat mean using download managers and hoping you stayed connected. Made downloading Linux .isos a joy...

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>>45791618
>>45791637
>>45791683

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>>45791966
>>45791958

>>45791966
this is how everyone is when they first come to
4chan. A large amount of excitement and wonder followed by disappointment and misery.

>>45792029
I remember when I first visited a YLYL threadon /b/
shit was hilarious

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>>45791882

>>45792216
>>45792241

Supercomputermind

>>45792241
Wait, you actually have that IRL?

>>45792241
show me the pages where this is discussed

>>45791618
look at the kid on the couch, he blazed it too hard

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>>45792294
I posted it to /g/ originally.

>>45792298
1/2

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>>45792396
2/2

there are more pages

>>45792396
Too bad more GHz doesn't mean more speed today. We've been stuck on 3 for more than 10 years now...

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>>45792294
>not owning old PC mags
stay pleb

>>45792696
But anon, I wasn't even an idea at that point

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>>45792720
I still have my first gaymen mag from Feb 1990

>>45792758
How old are you grandpa?

>>45792771
36

>>45791963
i'd say around 2007, right after google bought youtube, and youtube began to serve as the centralized area for all things video.

also, i believe facebook started its meteoric rise around this point, coupled with youtube support, well, you can see the results today.

>>45792696

you have no idea how badly i want to get my hands on physical copies of PC magazine, and computer shopper from the 90s.

>>45791630
Changing to isn't means it STILL is the greatest, not WAS.

Does anyone here still use Usenet?

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>>45789334
Muh first puter

Remember when 4chan was good?

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>>45793315
tfw my dad wanted to throw everything out because I had moved out

I was born in 1996

>>45791880
>Xbox
>nostalgia
Go away child.

>>45790470
agree

>>45791908
One or two mario games came to pc. I remember about a Yoshi one

>>45793549
Mario is missing for DOS

>>45793512
I'm actually 18, so yeah..

>>45789334
AOL 4.0 came out in 1998 when 56k modems were ubiquitous, and the splash screen didn't have that big text on it.

>>45793640
Exactly. Go away child.

>>45793681

>being this autistic.

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>>45793761
>I was a Junior in HS when the dot-com bubble burst.
>i remember nothing of it because no one i knew talked about it nor was it talked about in the school news or channel 1 news.
>i didnt watch mainstream news then.

Kinda pissed that whole cluster fuck passed right under me considering i was taking a marketing class (DECA) and the teacher missed the most perfect opprotunity to cover venture capitalists, stocks, and bubbles.

>>45791963

2006-07. Same time as when vidya became an industry and the Internet truly became mainstream.

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>>588124278
All of these games are nostalgia to me. Juat packed them down the other day.

Heroes 3: Shadow Of Death was the first game I saw and really wanted in a game store.
Might and Magic VIII was the game that got me collecting.
Heroes 3 mapmaking is something I still do, Heroes 3 was the first burnt game we got, and the first game I played like crazy.

>>45793292
2007 is when everything went to shit. It was right before the economic collapse. Big Bang Theory airs on TV. Facebook, YouTube, iPhone and other garbage. Not only that, but in my own personal life everything went to shit. It was the year I dropped out of high school because of all the bullying. My relationships went to hell and I lost all my friends. I became suicidal and spent a few days at a psychiatric facility. It was the year my Depression kicked in full blown. I consider 2007 to be the start of the dark era of my life. The fact that not only my personal life and mental health went to shit, but technology did as well is just further proof that 2007 was the true turning point. Oh sure, you can find references to things being bad before them. Feminism was around before then and game companies were trying to screw customers earlier than that too. But it was 2007 when these things really skyrocketed and the terribleness of everything increased at a exponential rate.

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>>45793813

>big PC game boxes.

?mfw

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>muh kool desktop

>>45793836
1: yes. 2007 could be marked as the year the web went batshit insane commercialized
2: harden the fuck up, stop being a pussy. Boo hoo, you got bullied in HS, so did I. I manned the fuck up, told myself only 2 more years of this shit, and made it.
3:/g/ is not your personal therapist
4:the mobile industry IMO, is single handedly raping the web. mobile online only promotes social media.

>>45791520
dialup often has a lower latency in directly dialing another pc rather than running through an isp. some gamers still use it for this reason.

>>45791753
childbirth on encarta if i remember.

>>45793761
>point anything out, trying to educate
>autism
You must be black.

