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Windows XP (lemmy.zip)
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[-] [email protected] 132 points 1 year ago

What's it called when you backport modern features to retro systems like this mockup? I swear there's a word for this...

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

It would be awesome if there was a community focused on that

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Be the change you wish to see in the world

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Backporting

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok...someone do this but in an Atari 2600 theme. I wanna see what loot boxes and modern gaming shit would look in 160x192 128 color resolution.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I think you're looking for "anachronism": A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I’d call it techlapse

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

That's kind of overwhelming to me. It's like there's no bottom to that rabbit hole. I love it and I have so many questions.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Woah cool website, I don't how'd you know about this but thanks you

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

How? Using Internet since more than 25 Years result in only ignoring the most new pages.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Nice, even moving the computer into the trash worked as expected.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Even a community in GitHub with forks, mods and plug-ins.

https://github.com/win93-community/awesome-win93

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Half-Life 3 confirmed

Oh yeah, that's gooooood...

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I love this, I wasted so much time on my phone. The Playstation start up sound was amazing. I need to open it on a conputer

[-] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago

The little shield next to the turn off computer icon implying it'll update it without asking is a nice touch

[-] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looks like ads in the start menu aren't anything new.

Edit: I'm dumb, but I'm leaving my comment here.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago

Surfing away with an administrator account.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Trying to teach my in-laws not to do that was impossible.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe it was just easier to install those browser bars as admin.

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

windows has normalized all that shit so well that this image is genuinely disturbing compared to the win 11 start menu. I am glad my windows days ended years ago

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What the fuck is wrong with you... No... Don't you dishonor my house like that...

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I threw up a little.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Those msn searches 🤣

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

You could substantially de-uglify XP with a different theme, but, damn....that ugly

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Which one, black or silver?

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

I hate it.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Since at that time these shits weren't really normalized, I can imagine some people would actually like these things and maybe even use them. It would have feel... kinda modern? If that makes sense... (tho when I first saw XP after using 95 and 98 in my life at that point, it felt absolutely super-duper modern x3)

I like this image - it is really nicely done. I don't like what it represents, but the image itself is decent.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Given that this was the prime time for Bonzi Buddy, I'm inclined to say I agree with you. People chose these things years ago, because it added more to the experience outside of "here is your word processor, here is notepad, here are the three games you have to play".

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Some Microsoft exec somewhere: “WRITE THAT DOWN”

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It's missing filling the start bat with a massive Copilot box and weather/news widget. Or maybe missed an opportunity to make Clippy the AI assistant.

I love-hate it.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I preferred Yahoo Messenger to Windows solely due to the ROTFLMAO emoji… it kicked ass. Made me giggle every time I used it.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

tihi

but it's also a very good visualization what windows user got slow boiled into

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Make thyself scarce, cur, less ye see the back of my hand.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Look how they massacred my boy...

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love the attention to detail, putting the upsell “30days of msn premium” between the “start” and “all programs” buttons, beautiful.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I crave retro futuristic. The flesh craves nostalgia. Also... pentiums and 512mb of ram would have fucking been cooked if they tried this lmao

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I don't remember seeing all the internet links in the start menu.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows is ideal for experts, Twilight Zone lovers and desire for adventure, for the rest Linux is better (In the beginning it was the other way around, the first Distros even caused some suicids)

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