You think this is old? Where are the stone tablets with chisels? Kids the days…
Who did this 😂😂😂
Submitted 9 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Ibaudia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Chisels? In my day you used a triangular reed and you liked it
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hi, kiddie!
bufalo1973@europe.pub 9 months ago
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
4 of these don’t belong
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 months ago
7 of these don’t belong
Why is there a spider on my solitaire card? Where the fuck is my Minesweeper and Netscape?
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hell yeah!
Jumi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Good old Minesweeper and Space Cadet 3D Pinball
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Penny7@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Turning on the tower with your foot…yeah, that unlocks some memories, lol.
Fillicia@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Now do you also remember shutting it down with your foot?
“It’s now safe to turn off your computer”
Penny7@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I didn’t shut down the computer that way, I’d go through the menus and such. At that point I’d just have to shut off the monitor. If I had to do a restart 'cuz the damn thing froze then yeah, I’d use my foot.
Happyblonde@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I only know what half of these things are 😅
cuteness@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Remind me to send you a picture of my 3ish feet diameter hard drive platter
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Eh… Windows 7 background ain’t THAT old. Still the best OS they made.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 9 months ago
is this for jerma specifically because of the time he accidentally turned his computer off with his foot
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Heh, this is brand new software and tech as far as I’m concerned. I remember when the computer did not automatically boot into windows and you had to cd c:\windows and then win.exe.
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
LOAD “*”, 8, 1ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Honestly it feels new to me too. I just thought the meme would spark some nostalgia for all us old(er) people who like to complain about the youngsters
knexcar@lemmy.world 9 months ago
All this feels pretty old for me
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Heh, the days when the six 3.5" floppies of Wing Commander was a huge install and often required a hard disk clean out.
frunch@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Doomsider@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
camelbeard@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This I remember, also askjeeves, dogpile or something (I think it searched like 30+ different search engines and combined the results)
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They’ve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Somehow I’m using the default wallpaper on both w10 and android since I’m older, I just don’t care anymore while before it used to be very important lol
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Yeah, I couldn’t even tell you what my background is.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 9 months ago
A:>
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 9 months ago
I see people be like “can we use b: for the backup drive” and it just feels wrong.
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I’m “boot from A:, keep user files on B:” years old
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I loved the island guy and the bad dog ones. Loved After Dark
elvith@feddit.org 9 months ago
Images you can hear
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 9 months ago
menjoo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I myself was a Norton commander enjoyer
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 9 months ago
skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
CHAIN “SNAPPER”A7thStone@lemmy.world 9 months ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
redwattlebird@lemmings.world 9 months ago
My very first full time job had an ‘internet computer’!
BeamBeamCable@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I only just lost those beautiful speakers… Power cord was failing, but they still played good audio and the bass connector was a beast.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I would’ve replaced the cord!
BeamBeamCable@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I would have too :( It was purged in a major clean while I had it stored at a familys place.
Gurei@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
It’s not safe to turn off your computer.
There are enemies nearby.NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Random tangent, my dad edited the system image that contained that message to “It is not safe to turn off your computer” when I was like 5 and it kinda fucked me up for a bit.
TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My first computer had the following to get a directory listing of a floppy: LOAD”$”,8 That’s how old I am
pjwestin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ah, shit, I had those speakers.
AlDente@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
They would always start buzzing before my phone started ringing.
remotedev@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I brought those speakers and my discman to school in my backpack in high school to bump music during lunch
pjwestin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Mine were always hooked up to our PC. A lot of Age of Empires 2 played through those things.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Let’s just say my first computer did not have one of those cup holder trays but my second computer did.
heavy@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Knowing what the save icon is and “don’t copy that floppy”
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Man, I am even older than this.
Multiple times I was disconnected in the middle of a Starcraft match over our 56k modem… because my dad was getting a goddamned fax sent to him over the same line.
These are all fancy pants, high res icons compared to Win 95 and 98.
