We pretend it is 1999

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2000 will be year of the linux desktop!

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>>58197411
dude, my dad just got us our first computer, It's a Sony Vaio with 4GB of space, vram is 64MB so you know we can play those sweet games, all with the power of Pentium III. Only cost him a little over $2000

>>58197473

4 gigs? Are you billionaires?

>>58197411
Quake 3 > UT99

more living in the past, because you can't deal with the fact that you're a failure now

>>58197441
Who would want to use a shittier dos, anon?

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>>58197441
Why would anyone want to use Linux? It doesn't even have any games!

The government collects all our phone calls and text messages! Believe me!!!!

The internet is shit these days

most of current /g/ weren't born yet

>>58197427
18+ imageboard

>>58197411
Idk why you guys are still buying all this computer shit when the Y2k bug is gonna fuck us all the way back to the stone age

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>>58197411
Have you guys heard of this Y2K thing?

I was searching for cat pictures on geocities and lots of people were talking about y2k.

Funny note: this one guy put funny jokes on his cat pictures! LOL!

>>58197473
>mfw i stil have 64 mb of vram in the current year
njewia 6.2k

>>58197411

The world ends next year.

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Is this the new thinly veiled desktop thread?

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>>58198093
Not true , i was one 1 years old at that time

>>58198703
>he doesnt use Netscape
faggot

>>58198724
>not using AOL browser

Enjoy getting viruses you dip!

We are going to be so fucked by this new republican president! The race was so close! I cant believe people voted for him.

The world as we know it is going to end on the 31. 12. 1999, I am telling you.

Computers are PROGRAMMED in a way they only see numbers beginning with "1" as years. There was no memory allocated for 2000 and above.

ALL electronic devices will freeze on 11:59 PM. Most nations will not survive this.

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Don't tell me your hardware isn't y2k compliant.

>>58197914

there will never be a game better than this

holy fuck, the graphics, how can anyone top this?

All this OOP garbage like Java will disappear in fifteen years.

I'm telling you, I have experience in the industry and everyone knows OOP is just a temporary trend. In fifteen years, no one will be talking about Java here.

>>58197411
Install Slackware

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>>58198873
>tyan

Damn... dem memories.

>>58198839
No you fuck, the date will simply change to 19100

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Anyone here use BeOS as their main OS?

>tfw watching 5 movies at once with no frame skipping

Yo, Packard Bell was the bee's knees.

>>58199255
Problem with Haiku is lack of software. Neat idea, but it never really caught on.

>>58198888
starcraft brood war
warcraft II

any other RTS ever
>let's walk into battle

>>58199255
I did that
All porn

>>58197411
>pentium
itanium is THE future

>>58198873
>not worrying about the year 2038 issue when all unix systems cease working

I have a promising future! I sure hope I don't end up a pathetic NEET!

Anybody wanna play Heretic shareware? We can take turns!

I remember reading about bitTorrent on a magazine. I understood fucking bollocks of what it meant, but they had photoshopped photos of the creator.

>>58197411
Well, it's 1999 and I have a 286 PC and no money to get a new one. But hey, at least I can play Street Rod and Carmen San Diego

TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999

as soon as we get done with Y2K fixes

>>58197976
how's that tinfoil of yours? if the government really secretly collected it someone would have done something about it

>>58200422
Like who?

>>58200445
bill wouldn't do that to his people, right?

Listen up faggots, I hate to break it to you but you've all time traveled 18 years into the future. This means that all of your once expensive hardware is now worthless junk destined for landfill.

Also CRT's give you cancer and make your balls shrivel up.

>>58200476
You mean the greedy fucker who has used several unlawful tricks from the start of his company to get it where it is and made sure it stays there with same asshole tactics?

While he's not in charge, he's part of the board of directors. He okayed everything that has happened.

>>58200488
I want what you're having.

>>58200525
bill gates is great
I was referring to the president

goo goo gaa gaa I can't form a complete sentence

>>58197441
Quick out of character question: How would I set up modern Linux to look like that?

Also: Who else here /y2kready/

>>58200565
What?

