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[–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's funny that you can tell how old people are based on what version of windows they find nostalgic and how it moved from windows xp to windows 7

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    Man, here I am nostalgic for windows 3.11, 12 floppy disks on a beige solid metal computer with an A: drive and slot for a B: drive old IBM mouse, fat 12 inch crt monitor on a bread stand from my dads work (because what is a computer desk at this point) something like 3 mb of ram and most gam3s ran from the floppy disks themselves executed from DOS. I mean I was young but that is my earliest experience of windows and computers.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 weeks ago* (1 child)

    It feels like giving away our humanity for a dirty street drug.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Solitare

    Spider Solitare

    Chess Solitare

    Single Player Video Games where you murder everyone else on the screen

    The worst web browser ever invented

    A thinly disguised foot fetish

    Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    No nostalgia meme should include the icon for Internet Explorer. Nobody on the planet is nostalgic for that pile of garbage.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Would you believe there was a time in history when internet explorer 6 was too big to download, so I used to install it from an ISP CD.

    Freeserve (uk) if i remember correctly. They also branded the loading animation in the top corner so you had to rummage around the program files folder and remove the branding gif to get the original globe / windows flag back.

    Those were the same days that running xp pre SP1 online was computer suicide. Microsoft sent out free CDs to upgrade it was so bad.

    Anyway, thanks for taking a walk down memory lane with me. My back hurts

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    Man those are the new icons. I remember the old ones.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    Jokes on you i was already living on the internet in that era

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago

    You should be able to initialize a modem with Hayes AT commands to properly negotiate the fastest connection to get on the internet :P

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Jazzball was the best Microsoft free game and ill die on that hill

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