Favourite tech related memories

>doubling your ram to 256MB and be able to listen an mp3 AND browse the web or write a document

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>>56817621
>XP to Vista

>installing my first video card (voodoo 3 2000)
>owned everyone playing Half-Life Deathmatch on inferior hardware

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>booting up BeOS for the first time during the Win98 days.

>>56817696
Hey yeah I remember that. Fuck you man you kept killing me you stupid sack of shit

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>>56817621
The 'turbo' key

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>my own computer in my own room

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discover sukebei.nyaa for the first time

>>56817773
Turbo key had my back going in to maximum overdrive playing Descent or Piranha.

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>computer in own room
>turning on a PC the first time after putting it together
>experiencing anything faster than dial-up for the very first time
>experiencing the boot time of my PC after I installed my OS on a SSD for the first time

>playing sega genesis on my computer for the first time

>>56817621
AND I FEEL

>Upgrading from a Riva TNT2 to a Voodoo 5
>Rebooting in DOS mode late at night to play Three Sisters' Story

>Be me
>Be 5
>Dad buys our first computer
>Windows 95
>Spend hours every day playing Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem and eventually GTA with Dad
>Feels good man

>Be me
>Be 10
>Broadband internet is the new hotness
>Look up nude pictures of Pam Anderson when parents are out
>Dad angrily calls me into the computer room
>He and Mom are there
>He shows me search history
>Oops
>Mom looks disgusted
>Dad stares me straight in the eye and says "Popup ads, right son?"
>"Right Dad."
>Mom looks relieved (did she want me to be a fag?)
>Dad knows what's up
>From that day forward things were different between me and my father.
>Feels good man

>Be me
>Be 15
>Relationship with Dad is super rocky
>Rebellious phase, plus he's kind of an asshole with psych issues
>Still, when he gets his new computer he gives me his old one
>I know have my very own computer in my room.
>Feels good man

>Be me
>Be 20
>Building first computer
>Dad is skeptical and wants to handle it for me
>Dad always buys his computers from chinks who charge way too much
>Fuck that
>Build it myself anyway
>Dad is impressed
>Brags about me to his gaming buddies
>Feels good man

>Be me
>Be 25
>Dad wants a new computer
>He comes to me
>Asks me to build him a top of the line gaming rig
>I pick the parts and order them
>(Being able to buy 'the good stuff' is so satisfying).
>We build it together, father and son
>He pays me a shitload of money for the work
>Few weeks later
>Rig is incomplete
>No GPU yet, waiting for Pascal
>Make plans for over the top shit like a custom loop and SLI 1080s
>Our very rocky relationship is being healed by a shared passion for extravagant gaming computers
>Feels good man

>>56818232
i envy you
i never have that kind of relationship with my dad
we both are socially awkward person

>Accidentally finding out about cracks&serialz

>>56818232
I envy you not just for the relationship but for having a dad who plays vidya

My dad's only hobbies are reading trashy fiction, yardwork, and sleeping through football games on TV

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>>56817621
>playing Super Mario 64 with a Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad and a SM64-only full speed emulator called Corn from www.emulator-zone.com while my neighbor had a N64

>>56818360
>running sm64 on a barely-faster-than-an-n64 P166
Corn was good stuff

>installing Linux Mandrake 7.0

What a piece of shit that was. This guy captures it perfectly.

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

>>56818374
Meanwhile Perfect Dark ran at 007 fps with glitches on Project 64, and ran at 007 fps with N64 hardware. Those were tough times. Fast forward to Xbox 360, I bought the XBLA remaster so fucking quick, but I wish it had the "press LB to hot swap to original graphics" feature that we commonly see today.

>>56818374
>not having a Banshee and running UltraHLE

Remember Zelda being impossible to complete because Zelda would run through a closed door she was supposed to open at the end of the game, trapping you?

Times were different back then famalam.

>>56818421
speedrunners nowadays have found a way to skip down to bottom of the tower without going through any of the doors zelda opens

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As a kid:
>Being able to download music for free
>Being able to download any movie I want
>Playing all the SNES games through emulators

More recently:
>Installing OS on an SSD

Hopefully soon:
Upgrading video from HD 5450 to GTX 1060

>>56818232
>be me
>be me
>be me
>be me

No fucking shit asshole, I'm getting sick of this fucking crap. Who else would you be? Fucking Hitler?

>Finding out you can emulate games
>Building a computer capable of emulating ps2 games
>Discovering Photoshop for the first time

>Pirate Children of Bodom's "Follow The Reaper"
>Legitimately terrified I'll get arrested
It's a favorite because I can look back on it and laugh

>>56818507
>>Finding out you can emulate games
first time i was introduced to emulation was in 1999, someone i knew started up pokémon yellow (then just-released) in NO$GMB

>Symbian dying
>decide to buy a new phone
>a friend tells me that a windows phone can boot 3 funcking OS (including android)
>bought HTC HD2, my first love with android
>actually booted 3 OS (wp7, android and winmobile)
>Hack satisfaction 100%
plus it was damn big and powerful at te time

>early adopter of XP
>128 MB of RAM was the norm
>256 was enthusiast level and 512 was unheard-of

Oh wait I thought you said horrific

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>>56818232
>mfw my father thinks computers are the worst thing that happened to humanity since WW2
>mfw having to play videogames when he wasn't home to not hear him complain about me wasting my youth
>mfw reading this post

Booting fresh Windows 7 RC for the first time.

>searching for 'big boobs' when I was 8

First:
>be 8 year old me, old i486 shared PC in living room with DOS 5 and Win 3.1
>Don't know anything about PCs
>Couple weeks later
>Find WOLF3D.EXE in a folder
>Open WOLF3D.EXE
>My face melts in the glorious 256 color beauty as it starts up

Years later
>Having own Pentium 3 PC
>Insert Half-Life CD
>25min later
>Bunker siren starts playing
>"Good morning and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System..."