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>>58200539
You're going to wish you never born after seeing what this decade has to offer, the 90's were the last good decade.

>>58200606
C L I N T O N

>>58199817
> bitTorrent
>1999
wew lad

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>>58200640
Forgive me. I had forgotten the point of this thread. I'll take my leave.

>>58200626
Fake and gay, nice GIMP editing faggot
Also we all know Google is never leaving beta, and would never change their logo to something so stupid.

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Anyone know why Sim City 3000's disasters take like 4 minutes to load on my PC?

Boy, I just got the new PowerMac G4 with Gigabit Ethernet. I sure can't wait for 2016, when Gigabit Ethernet equipment will still remain the standard because nobody will buy desktops anymore!

>>58200748
> tfw most of the U.S. still doesn't have more than a 100 megabit internet connection in 2016

>>58200626
Boy, anon, that is an ... "interesting" way to design a webpage, I guess. Why would yiu want it to look like that though, there are no buttons.

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>>58200748
>Mfw still G3 B&W
I'll try to grab one of those SONNET acceleration cards. Shits expensive though.

>>58200818
>acceleration cards
If by that you mean a SATA card, you can just get a cheap chinese sil3112-based card and flash a wiebe firmware on it. Have done it on three G4s and a beige G3.

>>58200850
No, he means a CPU accelerator, they made them to upgrade the iMac G3s to either faster G3s or to much faster G4s.

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Yo, forum that somehow works, even though it hasn't been made yet, whats your favorite WM/DE? Windoze users and fanboys of Bill Gate$ need not answer.

FVWM ALL THE WAY.

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>>58200818
>SONNET

>>58200850
>>58200872
(samefag as 58200872)
also SATA 1.5Gbps launched in like early 2003, what is this future technology you speak of?

>>58200850
>SATA
What's this? "SAT Analogue" ? Speed-ATA?
Anyway, I was talking about those CPU upgrade cards. Appears that the "Yikes!" G4s use G3 mobos, so a 7400 in my B&W should run fine, right?

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>>58200875
4Dwm for life

>>58198714
>1 years old in 1999
woah. i almost said this is an 18+ board and then rememebred that kids born in 1998 are 18.

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>>58197411
>he fell for the win2k meme
fuck that shit, its gonna be ME all over again
sticking with 98SE

>>58200961
>tfw I was 18 in 1999

Lets get some nostalgia going guys, lets pretend that its 1990!

>Can't wait to buy that new 486DX, I hear it dominates the 386!

>>58200982
>he fell for the 98SE meme
Micro$hill

>>58201031
hows that apple working for ya? having fun with no floppys?
(in all seriousness windows stopped being good after 2009)

>>58198966
Truth haeth been spoketh

I've been in a coma for the lwst 6 years, and I gotta replace my DOS, what do I use now.

Also I heard the internet got big, is it better than BBSs.

>>58201058
> implying I would use Apple software or hardware
Slackware and Linux are the future.
2000 will be the year of the Linux desktop!

>there will never be an OS as aesthetically pleasing as win 9x/2000
they were perfectly minimalist with a certain charm to them

>>58201087
install slackware

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Check out my baller switch we got for work. It has fucking FIBER OPTICS!!!!!!! I bet in 5 years we will be using fiber to the desktop.

>>58201101
>he dosnt know about Whistler
have fun getting BTFO in 2001

>>58201133
Whistler is a joke, nobody's going to use it. It's Windows 2000 but a toddler designed its UI.

>>58197411
Getting comfy playing cammondos while downloading mp3's on napsters for my 128mb mp3 player

>>58201157
at least it has a desktop, lunixfag

>>58201169
> implying anyone in the future is still using a desktop and not the vastly superior terminal
kys

>>58201194
>terminal
>1999
having fun in the 1970s old man?

>>58201207
You having fun at the age of 3, Microtoddler?

anyone seen that new show nick came out with, spongebob? it looks pretty good but i dont think it will go past three seasons

>>58201247
It's pretty good but yeah, I give it 4 seasons tops.

