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Can't agree with him hating on the Performa computers though. I'm super nostalgic and fond of them 'cause we had them in school. Loved playing Brickles Deluxe, Triazzle, Space Junkie, and Oregon Trail on those things. Claris Works was fun too! Also the Accelerated Reader program started off my love for reading. Wish I bought one when they were abundant and practically free. They've gotten rare enough now people want like $300+ for them. Not to mention the shipping costs since they're heavy!
I can’t believe you went into KidPix and didn’t click the Undo button. That man shouting “Oops!” and “Oh no!” live rent free in the nostalgia section of my brain.
Sorry not meaning to hijack your thread, but did anyone else see Matt's vid (Techmoan) on the old Mission Impossible tv show?? In a bunch of episodes, the little self-destructing tape recorder was .....(wait for it) ..........a CRAIG!! 😆
It was also a cheap way to make low end products fun, and helped a ton with visual identity. You weren't mistaking your translucent blue plastic portable stereo for your black leather wallet, unlike today where you can't identify what's a wallet, a smartphone, a car key fob, a charging bank, or a wireless speaker without picking it up and flipping it over because it's all black plastic.
Problem was these translucent plastics all became brittle and cracked after a couple of years: then in the 00s manufacturers became obsessed with that weird rubberised plastic that effectively melted at room temperature into a sticky mess!
@@Maxibon2007 The fragility issue mostly seemed to be an Apple (and inconsistently a Sony) problem. I've still got some stuff from the era like a lamp, pencil case, and Gamecube controller that hasn't cracked and has survived more hard hits than "ruggedized" devices of today.
The flat monolithic design of things today has unfortunately extended to user interfaces as well. It's weird to think that Windows 98 could be more interesting to look at than 10/11. Even kitchen appliances are mostly either some type of brushed metal and/or black. Design language in general now is just depressing.
KidPix took me back, and I didn't even grow up with that version! Just hearing the "Ding dong! Wow!" Immediately reminded me of being in school and drawing with this app. I haven't thought of KidPix in literal decades lol.
"It has a handle" has to be my favorite line by Steve Jobs when the iBook clamshell was released. Love handles myself that one of my PCs got modded with a handle. (There wasn't an ccessory option so I got a drawer handle, screws, a piece of flatbar, and my dad's help with the drill and made it work.) Edit: I did not expect 800 likes on a comment about handles LOL but thanks.
I miss the times where carrying around a laptop on a handle seemed like a good idea, but then the laptop bag took off and the handle idea seemed pointless.
WE'RE GOIN TO BENDIGO TO GET ME IMAC! Holy crap the kid pics sound effects, that unlocked a part of my brain I thought was lost to the concussions, alcohol, and time
I didn't even remember what Kid Pix was but that part of the video unlocked a childhood memory from elementary school circa 2005. Our classroom had a couple Macs in one corner that could be used at allowed times. During one time that we were supposed to be reading and the teacher was slightly distracted, this one boy got up and went to one of the computers, opened Kid Pix, and started doodling with the paintbrush tool. The teacher very quickly realized what he was doing and pulled him away from it, but not before he made what looked like four alien-like blobules rising on stalks up from the bottom of the screen. I thought it looked hilarious and kept giggling about it the rest of the day
Reminds me of being in the computer lab at school. I'd take the time to chat with my buddies or even just look around at the other student's displays to see who was quicker on the draw or had a faster machine. And when we first powered on the computers you'd get to hear the startup tone 25 different times in stereo around the room. 🤣 LOL, and just triggered a memory of trying to print book reports and stuff. Those old LaserWriters were slow and your computer couldn't do anything else while it was printing. So it'd take the whole class like 30 minutes to print their papers. 🤣
As soon as I saw that 90's blue clam shell, I immediately got hit with a wave of nostalgia of playing Bugdom at school. Totally wasn't expecting for Bugdom to actually show up in the video as well. I legit hadn't seen any gameplay of it since the 90s. Thanks for resurrecting that forgotten memory.
Yes, Bugdom!! I had an iMac at home that has this on it, lost many hours to it. Reinstalled it 10-odd years ago and posted some embarrassing gameplay on my channel.