Now excuse me while I teleport back in time and jack back in to the Matrix Online beta via an actual telephone line… we didn’t even get DSL untill a year or two after it fully released.
Going fully old man mode:
You whippersnappers have absolutely no clue what pain is.
Pain is playing Battlefield 1942 on a 56k modem with literally zero servers you can connect to being under 150 ping, the vast majority of them being 200, 300+.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
you’re like 40. There are people here who played Maze War.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
About half a decade younger than that, just picked up pc gaming as a hobby at a young age.
But yes, I know that there are many significantly older gamer folks / tech dorks here on lemmy… but there are also now a lot of Gen Z folks, and even some Gen A… who just actually did not ever experience the ‘pre-internet’ era at all.
It gets difficult for me to manage my age perception whiplash at times.
I apparently look young enough that people irl, only 10 years older than me (or less) still refer to me as ‘a bright young man with my whole future ahead of me’, as if I’m in my early 20s… while people 10 years younger than me refer to me as an ancient elder gamer online, and irl, once I tell them my actual age, oh now I’m an uncle, I’m an old man.
??? confused millenial noises ???
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Battlefield 1942 because you played the game in 1942, eh?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Ok so… hear me out.
You know how the common aphorism for dog years is that 1 dog year is 7 human years?
BF 1942 came out in 2002.
60 year difference.
…
I hereby propose a ‘Gamer Age’ formula:
(Real Age - Youngest Age you first put over 50 hours into a single game) * 6
…
So if you are now 40, and you mainlined Starcraft when it came out in 1998, your gamer age is 78… pretty old, seen a lot of shit in your time.
If you are 20, and broke 50 hours into Fortnite at age 14 (when Fortnite first released), your gamer age is 36… middle aged, been around the block.
If you are 16, and broke 50 hours in Fortnite when you were 14… your gamer age is 12 (lol), you are still a little nooblet in terms of gaming experience.
If you are 60, and put 50 hours into a Pacman cabinet when it came out in 1980… gamer age is 240, true elder, arcane wizard status.
If you are Lord British (Richard Garriot), and you use the release date first game he developed (Akalabeth) as the 50hr game…
He works out to a minimum of 276, which is almost certainly a low estimate… by my reckoning, he could potentially be as old as 330…
…few know such things precisely, such is the nature of a truely ancient one, hahaha.
…
If I run this for myself… first game I put more than 50 hours into would have been… Sonic 3 / Sonic & Knuckles, think I broke the 50 hour mark in '96…
So… my gamer age works out to 174.
Unnaturally old, by no means the eldest of the wizened ones, but considerably more experienced than most would guess by my physical form, rofl.
…
Now, this isn’t a perfect metric, as … you could argue the 50 hour threshold should be some other number… and that it doesn’t account for people who have played a whole lot of games, but only a single playthrough… so it is kind of biased toward ‘hardcore’ gamers…
But it does seem roughly in line with the way online lingo and vocabulary and memes seem to work.
And also, non ‘hardcore’ gamers are probably not going to care about any kind of ‘gamer age’ metric.
…
Thoughts? Suggestions? Critiques?
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 9 months ago
When your starcraft LAN matches keep lagging out on the default option IPX. You try the other option but it says not installed. So you have to figure out how to reconfigure your network adapter in windows 98 to use this new thing called TCP/IP. You’re in middle school and youtube doesn’t exist.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
… You go to the GameFAQ board to ask for help, rofl.
dbtng@eviltoast.org 9 months ago
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
frunch@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“.” ,8,1
dbtng@eviltoast.org 9 months ago
Mine was a TI 99/4a. Texas Instruments ‘computer’ of the same generation.
Beldarofremulak@discuss.online 9 months ago
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ayyy childhood
dbtng@eviltoast.org 9 months ago
Green Screen!
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ah yes the toe remote still works for laptops, without even changing batteries.