ITT: We pretend it's 2003

This new PCI-E thing seems to be shit, no way it will replace AGP or PCI.

>>56874138
>2 usb
>1 firewire
has anyone else noticed that firewire is getting phased out?? usb is shit tho its like so slow
also
>windows xp
stick gentoo on it

My friend gave me a pirated copy of Windows XP with some serial.

So I tried it on my pentium 3 500mhz, has 192mb of RAM and a voodoo 3 3000 but it's pretty slow. Any tips on how to make it faster? I don't wanna go back to Windows 98 SE. Millenium blows.

Also I just bought a magazine and tried Knoppix, shit's cool.

>>56874456
Delete system 32.

>>56874138

Hey /g/, when do you think CPU's will hit the 10 GHz mark?

GWH28...

>>56874456
Install 2000 you idiot, XP is bad anyway

who here /internetrelaycomfy/?

>>56875253
But I heard some of my games won't work well there. Like, people use it for work and stuff.

>>56874138
>the 512mb or RAM meme

you will never use that much RAM, geez

>>56874138
Wow a DVD writer AND a CD writer in one piece of hardware? Has technology gone too far?

>>56875253
>1998+2
At least it's not XP but come on

>>56875278
very funny future-kun

>>56875237
Id say maybe 2009 or sometime in the 2010s at the rate we're going

>>56874138
Should I open this email called stinky cheese?

just as bad as our /retro/ threads

fucking circlejerklets filling up their empty schedules

In the future we will even be able to record cd's So fast that it will take just a few seconds.

I really hope so. Been burning several dreamcast games as of late.

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I swear to god I had this as a kid and I used to play Diablo 2 on it.

still using win98. xp is for tryhards. 98 for life.

>tfw you fell for the 512 MiB ram meme

I just installed arch and broke my xorg.conf. Wat do?

Why do idiots in this thread shit on technology that was new in 2003 but everyone knew would supersede 2003 tech?

>>56875652
>tfw you fell for the dual core meme

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>>56874138

If it were 2003 i'd kill moot.

This new 4Ghz Intel cpu is pretty cool. I wonder how fast cpus will be in 2016.

ME:

Waaaaah goo goo gah gah

Hey guys, my Sun ultra5 that got me through college is showing its age. Should I just buy a laptop and switch to RedHat?

>>56875755
Build an Athlon 64 rig, the IPC is awesome, I don't think Intel will come out with anything faster for the clock speed anytime soon.

>>56874456
Install it a second time to double the specs.

>>56874334
>things noone in 2003 said

>>56875725
2003 was only 13 years ago man.

Intel Prescott will take the performance crown from AMD. Tejas and Jayhawk will finish AMD for good.

>>56875775
Thanks man, but all my friends have moved to Apple PowerBooks, I guess OS X is UNIX now?
Eh, I wish sun made a laptop, Sun will be around so much longer than that faggy apple shit.

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Check out my new rig dude!

"you can take pictures with that?"
taken with a shitty early webcam called coolcam or something

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>>56876090

>>56874138
That exact computer was my child/teenhood. Fuck.

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What do you think about the last HP Pocket PC?

We finally got rid of the VAX. Now what? Boss says I need to learn something called Visual Basic.

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Man I LOVE Winamp

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Man I LOVE total commander

>>56875755
Cop an Octane2 or Ultra 60.

>>56876176
Touchscreens are shit, it will always be better to have buttons do everything than a finicky screen that hardly works

>morganwebb.avi
Have you guys seen the Screensavers?

>>56874138
>Pentium 4
lol. get a powerpc you n00b.

>>56875860
*wink :^)

>>56875562
>as a kid
>it just came out
MODSSSSSS

I just found the Half-Life 2 leak guys! it's legit on Limewire

>>56876176
>touchscreen
shit wont ever take off

>>56874138
tfw I have that desktop in my garage

>>56876176
Pocket sized computers will never be necessary

Where the guro board went?
Why is everyone talking about Gentoo?

>>56874138
How good does you guys' computer run Rollercoaster Tycoon 2?

Just got a sick 15" LCD monitor, glad I don't have to deal with a CRT anymore. Fuck this widescreen shit people seem to want to push though, I hope it never takes off.

>>56876061
Newfag detected.

CPS3 emulation wasn't even perfected until 2007. There's no way anyone in 2003 could have played 3rd Strike on their computer unless they had arcade hardware + a Supergun and hooked it up to their monitor to give the illusion that their Pentium III was emulating the game.

>>56877881
>Dual Xeon machine with a 9800XT
Balling.

Anyone wanna play Desert Crisis, that mod is fucking awesome. I wonder how many great total conversion mods Half-Life 2 will have!

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>>56876757
>Files from 2006 and 2007
N-nani? Are you some sort of time traveler?

