Eh… Windows 7 background ain’t THAT old. Still the best OS they made.
Who did this 😂😂😂
Submitted 1 day ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f2eeedf7-f950-4459-9062-772d2e6aef82.png
Comments
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“it’s now safe to turn off your computer”
That’s how old I am
…
…
Fuck
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And the power switch was like KA-JUNK when you pushed it, because it was a big ol’ switch that actually physically connected and disconnected the power.
“It’s now safe to turn off your computer” went away after we moved to software power control, where the operating system could signal the power supply to turn off.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I had my computer plugged into a power bar and we’d turn off the power bar to turn off the computer so that we wouldn’t wear out the switch on the computer.
People actually thought you’d have a computer long enough to wear out its power switch.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I knew far, far too many people in HS that just hit the power button without actually shutting it down.
Zoldyck@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I had to type “/win” to boot up Windows
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Into what did you type that? Wouldn’t something already have to have booted first in order to type it?
Grabthar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS ‘park’ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day ago
Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "yoi can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:".
What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.
ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I’m right there with ya. Don’t forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yup. Thankfully that “feature” went away real quick and it became automatic.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I feel you man. Very nostalgic!
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is that Windows 95?
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 day ago
95/98 and ME/XP to a far lesser extent but it was 98 for me lol
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The ole AT power supply standard. Nice.
Gurei@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 19 hours 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.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 12 hours 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 7 hours ago
LOAD “*”, 8, 1
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 12 hours 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
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 7 hours 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.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
is this for jerma specifically because of the time he accidentally turned his computer off with his foot
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Win7 isn’t that old.
einlander@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I was going to say!
The OP was using the fancy new icons…
DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
1: You a veteran?
2: Yes. No. I don’t wanna talk about it.
Camera zooms in on 2, fades to montage:
MiG 21 thundering overhead at tree top levels, while blasting ‘Hush’, which is being comically raised in pitch to squeaking chipmunk levels as it approaches, and then instantly downshifts by two octaves into quaalude voice after it passes overhead.
squad is slowly advancing through Hue with no resistance thus far… and then suddenly, from 3 different directions, VC on mopeds, blasting ‘Surfin Bird’ and headbanging maniacally, rapidly approach the unit… 2 are shot, but one makes it through, moped detonates with the force of 4 bundles of TNT
… rocket pod armed mi8s and hueys pieroutting around each other in the sky, throwing unguided rockets everywhere, taking out ground bound friend and foe alike, both ultimately running out if ammo and then crashing into the ground sideways and upside down…
Camera pops back to 2, slowly zooms out.
2: … I don’t wanna talk about it.
jim3692@discuss.online 1 day ago
You can install and run v3.1 in DosBox. In case anyone wanted to keep using it.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
elvith@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Images you can hear
dbtng@eviltoast.org 1 day ago
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Beldarofremulak@discuss.online 1 day ago
myrrh@ttrpg.network 23 hours ago
frunch@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
“.” ,8,1
dbtng@eviltoast.org 22 hours ago
Mine was a TI 99/4a. Texas Instruments ‘computer’ of the same generation.
Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ayyy childhood
dbtng@eviltoast.org 22 hours ago
Green Screen!
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I mean, I’m in my early 40s and I’ve started with ms-dos. According to this meme what am I? A fucking dinosaur? Am I that old?
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
abfarid@startrek.website 1 day ago
Same, but then you severely undersold how old you are. Like, where’s the Space Cadet, at least?
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Gorillas.bas
Nibbles.bas
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah, old(er) people would boot directly to a BASIC editor.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I remember playing a hotseat game with my friend and his brothers ( I think heroes of might and magic 2) and I accidentally big toed the power button, just like in this picture 😅
Everyone was pretty gutted, although we then found out that autosave happened every turn, what a releif.
neox_@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’m in my late 20s and started with ms-dos too. And even tried OS/2 to check I wasn’t missing something before upgrading to 3.1 then XP 😂
RedditAdminsSuckIt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We were born in the 80s. But people around me that are younger like to say I was born in the 1900s to make me feel extra special
frunch@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They’ve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.
cobysev@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What’s all this newfangled content being posted as old? My first computer had Windows 3.11 that you booted to from a command prompt. It was an amazing graphical upgrade from the command line computers. Now you could actually see what you were doing on the screen instead of typing commands and hoping a document would print with your data.
Before that, I used Apple IIe computers at school, with their solidly green command line interface. I remember being taught how to program instructions with those computers. You had a “turtle” (green triangle) that you needed to move to a specific spot on the screen, and you typed in commands to make him move.
Whatever content is in this meme, it all released long after I grew up and became an adult. You young whippersnappers.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You had a “turtle” (green triangle) that you needed to move to a specific spot on the screen, and you typed in commands to make him move.
Ah. LOGO.
cobysev@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Oh man! I had no clue what the program was called. We used it way back in my kindergarten/1st grade days, so I’d long forgotten the specifics. Thank you! This is exactly it.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Millennials are now “old” by internet standards, so Gen X and older are positively ancient.
bus_factor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m an elder Millennial, and I remember when we got old enough to use the 386 machines at school. Before that we were using DOS.
Our first home computer was bought second hand and didn’t even have a hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives, and also ran DOS. We’d have kids from the entire neighborhood visit to play games on it, because although it was second hand it was also very rare to have one.
I was 12 when Windows 95 came out. All this stuff looks waay newer than that. I’d say this draws the line for old at the older part of Gen Z. Millennials aren’t even on the scale.
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Ok, boomer
slothrop@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
I once knew a woman who used cut up punch cards as spacers when rolling joints.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 14 hours 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 10 hours ago
Yeah, I couldn’t even tell you what my background is.
dan1101@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 day ago
LOAD"*",8,1 SEARCHING FOR * LOADING READY. RUN
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day ago
We had multiple games on our floppies. All pirated and with miles of paper printouts showing which games were kn which floppy.
I think we had two legitimately bought games.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I still remember using Windows machine for the first time after only having a Commodore 64 and Nintendos. I specifically remember thinking it was dumb because it didn’t have a cartridge slot.
TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am also this old. C64 for life
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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+.
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Grimtuck@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
A7thStone@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I am Reversi Hearts Freecell Solitaire Minesweeper 3d pinball for windows old.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
A:>
Tronn4@lemmy.world 1 day ago
glorptex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I need someone do this with XP
iamjackflack@lemm.ee 1 day ago
You guys gave guis?
cuteness@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Image
The standard 5” floppy. The best part was putting down the arm on the drive.