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[โ€“] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah yes, the toe remote still works, also for laptops and without even changing batteries.

[โ€“] bufalo1973@europe.pub 6 points 2 days ago
[โ€“] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You think this is old? Where are the stone tablets with chisels? Kids the days...

[โ€“] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Chisels? In my day you used a triangular reed and you liked it

[โ€“] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago

Eh... Windows 7 background ain't THAT old. Still the best OS they made.

[โ€“] cuteness@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The standard 5โ€ floppy. The best part was putting down the latch on the drive and that sweet sound it made.

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[โ€“] cm0002@lemmy.world 146 points 4 days ago (25 children)

"it's now safe to turn off your computer"

That's how old I am

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Fuck

[โ€“] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 50 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 days 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.

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[โ€“] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

7 of these don't belong

Why is there a spider on my solitaire card? Where the fuck is my Minesweeper and Netscape Navigator?

[โ€“] Jumi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Good old Minesweeper and Space Cadet 3D Pinball

[โ€“] Gurei@sh.itjust.works 69 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

It's not safe to turn off your computer.
There are enemies nearby.

[โ€“] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[โ€“] Penny7@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Turning on the tower with your foot...yeah, that unlocks some memories, lol.

[โ€“] Fillicia@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now do you also remember shutting it down with your foot?

"It's now safe to turn off your computer"

[โ€“] Penny7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days 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.

[โ€“] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

LOAD โ€œ*โ€, 8, 1

[โ€“] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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[โ€“] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 74 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] kadup@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago (2 children)

People born when Windows 7 was released can get a driver's license in many parts of the world

[โ€“] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago

Fuck I'm old.

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[โ€“] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] einlander@lemmy.world 71 points 4 days ago (6 children)
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[โ€“] dbtng@eviltoast.org 39 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[โ€“] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 46 points 4 days ago (6 children)

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?

[โ€“] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

In my early 30's. Started with W95. But did dabble in dos sometimes

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[โ€“] frunch@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm old enough to remember when the Internet was this for us:

[โ€“] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] camelbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

This I remember, also askjeeves, dogpile or something (I think it searched like 30+ different search engines and combined the results)

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[โ€“] slothrop@lemmy.ca 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] cobysev@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.

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[โ€“] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Hi, kiddie!

[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

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 ... XP, i think?... 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 angry 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+.

Those packets had to march across shitty rural phone lines uphill, both ways! And a storm would throw a tree onto them every 3 weeks!

Pain is your shitty eMachine being so underpowered that the only way you can actually play through HL2 is all settings at minimum, and then also when Alyx is getting teleported out of Kleiner's lab, you have to look at the ground, because the 8 or so particles with bloom that spin around her, + the flashing color negative post processing effect... is too fucking difficult for your moldy, sprouting potato of a pc to run without CTDing or even segfaulting.

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[โ€“] dan1101@lemm.ee 33 points 4 days ago (14 children)
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[โ€“] Noodle07@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I continue to be this old.

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[โ€“] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] A7thStone@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago
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