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>>45793838
Oh god yes. Like these babies! Special and Limited Edition. One includes a figure and one has like cloth maps and all this cool stuff!

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>>45793813
And these babies are also nostalgic and from my collection

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>there will never be another ZONE.com

im honestly surprised no one has even attempted to recreate Gamespy arcade, Heat.net, Zone, or Mplayer.

you would think given the success, and the demand for some easy way of playing old PC games without having to use hamachi or some other arcaic way to connect, someone would have at least emulated it.

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Best game ever made

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I remember when i first inserted this disc into my x2 dvd-rom...

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>>45793813
>physical PC games

Shame that Steam has practically just killed that market outright. The one upside though is you will never have to worry about shit like Starforce or SecuROM again.

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>>45794170
>not OEM version

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>>45794088
yup, lol.

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>>45794189
This game right here was a fucking final boss fight to pirate.

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>the smart phone killed AIM/Yahoo/MSN/ICQ/Pidgin/etc.

>>45793956
ah, shiiiit, i loved that game.

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>>45793836

>>45794189
I love physical games... Any time possible I get the collector editions of shit. However, digital copies has their upsides too!

>>45794242
ICQ still exists.

>>45793877
>4:the mobile industry IMO, is single handedly raping the web. mobile online only promotes social media.
How extremely true is that... I'm fairly young, born in '91, but I remember a bit of the PSTN era and a more pure internet in general. I guess me living in a backward ass country where everything seems to come with a delay was a factor in that too.

The biggest mindfuck for me is the fact that people who spent time online back then were sometimes considered creeps, outcasts by the mainstream population, yet nowadays it's considered totally cool to waste time on fb, twitter and other networks just because the concept of 'socializing' is thrown around.

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>>45792696
>>45792758
>>45793315
>>45793449

does anyone know where one might acquire old PC mags?

>>45789881
Holy shit the nostalgia.

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>>45794088
>>45794221
muh lba

>>45794290
>people who spent time online back then were sometimes considered creeps, outcasts by the mainstream population

this happens with nearly all geek/nerd things
>arcades in the 80s
>gaymen in the 90s
>computers in the late 90s
>internet mid 2000s
>programming now

i think the only thing that is still considered socially awkward is DnD, and even that is starting to make its turn toward mainstream with the new rulesets.

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>>45794326
Nice. I've got mine from a collection set, so it didn't come with a box

>>45794189
>Shame that Steam has practically just killed that market outright.
I guess that's the only legitimate downside of Steam. As a kid I didn't get to buy games in those big boxes, cause I started late, with a PS1 and got my first pc years later, but I specifically remember seeing the games at store walls or in reviews of magazines and fantasizing about playing them, what games they were etc based on the cover or 1-2 screenshots. It was a shit back then. I remember though, that physical cases got smaller even before steam got big. I guess part of that was due to a bigger market, which meant higher demand and publishers had to cut costs. I guess in a few years music albums will be a thing of the past and will replace present vinyl. That will be funny.

>>45794336
Only that now, "geek" is considered cool and even a style, even if most people follow a distorted definition of it. Apart from that, is programming really considered so lame in current time? Back in the early days, I guess it did, but now I don't really think it does.

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some hardware nostalgia

>>45792241
Probably my most memorable processor/pc upgrade this; the heat sink came with two 60mm fans; it was so loud and vibrated so badly you can only imagine.
It was also when that earthquake hit Japan and ram prices exploded; 128mb cost £130.

Was the friggin' days though, none of this bios overclocking nonsense... This was crazy ass butt clenching jumper settings on the motherboard madness

>>45790593
what am i doing with my life

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>>45794628
>turbo button

My friend of African descent.

>>45794696
isn't everyone of African descent

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saw this thread and knew i had something for it. did some rummaging in an old box and found this..

>>45794628
I had that exact case.

whoops, just posted: >>45794709 and then saw:

>>45794170
>>45794212

win95 master race. right on, guys!

>>45794701
Preach it

>>45789760
HOLYSHIT AS KID I WAS LITERALLY WATCHING THIS
AYY

>>45794628
I still don't get it to this day, was the turbo button like a method of overclocking?

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my work laptop from 2003. got the thing in 2001, used it for work until 2005, then kept it and it finally died in 2011. i dont care what people say about compaq, mine lasted forever. also, so did the altec lansing speakers.

>>45791561
>gf
get the fuck outta here normie

>>45791599
It's called shotgunning, basically you have two modems and two lines and run them as one.