I literally can’t believe you made this video, as I have just bought an ibook G4 (the generation after this one)! I wanted something slow and clunky that had trouble connecting to the internet so I could write with no interruptions (and also play The Sims 1). I loved seeing those old applications and hearing those old sounds again ❤
What a blast to the past. I want these kinds of designs to come back. They were so fun to look at! The catholic school I went to was over 100 years old and, for as long as I was there, exclusively only used Macs. So one day we went to the basement cafeteria (that had been defunct for a few years) and I saw what I can only describe as the Mac graveyard. I think every iteration of an Apple computer up until that point was there laid out to collect dust. The memory of seeing that lives in my head rent free.
these macs are easily the golden age, i have the same exact memories with the kid pix at school too XD. watching all the effects n stamps n sounds was super nostalgic ty very much XD
I had completely forgotten about it until now. That game was my jam, until the one with the time traveling, laser shooting velociraptor came out. Edit: Nanosaur 2
You, dankpods, have unlocked my childhood with that bugdom game, I distinctly remember kid me and my mum being stuck on the level with giant feet crashing down on top of our character Good times
I have one of the blue and white G3 towers. It was the first old computer I ever got ($20 from a surplus store). What I find funny is that if you want to, you could put a modern motherboard in it because it uses the microATX standard, which is the form factor of modern motherboards.
@@The_BoctorWade made a broad statement about "everyone else", which would include the IBM Thinkpads of the era regardless of what was pictured, which (barring exception for a single model with a janky keyboard mech) definitely weren't miserable machines. Some of HP's laptops from the time were solid too.
Dude. Seeing and hearing kidpix genuinely brought me to tears. It opened a core memory of a time I wish I could go back to, where things were just simple. Probably should have appreciated those times more before I had to worry about taxes and healthcare costs, but this was a beautiful trip down memory lane. I had no idea I’d ever see it again and hear those goofy noises again, but it felt like being back in the computer lab again, every Wednesday after lunch. Thank you Wade ❤️
Oh man, this was a trip to the past! We never had the book version, but I definitely remember playing on the regular iMacs... And Kid Pix unlocked memories I didn't even know I had! Thank you for this XD
Going back to when Halo was going to be a Mac exclusive game, intoduced by Stevie J himself at Macworld '99. I had a grey G4 tower, it was great (and more customizable and accesible than a new Apple silicon system 😂)
Verbally giving a photosensitivity warning is super cool to do. I'm an epileptic viewer who mostly listens but that made me feel so much less wary about the visuals, since it's really hit or miss with electronics. Thank you for being considerate!
The amount of nostalgia i got to experience alongside mr.dank was a treat. BUGDOM WAS PEAK AS A KID! I remember playing the heck out of that in the elementary computer lab alongside this caveman karting game with the other kids, good times
Maaaaaan all of this was my absolute childhood. All of Pangeasoft’s games were such mac gems. Holy shit the amount of time I spent on Bugdom and Nanosaur… I died a bit hearing that Wade was not familiar with their work 😭
thats awesome :D i just recently saved a ibook g4 from being thrown away and those old macs are just so much fun to do random stuff and appreciate how far we have come
I loved playing Bugdom, Kid Pix, Appleworks Paint and Oregon Trail on my school’s iMacs back in the day! These were such great computers. Thanks for making this video, it was fun and I really liked it!
Mac OS X was yummy looking up to about 10.4. I def miss the colorful and fun era of computing. We'll get back there eventually I suppose. '90s fashion is coming back!
@@CharlesP2009 "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them." - Steve Jobs describing the look of OS X when it was being revealed.
It was great. I remember theming Mac OS 8 on my old Mac to look like OS X with Kaleidoscope. It was overall primitive how it did it compared to the real thing, but I remember gawking at the scrollbars and checkboxes in awe. Then getting a new Mac early 2000s, OS X was just so wildly different and 'futuristic'. Using it now it's okay, but I don't understand why they've made the window buttons so tiny and all the other tinkering they've done. There's not much Aqua left, unfortunately.
Thanks for the KidPix nostalgia trip! I haven't seen or heard that in more than 20 years, haha. The only thing to complete the feeling would be if Maths Circus was on there too.
recently was at my sister's, and being the family's tech support i was setting up the tv and stuff, and out of the blue find the remote had pkcells in it. i laughed so hard and said "OH MY PKCELL !11!!!" took me 30 mins to explain to my sister that no, im not insane, it is a reference, and m8 theres this aussie youtuber etc.
I grew up in an Apple family; we had a IIe, which had one of the best home ports of Pacman for the time, and I used to fiddle around with a Garfield greeting card maker as a toddler. Fast forward to 1999, and we get a G3 iMac in pink. I would have preferred the blue color, but my sister would eventually get one, which my parents and I would eventually get. I spent so much time on Cartoon Network's website, and Neopets, and then, I was introduced to web forums. Those are what I like to call my Internet formative years. I wouldn't trade that time in for anything!
