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[–] 147 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

That's how old I am

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Fuck

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "you can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:".

    What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.

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    [–] 47 points 1 year ago (5 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?

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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago (3 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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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 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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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 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.

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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I continue to be this old.

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

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

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I am Reversi Hearts Freecell Solitaire Minesweeper 3d pinball for windows old.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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