“it’s now safe to turn off your computer”
That’s how old I am
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Fuck
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?
Dos, windows was just a normal dos program you had to start like anything else until windows 95
MS-DOS
This PC booted up in DOS
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
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
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.
Entertainment packs 1-4. Chips Challenge, SkiFree, Rodent’s Revenge
Oh man, I found chip’s challenge again a few years back (it took forever because I couldn’t remember the name) but I totally forgot about rodent’s revenge!
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.
It’s not safe to turn off your computer.
There are enemies nearby.
Win7 isn’t that old.
People born when Windows 7 was released can get a driver’s license in many parts of the world
Fuck I’m old.
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?
In my early 30’s. Started with W95. But did dabble in dos sometimes
Nah, old(er) people would boot directly to a BASIC editor.
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.
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 😂
Gorillas.bas
Nibbles.bas
mine
I loved the island guy and the bad dog ones. Loved After Dark
Shit, I’m old…
If you stare at it long enough the clouds start to move a little
God, same. I’m actually using that currently on my laptop.
It’s on my old netbook, it will never leave.
That thing is nearing 20 now I think!
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.
Millennials are now “old” by internet standards, so Gen X and older are positively ancient.
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.
The oldest Millennials are 44 now, and the term is still sometimes used to mean “young people.” But only by older people.
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.
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.
I continue to be this old.
Let’s be real - we always assumed that we could hear our parents walking in but there’s no way they didn’t sneak up and check what we were watching once in a while
if they saw the depraved smut I was cranking to I can guarantee my ass would be a paraplegic from the whoopin I would have got.
they didn’t know. they’ll never know.
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.
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
Heh, the days when the six 3.5" floppies of Wing Commander was a huge install and often required a hard disk clean out.
All this feels pretty old for me
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But can it run Crysis?
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.
Eh… Windows 7 background ain’t THAT old. Still the best OS they made.
