Ah yes, the toe remote still works, also for laptops and without even changing batteries.
You think this is old? Where are the stone tablets with chisels? Kids the days…
Good old Minesweeper and Space Cadet 3D Pinball
4 of these don’t belong
7 of these don’t belong
Why is there a spider on my solitaire card? Where the fuck is my Minesweeper and Netscape Navigator?
Hell yeah!
Hi, kiddie!
Turning on the tower with your foot…yeah, that unlocks some memories, lol.
Now do you also remember shutting it down with your foot?
“It’s now safe to turn off your computer”
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.
The standard 5” floppy. The best part was putting down the latch on the drive and that sweet sound it made.
Remind me to send you a picture of my 3ish feet diameter hard drive platter
Eh… Windows 7 background ain’t THAT old. Still the best OS they made.
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.
LOAD “*”, 8, 1Honestly 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
All this feels pretty old for me
Heh, the days when the six 3.5" floppies of Wing Commander was a huge install and often required a hard disk clean out.
I’m old enough to remember when the Internet was this for us:
I remember this:
This I remember, also askjeeves, dogpile or something (I think it searched like 30+ different search engines and combined the results)
They’ve been trying to bring back online walled-garden systems ever since. Just look at Facebook, or Twitter.
It’s not safe to turn off your computer.
There are enemies nearby.Random tangent, my dad edited the system file that contained that message to “It’s not safe to turn off your computer” when I was like 5 and it kinda fucked me up for a bit.
I loved the island guy and the bad dog ones. Loved After Dark
“it’s now safe to turn off your computer”
That’s how old I am
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Fuck
I had a friend who edited the .jpeg or whatever in the shutdown sequence to say “it is NOT safe to shut off your computer” and waited for his family to freak out.
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.
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.
I knew far, far too many people in HS that just hit the power button without actually shutting it down.
I had to type “/win” to boot up Windows
Into what did you type that? Wouldn’t something already have to have booted first in order to type it?
Oh gawd, there are people that don’t know DOS.
FACK…
I know about DOS if that helps? I’m not too far off from having used it though, I bet. I’m 38.
Yeah you have no excuse
Dos, windows was just a normal dos program you had to start like anything else until windows 95
This PC booted up in DOS
MS-DOS
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.
Yup. Thankfully that “feature” went away real quick and it became automatic.
I feel you man. Very nostalgic!
The ole AT power supply standard. Nice.
Is that Windows 95?
Any Windows machine that does not support ACPI or has it disabled. IIRC Windows has required ACPI since Vista.
95/98 and ME/XP to a far lesser extent but it was 98 for me lol
is this for jerma specifically because of the time he accidentally turned his computer off with his foot