>muh cdrom
one c64 game and two amiga classic from 89

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>>45794221
>>45794326

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Feels. Trolled so many people in those chat rooms.

>>45794781
Underclocking.
Some badly-written programs which use CPU cycles for timing don't function as intended when using a processor with a higher than expected clcok rate. The turbo button toggles a lower cycle rate, so such legacy programs can be used.

>>45792216
>It's a FREAKING SUPERCOMPUTER on a single chip

Anyone read that in Vince's voice?

>>45794904
zou dont know wat zou talking about idiot

it speeds the cpu from 10 mhz to 33 mhz

>>45791605
Incorrect. Max theoretical is 64Kbps because an ISDN voice line is 8 bit 8khz. For whatever reason the V.92 standard reserves 8Kbps for overhead.>>45791610

>>45794904
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_DX4

for example on the DX4-100 turbo would switch between 25mhz and 100mhz (1x or 4x multiplier)

>>45794952
actually it's 33x3 or 2x50 for the dx4-100

Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be...

>>45794887
>The icon for the MS Image Composer is 画, T/N 画 means picture in Japanese
Well, fuck.

>>45794996
Is this some meta-nostalgia?

>>45793757
>Being a 19 year-old autist
Damn you faggots are insufferable

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>>45791618
If i was in middle school, girl in pink & black would be my waifu.

>>45793420
We had those in intermediate school. I remember on the last day of class, someone brought in some maze shooter game, and they plugged a speaker into the cassette port for sound. The concept of that blew my mind.

>>45794170
i just noticed i wrote dvd-rom like an idiot.
i meant cd-rom, of course.

>>45791966
Careful!
He does it for free

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>>45790285
Audio Galaxy was better

>>45793738
My ex-wife still uses Lycos Mail. She's been using it for so long, she's fucking stuck with it now.

>>45794628

>that key

Now I want to start my computer by turning a key

>>45793967
Is that a Bug?

>>45795388
WHOA! Completely forgot about that for ages, had a nostalgia brain spasm. Spanks

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>>45794226

>>45794189

No, now you just have shit like UPlay and GFWL to worry about (fortunately the latter's dead).

>>45794242
It was facebook

>>45796470
Woah and the smartphones killing facebook woah!

>>45796504
What kills smartphones?

>>45796641
better smartphones.

>>45795560
man, i would spend hours on that program back in my 56k days.

>>45790199
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY45YOaXwVk

that's actually my old screenshot.

>>45796641
Dead lithium batteries that are impossible to replace, or software updates. Now that Apple can remotely disable any iDevice, want to bet what happens when they release a new OS that won't run on your old and busted iPhone 5?

eDonkey and grabbing random prawnz. Wondering who the fuck this r@ygold dude is. OHSHI...

Discover boot and nuke that very day.

>>45796700
I meant the smartphone race

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>dat orange plasma glow

>>45795388
Nothing was better than Napster for audio downloads back when Napster was in its heyday. Everything else I tried just didn't have the obscure stuff that I could find on Napster.

>>45789459
pipes were goat

>>45792057
I guarantee you it wasn't

>>45794242
Anyone have the message received .mp3 to download as a notification tone?

>>45794292
F

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>>45794034
gameranger
it doesn't have a huge lobby for games though, just seperate rooms.

>>45791865
Valaki itt nagyon Magyar :>

>>45794628
>that cpu speed timer

my dick is rock hard for some reason.

>>45791618
>that one alpha kid with the mullet who gets the seat every time and chooses what software the crew loads up

you know he smashed that pussy raw when his boy hit the chronic too hard

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OC here.

>>45794820

Kek. Stay calm aspie and cry me a river, autistic fag.

>>45798077
>gamespy

fuck these niggers

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>>45789334
this bullshit game

>>45796916
Was it literally the worst YLYL so far?

>>45796926
Zedge

>>45794292
I threw away about ten years worth of PC World magazines starting around 97/98 about a month ago, so the landfill in the shitty county next to mine has a bunch of them.

cybersex on AOL circa 1994

>those feels

>>45790041

>2014
>needing a community web page

Just not reason for them to exist any more.

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>>45799093

>>45794628
I had one of those

My dick is diamonds

>>45791561
> having a gf
get a load of this pleb

>>45798283
You realize that you are making fun of 95% of the board you are on right now?

