@Anne Honymous right I get that and I'm telling you that you only THINK you're protecting yourself by doing those things...... If you want the industry to shape up the answer isnt to move to another cloud based software suite that will eventually do the same thing, it's to demand regulation so that it is no longer legal to do.
@@laysdong The only thing increasing regulation does is make it easier for corrupt companies to partner with corrupt politicians to pick and choose winners.
@@laysdong I've got news for you, man. The government is just as bad as the corporations and they often work together. The real solution is open source software where anyone can see, revise and compile the code themselves. I agree cloud platforms are a trap.
I knew multi monitor support existed back in the early 90s, but I was surprised to see multiple widescreen LCDs in the 1996 making of Titanic documentary.
@@bitwise2832 Found the retarded linux shill. No shit it was on Unix first. As an OS that was used in the enterprise market it makes sense to have advanced features, for the time, available. Also, if you're an enterprise user, you had the money to dish out for a powerful PC and multiple monitors for a setup. The average home user's PC wouldnt be quite fast enough until about 98 to even think about having multiple monitors, nor was there a lot of use for it. Hence why hardly anyone used it in 98, and most questioned why you would do it. Furthermore, paying up all that money for a powerful system that could handle it and multiple monitors was out of most consumers budgets to begin with. A decent system would cost you at least 10K in 96, and multi-core enterprise workstations much more. A normie could but a fucking car for that money in 96.
@@jeffmccloud905 are you aware of X11? your displays and multi monitors could be anywhere. Had triple monitors on our Sun stations way back... windoze... ugh
This show always did a fantastic job of being balanced regardless of the show sponsors. They showed lots of stuff that competed with Kildall’s software. I always appreciated that aspect of the show.
Well that probably wasn't a coincidence. Microsoft was facing an anti trust lawsuit around this time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
I recently bought PC to run Win98SE and USBs don't work I don't know if it is problem of motherboard or driver. I have that yellow triangle next to it.
its incredible that after all the decline in pc use becouse of mobile phones and tablets, pc its still the same productivity king as 25 years ago… even back then pcs have more multitasking than currentlys phones and tablets..
@@gabnramiwhat are you on about? Most people don’t need computers and for the ones who do we have 16-32 cores being the standard now not including cheap ram and graphics cards that do machine learning.
@@xeong5 im talking about that for prouctivity anything is like a pc, and that even the pcs from 25years ago have more multitask than a new iphone or android phone
@@Lattamonsteri I was also surprised. It's like saying an American guy with an Indian background who has never been to India is "a programmer from India". Then again they claimed deleting browsing history is something secure, full of errors.
@KoivuTheHab True :P My bad. I guess I had written a longer sentence about something and then deleted it and messed up the grammar cuz I didn't doublecheck stuff. Pot calling the kettle black :D I shouldn't have gotten angry to the reporters for making mistakes. Haha.
Elsif Same here. I've used windows 98 until...... you won't believe me but I stopped using it in 2006. My 1,7 Ghz pentium 4 was much slower with windows XP, and windows ME and 2000 were buggier than the 98.
2006? I must admit that's kind of impressive. Hardware limitations are completely understandable. I don't have favorable memories for 2000 or ME, but I think XP=Windows to most people.
Here in mid 2023. I still have at least a couple PC's with 98 on them, specifically 98SE. I stretched that OS out all the way to 2010 & beyond. Then added all the final updates/patches to it with AutoPatcher & RevolutionsPack on top of that. Also tried KernelEx & the hybrid 98SE2ME.
Windows 98 was a game changer. Man, what fond memories of those days! We all felt like pioneers into the electronic era. Now it's all controlled, policed and corporatized. Not that those things are necessarily bad but the direction things are headed towards dictatorial and doing away with fact checking and free speech.
I don't know about that, I went dual monitor and gave it up because it takes up too much space on my desk. I rarely even used it. I have a 24 inch screen, it's all I really need.
It's all about the resolution. I actually went with 2 22" 1080p screens as soon as they were available. That way I can have the big space on the desktop without worrying for a graphics card that can drive games beyond 1080p.
USB was always used without turning the pc off, but hardly angobody used it in Win 95. Stewart was likely pointing out that it's better than Serial and Parallel devices which often needed a reboot to work.
You could install third party apps to do a lot of those functions me thinks. No need for explorer when you had opera and dopus, there an app to handle Wi-Fi and plug-ins me thinks, cracked psp 4 was better than paint, file indexer hmm.
Yuri was so far ahead. He used the two-monitor setup before anyone else had suspected such a thing would be permitted by the gods. The world didn't understand Yuri's vision. They failed him - WE failed him.
The golden age, and it was awful LOL, could barely run video, I remember we had to get separate video cards for MPEG playback and some were pricey as fuck just to support DVD. And then came all the open source video standards.
