What were the so-called 'good old days' for you, /g/?

>>57620107
>Longhorn Transformation Pack...
Nobody would have ever have even installed that if they had the slightest hunch how shit the actual "Longhorn" (aka Vista) OS would be.

>>57620107
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHpf9k1O01c

>>57620187
Longhorn and Vista are two different things (though this says nothing about the virtues of Longhorn itself).

'Aesthetically', Longhorn was fucking gorgeous, though. There were some genuinely exciting things going on with that UI which Vista didn't include.

>>57620107
>What were the so-called 'good old days' for you, /g/?
DOS 6.0, Windows 3.11, Windows 95. Time of true innovation, technology was progressing so fast you felt like you're living in the future. It all went to shit for me in mid '00s

My strongest sense of nostalgia is during the first summer I had internet access at home. I think that will be a pretty common story for anyone over the age of 25.

For me that year was 2001. I had a garbage-picked Pentium I white box PC running Windows 98 with 32mb of ram and a 400mb hard drive. This was outdated for the time but completely fine for browsing the internet of the time.

The most intense memories I have are

>the surreal experience of dialing up the ISP and connecting, and seeing yahoo.com resolve itself in the browser window of a computer I had in my own bedroom
>being able to have "unlimited" time with the internet compared to previous experiences where I was always in a class or library with only a half-hour or hour to browse
>being able to look at porn and save it

We didn't have air conditioning that summer. My CRT monitor generated a good bit of heat on its own. My room would be sweltering as I sat there at 2 am clicking through the list of hentai sites I'd find on a web ring. Back then that stuff was still very exciting to me and i'd have this sick, queasy feeling in my stomach looking at it. It felt like I was living in another reality.

>>57620228
So why Vista ended up being the butt-ugly clusterfuck that it was?

>>57620301
Gonna have to ask MS that one. I don't disagree with you.

>>57620284
>It felt like I was living in another reality.
That's how computers were in the 90s and early 00s. Too bad it all went to shit from there.

>>57620266
I do feel that.

In spite of having the most nostalgia for XP, my primary school was full of 98 machines which first cemented my interest in computers. My secondary school had Win2k for the first three years I was there. I fucking love that OS.

Win98 felt revolutionary for me as a kid.

>>57620284
>i'd have this sick, queasy feeling in my stomach looking at it
God yes.

>>57620284
>Pentium I white box PC running Windows 98 with 32mb of ram and a 400mb hard drive.

That's a pretty weird setup you had there.

>>57620362
>never gonna feel those feels again

>>57620207
This looks cool as fuck.

>>57620367
Why? To me it looks like a mid-90s box (by virtue of the CPU and the disk size) that was later upgraded with some more RAM (originally came with 8-16 megs probably) and which had 98 installed onto it.

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>>57620107
>What were the so-called 'good old days' for you, /g/?

16, playing Team Fortress at a Lan party.

Drugs, Pizza, Beer. NO CELL PHONES. Diablo 2, TF and Counter Strike all night long.

Those were the fucking days, my friend. I call them the beige years.

>>57620435
>NO CELL PHONES
Not even a Nokia 3210?

>>57620435
Sounds fucking amazing.

>>57620414
The hdd is pretty small for a Pentium I era machine, and definitely tiny for a Win98 system. On the other hand, 32MB would be huge at that time, so it probably was upgraded later, but why would they keep that tiny hdd then and even put Win98 on it?

>>57620284
>sick, queasy feeling in my stomach

Weird. I had a hard, throbbing feeling somewhere else back in '03.

>>57620461
We were kids. The fuck did we need cell phones for? Those were for yuppies and your parents. We didn't want to be bothered.

>>57620553
>The fuck did we need cell phones for?
Good days indeed

>>57620495
The PC was assembled from several PCs that had been thrown away. The system originally had 16mb of RAM but I took some out of one of the others and upgraded it to 32mb. The 400mb hard drive was the largest of the bunch, with several 200mb (maybe 250, it's been a long time) hard drives I could swap between when needed. Windows 98 was put on it by a friend of a friend who came by to help me get started up.