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>>56874138
What you think of this "Steam" shit?
I can master the game in the time it takes to download and fuck getting a bigger hard drive just for games.

You think this will be the norm?

>>56875684
:^))

>>56878519

yeah man, counterstrike runs like shit now, the menu is ugly as fuck, we got like, bleached robot arms or some shit and that shield is soooo annoyin

>>56878504

clearly shopped

>>56878519
I CANT WAIT FOR FRIENDS TO WORK

>>56878504
also who is nani

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This media drive think is the future! The future I tells ya!

>>56874138
It was just a meme faggot.
Even in 2010 when sata III advertised "6 gigs a second" most drives maxed out at 100-150 megs a second.

>>56878640
what the fuck even was that?
It was just a removable harddrive.. right?

I'm going to save $50 and get a 500GB hard drive. I'll never use a terabyte.

>>56878504
>>56878562
No, its obviously a screenshot from 2007 from when that version was released or being advertised or just reviewed somewhere.

>>56878676
>terabyte
>only $50 more
>in 2003
Its past your bedtime.

>>56878699
>This guy

>>56878699

Are you fucking retarded?

>>56878674
Yep. There was a usb-a plug at the back of that bay.

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>>56878674
Just a glorified USB stick

>>56878732
>>56878728
http://www.pakfile.net/total-commander.php?id=31
Sure, anon took a screenshot just now and then decided to upload the whole file and watermark it to some shit site

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>>56874138
I had the AMD version of this.

I played so much d2 and wc3 on it that the disk tray would rattle like hell.

>>56878790

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>this guy

AoM or WC3, i can't decide what to buy :(

>>56874138
64MB VIDEO MEMORY IS MORE THAN ENOUGH

>>56878519
Who else just copped a five digit Steam id?

>>56878519
I forgot it looked like this

>>56874334
When PCIe and sata arrived, non of my friends who is tech head said such things. We welcomed it like a kike with a kite.

Well except sata port itself because it looks so small and fragile, other than that its a huge welcome.

Now usb vs firewire, that shit nearly fought over a decade for high end mobo, with macfags trying to justify PC firewire wont work as good as mac firewire etc.

>>56876061
I use the same mouse man

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You still use floppys? Time to upgrade bro.

>>56879048
i did

it would have been lower if the steam servers didnt bog down for a week after it was released officially. i had a four digit WONid beforehand

>>56879343
That's the 90s you fucking tard.

>>56879406
I want to say I had one too but I lost that account somehow because I'm dumb.

>>56879296
Fast forward to 2016 and you have the same shit with Tbolt / USB3.

Thunderbolt complete with the same DMA exploits as FireWire :^)

>>56879048
Real players waited because steam was (and in some cases still is) total fucking garbage. My account is a sept 2003 one but I never actually used it over won until it was forced

>>56879483
>Realplayer

>>56878837
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>you

Holy shit, I think this was my computer for years.

>>56879483
More like CS scrim fags waited meanwhile "real players" registered any Half-Life product CD key to get the whole platinum collection for free, then spent countless hours playing those and contributing to the (still) thriving modding days.

>>56879442
I don't know about you, but people I knew were still using floppy discs and zip drives.

>>56875670
Sweet Jesus is that one on the right real? Please tell me that's a shop.

>phone rings
>connection lost

WHO THE FUCK IS CALLING MY FUCKING HOUSE

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Look at this cool purple ape!

>>56874138
So you like Master and Slaves, dipshit?

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Move the fuck over - I'm gonna play me some Duke Nukem 3D and look at pixelated boobies.

>>56878800
but you had no-cd cracks and daemon tools in 2003... iirc.
or at least alcohol 120%

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what the fuck was this cable called? I don't remember since using firewire on my vaio lmao fags come at me

>>56879442
Floppy dics and zip dries were still popular in 2003. It wasn't till 2006 or so that flsh drives became really popular
>Inb4 it's 2003

>>56880622
but Duke Nuken 3D came out in 1996 kiddo

>>56874138
>tfw fell for the 1 GB of RAM meme

>>56881942
(fuck me, I just checked task manager, running only basic apps I have 10gb ram used up.

> but 4gb is more than enough
> 8gb is overkill!111)

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>>56881948
>only basic apps
>10gb

What the fuck do you consider basic?

be me in 2003 finally get 56k dial up at home
man i hope my pentuim 1 holds out untill i buy that pentuim 4 gee i have it for years and years

do people even sell pc's ? oooh look a club fror people with early 90's PC's

*sees the picture saying trade to recycle on your early ninties hardware and get a wooping 80 dollers trade in*

Gee its not worth that much , I might just go and trade in now woopee.

I've come from the future to tell you that 4chan isn't even all that good now
there aren't even any text BBSes any more

4chan Pass user since September 2012.