I was just talking to my now 43 year old son about our experiences with PCs over the years. I gave him a system when he was 3 years old. Here's what I said: "Remember all the systems we burned through starting in 1979 for me and 1982 for you? Let's face it, it was Hell on earth until we got the latest Ryzen based systems last year! We finally have systems that don't make life miserable!" He agreed. From 1979 till 2022 I believe I've burned through $30,000.00 dollars in systems and that excludes monitors, printers, mice, servers and laptops plus applications and special utilities. The total system price is low because I always built my own systems. Oh, and I burned through thousands more buying systems & printers for my wife and son every few years.
I remember the early internet, so exciting, so unknown artists scattered all over the place, you could never anticipate what you would find now, the channels have been reduced and centralized, and I think not improved instead dulled by group think, artists gravitate towards a global aesthetic, stale and commercial : (
@FIRST ORANGE PRESIDENT So true, sometimes I have to stop myself from posting something I would have never posted in the past. I guess over time we've all been conditioned to be more open. Makes you really wonder where we're headed.
@prepareforflight Really, people think Facebook, Twitter, RU-vid and Instagram are the only internet sites, almost as if they are the internet. If you aren't on there, you don't exist anywhere else. "Oh such and such has been removed or banned from Twitter and Facebook, they are gone forever" unknowingly that person has their own website. People are dumb and lazy, totally clueless about anything these days. Websites use to be watering holes for knowledge. Individually unique sources of information where you could form your own opinion. Now people form their opinion based on mass opinion.
I got cable Internet in 97 or 98... high speed internet was starting to roll out to a lot of cities at that time. Granted 99% of the population were still on dial up. I even had a Blackberry in school then, but no one to email since mobile access was entirely novel.
@@coolspot18 get this... my mom was so tech illiterate that she got us cable internet in 1998 because a work friends husband "works in tech and is a tech genius and said we should have cable." I loved the downloading, torrents, napster. BUT... MPlayer and MSNZone and GameSpy still had a TCP/IP optimized for 56k, so did the netcode for Rainbow 6, and when you hosted a game with cable everyone would leave and make sure to not join your room int he future because they would get constant ghosting and skipping/teleporting on the client side, and AS a client on a 56k hosted game, I would have packet loss like crazy for some reason and that game was 1 burst and you're dead. SO... I actually convinced my mom to ditch cable and I got a second phone line with 56k because she was tired of the phone drops. That was actually great I was always a host for that game and it got me in some clans but in hindsight thats amazing that i DIDNT like 4 megs when I was actually one of the few very lucky people to have cable internet. Man those days were nuts. fun note: I would actually get 79ms when a friend in Seattle hosted the games, which my average ping on League of Legends before I stopped playing was around 65 with a gigabit of fiber. Fun times.
@@phillipmarnik every presentation in the computer chronicles had to be rehearsed. It's all so fast (out of TV time needs) that if you just improvise youd make everybody angry in the studio 😂
I remember those days. Man, the video streaming and RealPlayer were game changers back in the day... seriously amazing technology for their time. Windows 98se was great. Then they took about 50 steps backwards and put out the OS that shall not be named. Thankfully XP was around the corner.
I can't get enough of these videos. I hit jackpot gold at my college today. Got snoopy and opened a cabinet in the computer lab and found computers... Mouse.. Keyboard .. Floppy disks. Computer manual from 95 and policy for students using email in the computer lab. There was a huge bag of floppy disks. I am really tempted to ask the college if I can somehow have it... 😬😯
Win95/Win98 were truly multimedia machines. Beautiful times. Nothing will ever give again this level of enthusiasm of playing the original Quake or Half-Life on brand new Pentium...
You are wrong. win 95 constantly crashed. Windows 98 was only slightly better I can play halflife or quake on my phone, I can play them on any of my computers maxed out, with almost zero load times, I can play them on multiple consoles. I get the same amount of enjoyment playing them then as I do now ... only I dont have to suffer windows.
@@sacredgeometry It is not about the MS Windows generally but the overall feeling of the era. You cant duplicate this on modern soulless appliances (I stress the word appliance here because they are not computers anymore) and bland LCD monitor. I would argue that proper period correct CRT monitor was like 85% of the whole experience. The feeling of pressing the start button on beige colored PC, the sound of the hard disk, BIOS showing up in hardware text mode, etc, everything made this era so special. Modern computers suck. Period.
You get it man, and you are right. I also understand the other people here, we have convenience now, but we have lost the passion and experimental mindset. Definitely the feelings computing world gave us back then are much more fulfilling than what we have today.
Thank you so much for releasing this archive, so we can re-live The Computer Chronicles once again. This particular episode is timely for me, as I am building a "new" Windows 98 machine at this time in order to run some vintage games and applications!
19:40 This is like the widgets you could use with Windows Vista/7, eight years before it came out! 23:40 Ladies and Gentlemen, what would eventually become the Blackberry from 1998.
Microsoft QBasic has a help system that's really good. Linux has good help switches on the command line interface. It also has good man pages (manuals). But yeah, generally, you're right that there's a lot of bad help & bad documentation out there.