This was how it worked sometimes. You just cobbled together whatever computer you could if your family wasn't interested in buying or couldn't afford a PC.

>>57620348
When Windows 98 came out it was a different time, everyone was already having either a PC or a PS1. Early '90s were a lot more interesting, we had this little Amiga vs PC war going but it was a lot friendlier than what kids today have with the whole PC Master Race thing. It was a really weird time for PCs because Amigas were superior compared to PCs when it comes to graphics and sound, they had amazing games and breathtaking demos you could run even on weakest A500 units. I'm not really sure what went wrong there but suddenly PCs got 3d graphics accelerators and 16bit audio cards and Commodore fell to obscurity and finally bankrupt. But I digress, true Windows 98 was some sort of milestone, by that time every household had at least one computer since they became affordable and really easy to use

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Doom 2 & Descent
modem init strings
Connecting over the phone line to play all night
Creating Doom levels with waded
Autoexec.bat & config.sys
Leaving a text file on a friends computer with with a dos type command exploit.
>this could have been any file -anon
Connecting to BBS's with comit
Legend of the red dragon text game
>tfw Violet bears your children
AOL & Prodigy
New top of the line 90Mhz Pentium 8MB ram 500mb drive, Quad speed CD rom, Win 3.11, color bubblejet printer. $2,600. Still have it. Think it had XP 72Mb ram 22GB drive(s) and a CD writer when I stopped using it.

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>>57620107

It would be somewhere around 1998-2001 (Windows 98-ME era), when lots of people started using the internet for the 1st time. Mostly because i was a kid then, computers still felt "magical" - you could do anything you dream of, if you just knew how or where to look. You could suddenly find cracks for any program, download any game you want, or talk to people from faraway lands about things none of your RL friends are interested in... very empowering.

I think there's a major "wow factor" of the internet the youngest generation is missing. It's like you're living in a small world, in a town of a small country and then BAM! - you can teleport anywhere or talk to anyone with just a mouseclick. I'm still amazed by it sometimes.

Visiting a random Geocities page really felt like teleporting into the playroom of some random person's house, you never knew what you'd find! Personal webpages are extinct, it's all businesses now... Yeah there are blogs and stuff, but they lack the charm of something the person hand-made in HTML and made it look *exactly the way they wanted it to look*...

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>>57620435
Oh my..

I remember, anon.

The days were 2004-06, same age 16-17, got my first pc in mid 2005..
Was a Socket 939 AMD X2 4400+, Abit kn8-sli, 2gb ram, X800XL 256mb.

Before this I used my sisters singlecore 939 pc.

But the lan parties man.. CS 1.6, source, BF2, Vietnam, Red alert..

We had cell phones but people used them for calling people in those days, so they wheren't a distraction.

All we did was play games, have heated AMD vs Intel discussions, eat, party and drink!

Fuck me.. Just thinkin about it brings a smile to my face, but that tear is still running down my face.

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Obviously, whenever i look at pic related i can remembere the great old days playing aoe2, downloading from win mix and the other now common things that used to be awesome back then.

>>57620776
For me Amigas might as well have not existed. Just something you'd see in a magazine, kind of like a Neo Geo home console.

>>57620870
>You could suddenly find cracks for any program, download any game you want, or talk to people from faraway lands about things none of your RL friends are interested in... very empowering.

Fucking THIS, man. It was like having a super power. People thought it was fucking insane seeing me playing NES games on a Dreamcast, and then when asked how many games I had on there the reply was "all of them".

And hacks? Same deal. Zelda Outlands was mind blowing in the sense here was a completely new Zelda game to play with whole new unexplored worlds.

>>57621618
B-but... don't copy that floppy, mkay?

>>57621709
pfffffttt

Nobody gave one shit at all about piracy. And I mean absolutely nobody. There was this vague idea that what you're doing might be illegal but it was akin to how it's illegal to cross the street where there's no crosswalk, or drive 2 miles over the speed limit. Nobody cared.

It's only the last few years you've started to see young men respond to the industry brainwashing that tells them to feel guilty about piracy.