>>45791126
I remember when I was a kid I put some electrical shit together and connected a phone to it and it made dial up sounds

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>>45789464

>Had a toy spaceship
>Held that in front of the monitor while this screensaver was going
>Best 5 hours of my childhood ever, even after all the neglect and bullying

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Any of y'all remember these? Not regular computers, but pure word processor computers? My family had one.

>>45800435
>having a weak penis

Fuck that, I love when a girl sucks me off twice or more without stopping.

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>>45791618

>>45800477
I can remember many purpose built PCs. Even up until "recently" when my grandmother gave me a computer that ONLY had a web browser, and really couldn't do anything else. I didn't really ever try to fool with it to make it do more. I am pretty sure it was a Compaq from about 8 or 9 years ago.

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>>45791966
Why would /a/ be so hyped? Those are 3D girls.

>>45794242
Texting for certain killed the conversational email.

>>45794628
>That turbo button
>That key

ARE YOU READY TO UNLEASH THE FUCKING SPEED?!

>>45800480

>implying you've been sucked off period.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doms-hzGPYA

>>45789472
lol seriously dude?

>>45793798
This happened to me with a lot of shit that I should be knowledgeable about/was of age when it happened. It sucks being in the camp with youngfags on some shit because I didn't pay attention to any of it at the time.

It's like the opposite of those fags that say "I grew up poor and didn't have new things, so I know what VHS and NES are like!"

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>>45793870

>>45792423
We have? The Pentium G3258 and 8-core FX chips do 4.0 easily with stock coolers you know.

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>>45794170
>>45794212
>>45794730

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>>45794292

>>45793956
on miniclip right!
whats the name of the game, please say.

remember that helicopter game where you would shoot endless waves of helicopters.

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I might as well

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stare at it for days, remember the pain

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This is litteraly the best thread on /g/ i've ever seen. These are the threads I always thought I would encounter on /g/, not shill posts, muhblephonethreads or new tech shit.

Thank you based anons.

>>45802863
Everyone loves some good old nostalgia.

>>45802351
>tfw file contents change and defragmentation restarts

>>45801427
Ask your mom I guess. She will be able to confirm that most married men have been sucked off at least once.

>>45802863
nostalgia threads seem to be hit or miss.

some days i can put up a nostalgia thread and only 10 replies
others it can last 3 days and hit the image limit

>>45802321
Motha fuckin Ski Free!
Just trying to remember how many times I
got fucked up by admins for playing this at
school.

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:'( fuck i love it

>>45791165
>>45791293
>christmas 2014
>can easily stream Christmas movies and music thanks to mom's Chromecast
>grandma can skype my cousin who lives in Australia on her laptop
>young cousins happily play minecraft instead of running around everywhere and getting in the way while we're cooking
>autistic neckbeard from /g/ bursts in
>"Y-Y-YOU PEOPLE HAVE ZERO B-BUSINESS BEING AROUND THEM COMPUTERS!"

>>45803208
sounds like a ball
my family is all dead cuz I'm old and shit

>>45803208
Forgot to add:
>grandfather used to be an electriction installing business computers in the 60s and 70s
>has had computers at home since late 70s
>introduced me to gaming
>taught me to program

>>45791610
>one million Atari E.T. cartridges
To think that we finally know the answer after so many years.

>>45794730
I used to Bring out my windows 95 computer as late as 2007-2008 just to play my childhood games...

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>>45795405
Yea it is! I can't remember how the fuck these could be so good to play at!

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>used a Zire 31 PDA all the time in school
>other kids would get in trouble for playing a Game Boy, while no one stopped me from using this to play games

In retrospect, the teachers probably felt sorry for me.

>>45802351

http://defragger.info/

It just isn't the same.

>>45796641
water

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>>45792423
this is stock

>>45793436
4chan_was_never_good.jpg

>>45803607
>Muh corez


but seriously, that's a nice processor.

>>45791610
I still have that mag.

>>45803500
I still have that one. It doesn't start anymore but I have one. It was an awesome device.

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>>45794696
>>45794717
>>45794781
>>45795397
>>45797876
>>45799925
>>45800657

nice piece of history right here

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TURBO button in action ...

>>45793892
I replay this game at least once every 3 years

>>45803985
That's 33 girls you can get to show their boobs on the AOL chatrooms. That's 33 noobs you can frag in a second in Doom. That's 33 emails you can send to President Clinton asking him to shove his sax up his ass on live tv in a minute.

Fucking
step
it
up
other computers.

>>45805697
damn, that's pretty fucking 90's.

>>45793419
Sure. alt.bin* are still alive and kicking.
Also rec.humor.funny.