They are our past. We should treat these pieces of technology with respect. Because surely they were someones childhood, and they setted the bases for what we have today.
These machines were actually a joy to use. Put Linux on it, and it goes much faster. I remember that feeling after hooking it up to all the lights in the house, and putting cgi programs (written in C) on it to control them remotely, and using ipchains to do NAT (what your WiFi router does, now) to get everybodys machine on the Internet at the same time through 1 dialup modem connection before there were even wired routers. These machines were awesome!
You are not fitting any modern distro into 64 megs of RAM and getting anywhere near the experience Windows 98 offered. Even getting to a text console in that amount of RAM takes some pretty careful planning. Most distros are dropping support for i386 in entirety. I think even Debian is due to drop it with the trixie 13.0 release. Either that or trixie is supposed to be the last one.
You aren't fitting the distro, you're just fitting the kernel. I still use FVWM on a few machines. No, they don't use the mainline kernel, or a distro, unless Slackware still counts as a distro.
@@sedrosken831 This machine has a pentium II though, which would be i686 and thus still supported for a quite a while. Your only real roadblock would be lack of SSE or SSE2 support (the former of which can be remedied by upgrading the CPU to a Pentium III) but with a RAM upgrade this thing could easily still get an X11 desktop going on a light enough distro (like a Puppy Linux flavor, Alpine, Arch, or even Gentoo if you want to go that route)
Bro my PC literally makes weird noises when i turn it on "TRRRRBEUTRIP Edit: WTH OVER 40 LIKES??I know its just a button but thats the most ive ever gotten Thanks to everyone who liked on this reply!!
@@NPCroblox. Thats because Microsoft ended updates and all technical support for Windows 7 in January 14th 2020. The reason is unkown but it might be because Microsoft is trying to get people to upgrade to Windows 10 and have a more and reliable software to use at that time.
you should downlead most median free x86 PC emulator , DOSBox, is ready available, example, any windows 311, set it, from the time it take go from starting emulator to fully loading emulated PC operating system, less time than it takes just word, and yet anyway being how great optimised the latest operating systems are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same with me, the first piece of tech i encountered was a Tim phone (a literal brick) and a small laptop that i still have today. Small enough it has 512 mb of ram
If you use an old PC, you can connect to modern wifi. This guy didn't have to deal with the noise of dialup so I'm not sure why he made it seem like its such an inconvenience.
I have a old typewriter and it takes zero seconds to turn on, uses less electricity than my gaming laptop It also has no CPU and no RAM The whole thing is powered by a single electric motor
It is then a analog typewriter, it probably can run on power from a mobile phone charger. It doesn't need a cpu, ram or anything as the typewriter may have a rubber seal and the keys will use it to stamp the letters onto the paper. Fun fact : the shift key on some typewriters actually shifts the entire stamping assembly as the small and large letters are above or below eachother
@@agoogleuser2619 it's a IBM selectric III It runs purely mechanical with the power source being the motors turning force which uses electricity it stamps letters to the page after
nah we actually get decent chromebooks at my school I always see kids breaking theirs somehow even though i've had my original for almost 2 years now 💀
My first PC had a 10 mb HDD and 64 kb of RAM. There wasn't enough storage for the text documents I was writing so I had to load them on and off of 768kb 5.25 floppies. Our 14.4 kbps modem took 10 minutes to load an image into our monochrome orange screen. Computers today are AMAZING.
@@haagenslash5963 Damn that's such a long wait. I don't have my own PC/laptop but when my mobile is laggy or loading is taking too long I get so frustrated. 😖
Bruh of course it doesn't load webpages because it was not designed for modern internet. I can assure you that for doing time appropriate tasks it works perfectly fine
10gb hard drive. I had Lego Island 2 on my windows 98. I loved it. I lost the CD, but I got a new one, I traded it for Lego Racer. Games were so fun I upgraded my 64mb of RAM to 128. Super computer. Lol.
When I was in school, our computers were BBCs and later Acorn Archimedes. The 90’s PC I built with Windows 95B was amazing in comparison as I played Tomb Raider and Flight Unlimited II on it.
Me stuck on Windows 7: I want to update it to 11 but media creation tool does not work. And I don't see any updates, just window 7 updates. The past: We have windows 98
@@kirekocev2587 Here is the issue. I want to update my windows 7 computer to 11. So I was trying media creation tool in Google, it errored. I trid the "64 bit", it errored. So ty if you helped. I will subscribe to you
Pinball was completely incompatible with 64 bit processors and Microsoft had to spend a lot of money to make it compatible with trickery because people needed it
I feel like the only thing that kept us sane while the computer loads something is fidgeting with random things both inside the computer and the real computer’s hardware
I have an old pc with windows 2000 and another one with windows xp. You can still use these computers daily with some modern programs it will be slow though and a lot of things may not be compatible
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Let me explain. Nobody in college, if lucky, literally used the dial-up to go to the Internet, or on the local file shares at the time. They used the university network, which was not only faster(if your PC or laptop had a network card), but also much more versatile for sonething like IRC chats, or an occasional LAN party. And the Internet wasn't as widespread as today. 64 MB of RAM was pretty standard for 1999, while 256 MB was high end. If you also account that the best processor at the time was the Pentium 3. If you used the PC with Windows 95/98, it was pretty much a death sentence on a TCP/IP network, because network-based exploits were pretty simple compared to today, Windows 95/98 didn't work with TCP/IP properly, so you could actually get locked out of the server, because the network thought that you're attacking it, while you're actually typing it's name, and with just one bad Word document, your whole computer could go banans.
Yeah, I was 13 in 1997 and really got into computing (I'm a web developer now adays). Things were rough until about 2006-07 when computers improved. My first PC was a Compaq before I built one of my own. I still have nightmares with the dial-up modem noises...
The slowness is so true. I remember turning on the computer and have time to get a drink, look outside thinking how great it looks and MAYBE it would be on the main screen 😆
Fun fact, websites didn't even take that much longer to load. They were just programmed using HTML and as little images as possible. Nowadays, MOST programmers / companies don't bother about the SIZE of their application. They just throw AWS CDNs on it and hope their site is being delivered fast enough for all users.
Remember how LOUD the speakers on these things were, I remember owning an old win98 pc and the speakers would make you deaf if you accidentally set it too high.
I loved playing with those old screens when I was in high school. Every time you turn it off, they give off static electricity. I used to place my hand on the monitors and then zap my classmates. And we would all have a zapping war, lol. 🤣
the fact that humanity accomplished a lot of things with those computers is just mind blowing. a lot of space discoveries were made, a lot of medicines being produced, a lot of diseases and illnesses discovered, a lot of cool architectures were done unlike modern day boring square buildings, heck we even sent a couple of guys on the moon using a computer decades older than that one. i wouldn't even be bothered to do my work if my laptop lags for a few seconds every minute. goes to show how we take things for granted.
I actually have zero complaints using the windows 95 computer, i like the convenience of modern puters but something about the old click clacks and knobs is so nostalgic that i still use the ball mouse to this day.
wow this just brought back memories. this was the old pc in my childhood home! I have the fondest memories of playing video games that came on dvd discs on that thing. We always got them from the library lol!! I can't believe I'm seeing it again.