>>57620776
Amigas were clearly superior to PC in the late 80s, in the very early 90s PC games were slowly catching up, and by 1993 when Doom came out, the deal was sealed and Amiga was dead in the water. Moreover, 3D acceleration came only a few years later - with the Doom engine, John Carmack and Michael Abrash managed to simply harness the raw power of the x86 CPU (the graphics was being rendered all in software).

My good old days are right now, since I don't rely on shitty tactics like waiting 15 years to forget how shitty something was and actually use new good things.

>emulating any 3D console and playing virtually any PC game at 5760 x 1080 thanks to modding communities
>replay certain ones and discover they were shitty as the goggles fade away and drop this disgusting baggage
>modern internet connection to play multiplayer games
>can literally make own private vpn with friends and play any old game I want even when their multiplayer service is gone

I've moved on and kept the gems in the best way possible. have fun giving up and living in your pretend world yearning for your made up past. Also I'm making more money than I ever could have hoped for since I didn't drop out of CS by pretending to want to use some dead 80s hipster lang so I don't want to yearn for some lost holy time where I couldn't even drive and had to waste most of my time learning 500 year old history

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>2003ish
>pent3 dell in the family room
>download hentai and copy it to a 3.5" floppy
>had a ancient 286 (lol) in my bedroom
>turn it on
>windows 3.1
>tada.wav
>load up LView
>fap to grainy 256-color VGA hentai

those were the days

>>57621908
Uh... you sure showed everyone. Thank you for your enlightening revelation how the younger days of the anons here were just a streak of utter shit and they were just too dumb to have realized it back then and still are to realize it now.

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>>57620107
To be honest, I have more nostalgia for the time before we had internet access.

I remember we had a set of encyclopedias that were literally 30 years old, I would sit down in the living room and read an article, see something else mentioned, walk over and pick up the next one, and before long have almost every single volume stacked in front of me. It was amazing and I felt like I could learn anything there was to know (even though they were extremely old), and looking at the way things used to be done was interesting.

Then the internet came along, and all of a sudden there was a massive sea of information that I could never get through on my own, and I died a little inside.

But yeah, geocities was neat.

>>57621908
>some dead 80s hipster lang
If you're on about C, I hate to disappoint but almost al firmware, kernels, drivers, and embedded software all around you is still written in precisely that "dead hipster lang".

>>57622056
Now imagine how much more you could have learned if you had Wikipedia at your disposal since you were little, rather than having to wrestle around with a physical 30-tome encyclopedia which was much slower to use and still way more limited in scope. All the while the ungrateful little shits today have all this at their disposal, but just waste all of their time on facebook and other pointless crap.

the first PC that was mine: 32 mb ram, pentium 1 233mhz with MMX technology (the last pentium 1 afaik) 8x cd rom, 15 inch monitor and Duke 3D in glorious 800 x 600 high resolution. windows 95


yahoo! powered by google
calling people AOL'ers to talk shit
hotmail
discovering NES and Sega Genesis emulation
making MIDI versions of weezer songs
solid color desktop wallpaper to conserve RAM (still do)
making geocities pages (i had a portable gaming system site and a smashing pumpkins fan site lol)
refreshing your geocities page to get more numbers on the "this page has been visited x times"
chat rooms not having bots

>>57621967
Ha ha, FUCK the old days walking files from the family room to your PC. I hated that shit. I remember basically by sneaking into the living room at 11 on a weekend night to download visual basic and then waking up the next morning and copying to over 9000 floppies and moving them into my room.

>>57621908
and yet you are here making angry posts instead of doing those things

hmm

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>>57622174
reminds me

>once in a blue moon I had the house to myself for a few hours
>go to a porn site
>find the first video that that even remotely looks hot (like less than 30 seconds of searching)
>family pc has video output card
>drag VCR from my bedroom and hook up the cables
>click play on the video, and record on the VCR
>watch out the window for parents
>video ends
>eject tape, delete browsing history, and put everything away
>fap to the same VHS recording of a shitty amateur porn flick for months on end