>>58201261
definitely wont come out with a movie, they're too focused on beating CN with game shows, man, i wonder how many more seasons hidden temple will get?

bump for web 1.0

>>58200941
that actually looks pretty sweet

>>58201414
I think IceWM has a 4Dwm theme, if you want to try it out.

>>58201414
looks like a windows knock off t b h

What top 3 movies do you list on your geocities pages?

Me:
-The Matrix
-Office Space
-Ghost in the Shell

>>58201531
>geocities
>angelfire

>>58201531
toy story 2 and fight club look pretty good

Mfw i have 6 years
I'm trying to figure out how to use my mmx 333 to play gta 1

>>58201565
>Le Tripod elitist

>>58201613
>1999
>not using AOL movies
>>>/newgrounds/

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its been two years and my 380ED is already outdated

390x comes out, 500mhz pentium 3, 1024x768 15" tft powered by a 2.5mb magigraph, 64mb of fucking ram, and a 12gb hdd

its bullshit, i paid 2300$ for a pentium mmx and 16mb of ram, fucking 2gb hdd

kill me please

>>58197411
damn im still on ver. 10

All I want to do is download dammit on limewire but my mum keeps using the phone and disconnecting my dial up. Aggghhhh

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>>58200700
aww yeah that set up

>>58201680
>dammit
such a faggy word tho

>>58201633
>he fell for the IBM meme
gateway2000 master race

>>58201680
know the feel bro, good thing dads getting a second phone-line specifically for internet.

>>58198703
>winscp

jej

>>58201729
>buying "microsoft windows demonstration": the computer system
hope you have fun with nothing working the second a new version of windows comes out

>>58201782
>buttmad Compaq fag detected

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>>58197411

your quake clan is a bunch of scrubs

>>58201630
>Millennium -1
>Still in the walled garden

>>58201860
The fear factor guy is in my clan bitch

>>58197549
Yeah mate we got a 4g Hard Drive

>>58201466
its more of a CDE knock off.

Guys!!! Time Warner upgraded their internet! I no longer have to dial up. I can receive AND send through the same cable line! And it's so much faster.

>>58201944
You mean phone line?

>>58201900
>current year -17
>not using superior AIM
i bet you use email faggot

>>58201967
>2003
>yorufag
>get always on broadband
>rely on US based websites and communication tools
>tfw you don't know the first thing about how your countryman use the internet
>don't know any of the tools your friends use
>don't know any of the websites your friends use
>tfw stuck on 4chan, digg, consumerist, apartment therapy, distrowatch, msfn and misclaneaous forums
>tfw stuck using yahoo messenger and aim
>ftw your friends use msn messenger

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jeez, dial-up man i swear, took me 20 mutinies to upload this pepe

>>58198601
Hahahahahahah for the record 1996..

>>58200476
Haha bill

>>58201944
>he fell for the broadband meme
i bet youre the type of fag who thinks fiber optic is the future

>>58201125
My organization will probably still be using these 17 years from now

>>58201680
Well I guess

>>58200603
you can set up modern linux to look like that
not certain which WM that is, though

>>58201633
tech moved really quick back then

>buy $2000 machine in 2000
>plays everything maxed out in SXGA res
>by 2003 it's bare minimum spec for anything

>>58200488
> make your balls shrivel up

Good, I make to be a qt gril anyway.

>>58200603
The WM is probably e16 (aka enlightenment DR16).

https://www.enlightenment.org/download-e16

maybe your distro still has it

>>58202626
its pretty impressive, i have a pentium II xeon i got brand new for 6$ on ebay, in 1998 it was an 1800$ processor, by 1999 it was outdated entirely by the pentium III xeons

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>>58199779
>>58198873
y2k38 compliant mobo when

>>58200783
lots of the middle states won't get it just because they're rural.
my friend in Ohio pays 200usd/month for i think 50Mbps, while here on a rock in the middle of the fucking ocean i can get 300Mbps for 70/month

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>>58197411
Hi Guys, look at this sucky portal trying to be Yahoo.
>Plain, no directory
>No free email
>No geocities
>Feeling lucky...