Man, seeing KidPix really brings me back. My dad still has a mug he got made with a picture I made in it as a little kid. Cheers, dank, good video, made me smile.
i never saw any old apple product until recently, and i saw this ibook on another channel as well. i love the design and handle (so you can carry your brick easy) and the fact that it was indeed revolutionary to his time. personally speaking i will not carry it around but it's a cool piece of history that must be preserved. i always loved laptops more than desktop lol.
Up until the release of the white iBook, it was common to have any logo on the lid of a laptop face the user when the laptop was closed. Having a laptop was a premium experience and opening it was like opening a Whitman's sampler or a box of fine cigars. This changed with the popularity of the iBook in education and photos of lecture halls full of upside-down glowing Apple logos. For the next generation of laptops, Apple inverted the logo so that it was correctly oriented when looking at the back of an open iBook or PowerBook. The rest of the industry soon followed, with the exception of IBM with the ThinkPad.
@@johnruschmeyer5769 I love ThinkPads. My dad still gets issued an up to date ThinkPad every few years for his job. The internals are always better but the externals are always the same.
It's always bothered me that laptops put the logo so it's right side up when it's open. The one person who uses the machine constantly never gets to look at it the right way.
@@450AHX I question the actual enjoyment levels that a logo's positioning on a laptop can provide. If it somehow does annoy you, surely it would be more annoying to know that the logo is upside down the entire time you're using it
*_Microworlds looks like this old programming language that was described to me as "Imagine the turtle has a pen taped to his tail, and you have to tell it 'tailup' or 'taildown'.' taildown meant it would draw, and you had to tell it how far to go forward, or if it should make turs, and if so, how big of turns?_*
I think we must have had the same childhood because this video was pure, 100 percent, concentrated nostalgia. Legitimately - thank you! This was a gift!
I remember visiting my grandma's house in the middle of nowhere as a child. The only things to do where explore the creepy basement or play bugdom on her imac. Thanks for the memories
I LOVED Bugdom. I used to play it all the time on my grandads iMac G3. We used to have the top of the line iMac G3 in the same blue colour at that laptop. Absolutely loved this era of Apple, by far the most iconic time for them for sure. Think I might have to get some of these stinky machines for the nostalgia. Great vid my guy ❤️
This was such a crazy trip down memory lane! I loved how long the video was, but I could have probably sat here for 5 hours warching you mess around on an old iBook
Holy cow, Kid Pix literally brought up so many memories that I totally forgot where in my head, probably been about 20 years since I even thought about it. Mortality, sweet Jesus.
I was in art school during the 2000s. My first experience with digital art was running Adobe Illustrator 5 through a sour apple green iMac armed with nothing but a mouse that didn't even right-click.
Hey Wade, I saw Matt's vid (Techmoan) on the old Mission Impossible tv show and saw where in a bunch of episodes the little self-destructing tape recorder was a.....(wait for it) ..........a CRAIG!! 😆🤣😂👍
Always loved these designs. Had a lady friend who wrote novellas on one of the old CRT iMacs, and I adored the design of that machine. It was beautiful, lovely keyboard, clean UI, just a lovely machine.
This educational KRAFT-sponsored Software gives a lot of „Oscar meyer‘s periodic table“-vibes. Also interestingly IE:Mac is a completely different engine than the contemporary windows (and Unix!) counterparts
I remember when you could browse and watch videos on RU-vid circa 2007 via a 1997 Thinkpad (well, a used high end business model at least). Good times.
Holy crap, you can just hear the joy in his voice! It’s so contagious! I’m not even that interested in this tech bc I didn’t grow up with it, but just from his pure excitement, it got me just as excited as him! 😆
Fun fact there was a 3rd apple co founder name Ronald Wayne he solid his share of 10% 12 days after apple started its business for less that 800$ at the time
@@fangorn23 Worse than you think, he lives in a trailer and collects stamps. He readily admits that he wasn't ready or willing to dive into the fast paced Silicon Valley culture, and he would have eventually gotten pushed out. Other sources say he was paid $1500.
i was born in 1999 and im american but we share so many core memories this is insane. my school had those clear macs (the ones when steve returned) and those were the first school computers i used. I LOVED THEM. then they took them away the next year :( but i learned how to type with mavis beacon teaches typing… when i saw you start that program up, and saw the screens, i literally gasped and put both hands up over my mouth. wow. thank you for the nostalgia.