>>57621908

everyone fondly remembers playing games as a kid. you come in the thread talking shit about other people's lives and pretend to be better than those other people because the games you STILL PLAY as a grown up are more advanced than Quake

you don't sound successful you sound like a stupid kid. normal people can look back on 'the good days'

i used to play hide and seek, have snowball fights, play ninja turtles and i can look back on that shit and smile. if i did that today i would be retarded

>>>/v/

>>57620107
Windows 8

>1994
>Get UFO:Enemy Unknown on release and play it on my 486DX2
Scared shitless by chryssalids on terror mission

I had some dell inspiron with with windows xp from 1st grade to 5th grade . it was a warrior machine , still works even now

>>57621908
I guess it's like the time you lose your virginity. It sucks but you still remember it with warmness in your heart. For me it was the feeling of being impressed by graphics of new games and being baffled by how much technology was growing, and how fast. Today, a lot is taken for granted, and I can't simply relive that feeling anymore.

>>57622056
wow, are you me? I did the exact same thing with my granma's encyclopedia. I didn't even remember this until I read your post. Cool memories.

>>57620107
Windows 3.11 DOS 6.22
Philips pizza box pc (don't remember specs)

ATARI TOS

Apple System 7

>>57620107
My good old days were those days a long long time ago, like a long time ago before the whole microsoft zika virus genocide and the U.S pro microsoft stance against Brazil. US policy makers said prayed god save the queen, and Melinda was spared by the whole Ame-rica Psyop. Back in the windows 95 days, encarta days. Remember the quiz game, the one the jester would bombard you with trivia questions.

Finding 4chan for the first time and being mystified.

muh newgrounds
muh forums

Discovering torrents and torrent trackers...

And my first GNU/Linux OS, which was probably slackware.

You can't trust any linux distro now a-days
Fucking kevinnet hiding in Solus

>>57623797
the kevinnet only affects Solus. Devaun is still fine.

>>57623797

What >>57623815 said

>>57620362
I know that feeling, and I wasn't even able to "really" freely browse the web back in the early 2000s.
Too bad the Internet today is so much different. It's far too connected, and simplified with the illusion it's more advanced than it was 10-15 years ago (if that makes any sense).

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>>57621618

>It's the mid 90's, badly want to play Sonic on the Sega Megadrive 2 but can't afford
>Nintendo64? Yeah, i heard kids in 1st world countries have those. They say it has new Mario games.
>Now it's 2001
>Downloads UltraHLE, Gens, Snes9X
>Unlimited power!!!!

>>57623779
>Newgrounds
Oh man I'm 14 again.

Playing Halflife 1 and Unreal 99 for the first time online against other players. I was up all night.

>>57623940
For me it was the Neo Geo. Shit, I think you could almost call the Neo an honorary late fifth or sixth generation console because that's when the vast majority of people who have played it were introduced to it through emulation. I played more emulated games on the xbox than I did actual titles.

MY first computer that I personally ever worked and paid for myself, was an IBM Aptiva 580. 450mhz Pentium 3. I had 256mb of ram, and a 10gb hard drive. I remember I had put a ZIP drive in it ( cause that is what all of the colleges were using back then ). Remember hooking it up to the LAN at college, and it was so screamingly fast hahahaha. oh man. Those were the days. Late 90's.

I had salvaged a university pentium III (think it was some emachines) beige box that somehow managed to run windows xp and visual studio 2005 to start computer programming club at achool, which quickly devolved to 'drinking and math blasters club'. Still, somehow managed to get internet at school without being in the domain, and so for a while no pageblockers. The school eventually took it. Between that and staying up late playing age of mythology and coding up goofy things for schoolwork I had fun. Should've spent less time waiting on girls' replies on AIM.

>>57621905
Reading Abrash's book on assembly for 8088s is a fucking trip.

>>57622056
Middle ground: my parents bought me those Encarta encyclopedia CDs, DK virtual encyclopedias and whatnots. There was one that rendered in some shitty flash thing that was about the planet earth and you could mine specific rocks and minerals in the sections regarding their types (for example, you could get sulfur in the igneous rocks section, maybe galena). I remember being spooked about the end of the earth and the sun blowing up from this and being afraid to click on the section. It was fucking surreal.