>>58198873

I literally have that same box right next to me. And I have a computer with windows 98 installed on it with the motherboard from that box in it.

>1999

Sim City 3000
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia
Grand Theft Auto London 1969
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
Midtown Madness
Mechwarrior 3
Civilization II: Test of Time
System Shock 2
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Homeworld
Age of Empires II
Heroes of Might and Magic III: Armageddon's Blade
Grand Theft Auto II
Flight Simulator 2000
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Quake III Arena
Mechwarrior 3: Pirates Moon
Planescape: Torment

>>58203078
Worms Armageddon
Unreal Tournament
Super Smash Bros.
Silent Hill
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Counter-Strike
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

such an awesome year in gaming

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>>58197411
My new syncmaster arrived. Once I beef up my desk to hold it I'll be all set!

>>58203957
kek

I actually miss Win2K, I really do, was a great fast incredibly lean operating system and I used it for years without any issues.

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>1999
>Still using CD player

>>58204481
>2000-1
>not using zip
lamo@urlife

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Should I fall for the Neptune Activity Center meme? The desktop looks pretty futuristic and user friendly (compared to the current shit we have right now).

>>58197914
>the more things change, the more they stay the same

>>58204583
works great. i herd that whistler will have all of that as just built in application so im just gonna wait for that

what would the rest of 4chan be like in 1999?

>>58204867
depends on the interests and taste of 11yo moot.

>>58204916
id imagine /pol/ and /v/ to be every different

>>58204867
still autistic

>>58204857
I heard that they're merging the Neptune and Odyssey team to create Whistler. This sounds like the end of the DOS era, boys.

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A S T H E T I C

>>58204936
do you think it will work though? with so many programs still reliant on dos i dont think it will do as good as 98

>>58204920
i'm from /pol/ actually and i would love shitposting on 1999-/pol/

>bush
>clinton
>rise of islamism
>y2k as a (((conspiracy)))
>columbine

>>58204954
fuck that does sound right up their ally. i wonder if theyd have as many qualms with bill as they did with hillary

>>58198703
Lel i had that fucking wallpaper. The guy standing there ruined it desu

>>58204965
He did kill Vince Foster.

>>58204966
i thought it was bretty ebin :-DD

>>58204972
kek i remember that

>>58204965
/pol/ would have loved bill during his time in office. alone the fact he got blowjobs from monica while smoking a cigar he put into her pussy would made him /pol/'s hero.

>cucked hillary, how will she recover?

also, alcoholic boris yeltsin would have been the center of dank memes. /pol/ would be more anarcho-libertarian, austrialian-tier-shitposting back in the 90's.

>>58204954
could you imagine /pol/ on 9/11? theyd go fucking wild for a happening thread like that

>>58205002
actually, i would pay good money to make this happen.

>>58200818
You mean BMW you faggot

>>58200626
>1,740,000,000 results in 0.53 seconds.
Fake and gay.
That's impossible

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>>58200801
all websites are designed like that in the future

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The only computer company that I missed from that era. I am talking about pre-2000's quality level.

>>58205068
>Compaq
>good at any time
HAHAHAHAHAHA

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who is still rocking this /badboy/ here?

>>58204481
>Paying double for cd instead of cassete.

>falling for the digital jew

>>58197411
Only normalfags use Windows 95/98 unironically.

>>58205107
all in ones are the shit m8. cant see them going out of style

>>58205228
>t. butthurt applefag

>>58205272
>implying I'm a System 8 fag
>not realizing Windows NT 4.0 exists

>>58205282
i herd NT 5.0 was gonna be the best one. why did it have to be canceled? WHY?

>>58205317
it wasn't cancelled, and it was the best one

it was renamed to 2000 after the beta

>tfw this thread reminded me that newgrounds still exits
i need to visit

Finally upgraded my PC. Man 650MHz PIII with shiny new Voodoo5 5500 is wicked fast.
Socket7 kiss my ass good buy.

>>58200872
>>58200927
The G3s/early G4s don't use CPU cards, they use a ZIF socket.

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>tfw fell for 512 MiB RAM meme

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>>58197411
>mfw fell for the NTFS meme