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>>56874138
God I can't wait for Doom3! Already saving up for those DX8 cards...

What's the best winamp plug-in set!?

>>56882073
Doom 3 used OpenGL.
Also, it came out in 2004, DX9 was out by then, or at least most people had DX8.1 cards

>>56877150
this is still true today
really makes you think

I just got broadband! Finally!
Five hundred kilobits per second up in this motherfucker!
And a wireless router! How did I ever live without being able to take my laptop into the toilet?

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>>56882740
>tfw you had a Geforce MX440

>>56874138
YEAR OF LINUX OS SOON

>>56878519
>279kb/s
Holy shit man do you live in a server room?

>tfw when just upgraded to 56k

>>56878519
Dude steam is fucking awful
>Buy game
>Install it
>Have to run and download the game to fucking play it
>steam servers are down half the day
>can't play games if offline

Steam is fucking awful and if you weren't a babby in 2004 you'd have remembered this

>>56881800
It's a USB extension cable

>>56883032
/thread.

>>56874138
He fell for the 512MB RAM meme.
You'll never be able to utilize all that memory

Firewire is clearly superior in every way. USB will be dead before the end of the decade.

>>56878519
The clients itself consumes 50MB of ram. What a bloated pos.

>>56881879
And nothing better was released since.

today i lurned how to write my name

HOW DO I GET RID OF COOL WEB SEARCH!?!?! PLEASE HELP ME :(((

>>56878640
Nice case. I can't see all these curvy features getting old and visually annoying.

>160 GB storage
what the hell are you going to store on there, the Library of Congress?

I'm a time traveller from the year 2016. Ask me anything.

>>56881800
fuck that

serial connected printers are where it's at

>>56882021
Windows 10

lol internet

>>56878759
This image makes me sad. HP actually tried to have those use a common standard. Today you'd get some shitty proprietary USB connector and kernel mode aids drivers for some "innovative" filesystem

>>56887212
Will common household ever need megabaud connections?

>>56875860
He's just trying to say that he's been autistic since he was a kid

>>56879343
I remember these being all around my elementary school, but we weren't allowed to touch them.

>>56887635
Yeah we never used floppies on the iMac G3s in 2003 at school when I was 8, but there was an unused external floppy drive next to it.

>>56887261
I sure hope you mean you operate a Model 33 and don't have that RS232 bargage

>>56878640
COURAGE

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Just came back from the local computer store with the freshest price list! 1 USD ~ 220 Ft

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>>56888520

>>56881863
I remember at school in 2004 it was still pretty much the norm for people to carry around floppy disks.

>>56888520
Szép :)

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>>56874138
I can max out C&C Generals with this bad boy

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>>56888520
Check this out, just ordered my first PC :)
I'm getting pre-built because I'm dumb.
Also I'm not getting a graphics card or a motherboard with an AGP slot because I'm never going to play games on it. There's no way I'd be interested in playing something like Wolfenstein Enemy Territory that's just about to come out

brb: trading DOS warez via floppy

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what do people think of runescape 2? it's been out a few months now

>>56874138
>Just a meme
No one said this until around 2014.

>>56889557
I know they didn't say that, but SATA actually was kind of a meme for years, because drive didn't have a fast enough sustained data transfer rate to be bottlenecked by IDE, that's why it's common to see one IDE connector on motherboards as new as 2009.

>>56890539
>because drive
drives*

>>56874456
Wait for the FX 5800 it will btfo ATi i promise you

>>56874456
download more ram.

>fell for the ____ "meme"
Nobody used that word in that context as recently as three years ago. Try to at least pretend like you were cognisant in 2003

>>56879343
>l use floppys? Time
To upgrade BIOS it's great.

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>>56878504

>>56874138
>>56874334
no one said either of these things.

may bitch about needing new motherboards or psus, but never about the standard as it un fucked so much of what was a nightmare on pcs.

can not tell you how many times i removed a parallel cable, to switch hardware, it didn't work, then tried to put it back in the exact same configuration and it still wouldn't work. fuck pre win2000/xp windows and fuck the old hardware that barely functioned even when you did everything right, holy shit.

>all these images
>not a single 56k warning in any post
Yeah nah pretty sure you fags were born in 2003

>>56882073
>>56882740

You could run it in DX9. It and HL2 were the two big dx9 games everyone was waiting for. The geforce FX series had shitty DX9 performance, which is why the ATI Radeon X800 won. Also FarCry.

Good times.

>>56891874
Halo 2 didn't work that well with DX9 though

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>>56891897

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>>56891909

Why the fuck are you posting about technology in /g/? This is a guro board gtfo

>>56889039
why were you getting at pc from the isle of wright? Do you live there?

>>56892382
No, I think I just googled for PC builders and went with the one that looked cheapest

>>56875530
Delete immediately before someone gets hurt!