13something years later:
>Insertion of Intel 750 400GB PCI-E SSD into my MSI M9 ACK

>>56818310
>You mean to say... I can get software for... FREE!?

>>56818477
its the BEGIN of a greentext block
a feels expression is the END of a greentext block
brush up your greentext fu

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>>56817621
>switch from monochrome to color monitor
>ISDN to DSL
>XP to Win 7, 20m installation with almost all drivers working
>playing vidya with people over internet
>voicechat
>R4 for Nintendo DS
>dumbphone to smartphone, gps, google maps
>HDD to SSD switch
>installing latest Ubuntu LTS/openSUSE Tumbleweed, everything just works.
>Trying out Oculus Rift for first time, motion sicknesss but kicked ass at space game

>>56817621
trying out OS X for first time in 2002
learning JavaScript, it's so good

>>56819833
>tfw you realize feels == return
Is there a complete sytax for this shit?

>>56819906
make one up and post it to ED
this is the neet thing about the interwebs

>>56819930
>you will never
comments the line
>[verb at the beginning of a line]
Applies verb at beginning of all lines. Breaks when another instance is encountered. By default refers to self, may be used wth a pronoun.
>.extension
breaks procedure and returns filename
>mfw
is an eq against attached file, if written mfw I have no face will always return T
>tfw
is like a CDR

fuck this is messy as fuck, I better rewrite this shit elsewhere than the quick reply window.

> dialup at home, spend evenings at public library or school pcs because ISDN
> get locked in school building because cleaning lady didn't notice me sitting in the dark programming VBS quiz games
> jump out of first floor window and climb fence to get home

> in computer lab with friends
> friend A at pc
> friend B has ADD
> didn't take his pills
> starts pulling plugs on A's pc
> sees voltage switch
> pop!
> literally ROFLing and unable to breathe

> watching Jedi Academy Re-Edited on Google Video

> get broadband internet
> download 800x600 wallpapers in a matter of seconds instead of waiting 20 minutes
> don't get interrupted by telephone calls
> streaming porn is now viable

> get flat screen to replace CRT monitor
> suddenly don't need a car to go to LAN parties anymore

> get own pc
> suddenly have 500 GB all to myself instead of tiny 10 GB partition dad gave me on family pc
> don't have to hide porn in encrypted container anymore

>>56818570
>Death be not proud
>Though some have called thee mighty and dreadful
>Art not so
*cue music*
I just put this on for the first time in 8 years, good times.
> tfw I relied on friends burning music and video games on CD for me
> didn't know about filesharing sites
> or FTP
> or torrents

downgrading from windows10 back to 7

This is probably what slaves felt like when they were first freed

>switching the 240V to 120V switch on the PSU
>mobo, vidiacard fried

>>56820546
>deleting system files, because I needed space
>deleting system32 because I don't use that program

>first playing UGH, and jump and bump with my cousin

>>56817621
Not really tech but I enjoyed discovering websites like Miniclip, Newgrounds, Armored Games etc.

The last "good" thing I found is technically Reddit, because if you think about it, the sub system is really great because you could find anything for your preferences, too bad the fucking circle-jerk/Hive-mind ruins it

>went from playing gba emulators on windows xp on a crt then a week later to playing battlefield 3 at max setting on windows 7 at 1080
felt like i was a god for a good week

my first cs1.6 lan tournament. semi pro being 16
:')

>>56820667
Everybody was a semi-pro at 16 desu

I mean CS is not a hard game to learn

>upgraded ram from 16MB to 80
Descent ran smooth as butter even in larger/darker rooms. Good times.

>>56818232
Anon i can speak on behalf of many people on here and not only, that you are one lucky son of a bitch. Fuck you man, i am jelly

>>56817621
>family buys my brother a WinXP laptop for college and they give me his Win95 machine
>the feeling of taking my first computer of my very own into my room for the first time and ricing it with Win95 Plus! themes
>mom takes me to a mom n pop PC store and buys me Tomb Raider II for $5, comes with Thief demo
>had only watched my brother play Quake 2 on this rig, had never actually played true 3D PC games myself
>that feeling of your PC being your own little private world to come home to

>2006 (ish?)
>family, after years of me biking all the way to the town library to use the internet for an hour, decides to upgrade to broadband
>my mom buys me WoW
>I have to pay for the sub or wait between birthday/Christmas for sub cards
>the next 6 months of my life are wasted, but the feeling of awe from going from freeware Quake 3 clones to WoW was awesome

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>>56817621
>upgrading RAM from 256MB to 1GB and playing Gothic 2 afterwards

>>56818232

Are you me?

Going from a 750ti to a 1080

>>56817903
>experiencing the boot time of my PC after I installed my OS on a SSD for the first time
That first time you feel the rush and see your desktop with nothing is loading in the background is probably what coke feels like. Nothing is the same afterwards.

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>tfw vista just so happens to be older than me!

>>56821246
Tfw I want to put a pushbar in my mini shitbox.

>upgrading from Win XP to Win7
>installing my first SSD
>building in a Lian Li chassis
>upgrading from a q6600 to 2500k in TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN
>nailing a stable overclocking of 4.8GHz on that same 2500k at only 1.325V
>upgrading from hd7850 to R9 390
>starting up a game on your first 1080p60 screen coming from a 1440x900 VGA panel

>finding snes9x for Mac
>getting a SECOND display (put it above my main, had IRC on it always on
>discovering ROM hacking and subsequently understanding how all files are just bytes
>finding Photoshop

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>>56817621
>upgrading win9x

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>>56817621
>that glorious windows 98 startup