I recall playing Age of Empires on my Windows 98 machine. It was an AMD Processor, 400 MHZ. I miss those days. I only wish I would have kept the machine.
Aaron Valdes I still play my AOE 2 game on my Windows 10 laptop, all you do is simply change the settings for that particular game on the computer to simulate Windows 98, located in preferences in the game file before opening it. It’s super easy!
@@aaronvaldes3104 : "Thanks for sharing. I will check it out. Is Steam and emulator? Will it run off Debian Linux?" ==Steam is not an emulator. It is more of a software that acts as a shop from where you can buy games and chat with your buddies. Steam has made a Linux client a long time ago. I am running it right now on Kubuntu, and Kubuntu uses DEB packages, so it should work on Debian. Here you go store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey At the top, click on Install Steam.
An option to log onto your company's network automatically without entering a password. Boy, that seems secure! 1998 was a different era from a security standpoint, lol.
Allow me to interject for a moment. What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux. Thank you for taking your time to cooperate with with me, your friendly GNU+Linux neighbor, Richard Stallman.
@@Synthematix Everyone has that bag of shit in their pocket as their everyday computer and it dominates everything outside of business desktops and gaming. That's a pretty good bag of shit lol
Microsoft woman: "We also built in some new troubleshooting wizards, so instead of needing to call through to Product Support--" Stuart: "You get put on hold...." Microsoft woman: "Oh we would never do that to you" I love how she just threw that in there while going 100 MPH the whole time :D
I had to stop the video, I couldn't take her voice, speed and unbridled enthusiasm for more than 18 minutes. (yes, I know it's 2023 so I must include the disclaimer ***my comment was not meant to be sexist in anyway imaginable, I would have said the same about a man, boy, male or whatever the term should be.***) I also know that I'm responding to a 2 year old comment on YoutTube.... don't judge me too harshly please. Or do... Idgaf really. I probably deserve it anyway.
This is such a nostalgia overload. I hadn't seen an episode of this show in over 20 years now. Stewart introduced me to so much awesome tech through the years when this show was still on. I really miss those days when we had so much weird tech.
@@raven4k998 Private browsing session. And if u dont want your isp to know your disgusting fetishes you also use a vpn. But then the vpn might be selling the data and your isp to an extent so it doesnt matter. Privacy died when the product became the user and not his machine.
Man this is great. 98 is a golden time for me, got the Internet, my voodoo card, half life was released. I made myself a 98 machine recently and oh yes I remember the crashes and driver instability 😅 still magic though
I was 8 years old and played Red Alert 1, and Worms 2 with my PC. My dad also bought me for some reason the flight simulator Falcon 4.0, which I tried to play using keyboard. But it was a difficult game for an 8-year old and I didn't know any English either xD. The manual for that game was a lethal weapon as such being such a heavy book xD.
Even though you could go on the internet before Windows 98, to me Windows 98 was the birth of the modern internet OS, with MSN Messenger and computers becoming more standard people using them for the web. As a young teenager at the time, I have very fond memories of 98.
Has technology dominates our lives today, finding this program on RU-vid is so nostalgic for me bringing back family memories technology being advanced in our house over the years through my youth.
So sad Gary Kildall couldn't have a chance to see this generation of operating system. I mean at the time he died, things aren't as sophisticated as this one and it's just been 4 years.
Technology progress, like any other progress, is not fair... 6809 vs 8086, DR-DOS vs MS-DOS, and I bet there are much more examples, which I don't know of. Anyway, Windows 98 beats the shh1t out of anything Microsoft released after Windows XP. Sadly.
Windowz 98 light was good as long as you re-installed it every 6 months, but I have been a Linux user since 2001 and I can never imagine using anything better. Linus is one of my living heros.
i still have win 98 system on my main desk,next to my modern pc. it just makes me happy :) , i use it mostly for retro gaming. win 98 because it also contain ms dos. in 2023.
@@Bestmann3nthat is if you are referring to android, which is indeed based on the Linux kernel. However, besides Chromebook, desktop Linux itself has hardly any traction (yet, hopefully).
@xxGodx you are a special kind of stupid... can you read? or are just forcing interpretations and are a tryhard corrector, you must be fun at partys... with your tinny cache... website was cached. end of story.
I really love these old shows as they bring back a lot of good memories. Back to a time when the internet was a brand new experience that never ceased to amaze me. I started out with Windows 3.0, went to Win 95 then Win 98. Next stop was XP and then to Win 7 and then to Win 10. The one thing I have noticed in all these shows is that not once do they address the "Blue Screen of Death" that came up quite frequently back in the day. But even though, it was still a lot of fun back then.
"Blue Screen of Death" is hard to explain in simple terms other then you need to reset your computer, people to this day don't know how to properly read what BSOD means in specific case
Amazing to see how even Stewart was kind of unsure about USB plug and play at this time. It was actually mindblowing back then to plug something in and just have it work without a formal installation process!
But websites where you could watch videos existed in 1998. Maybe you could have said, next thing they're going to tell me that I could surf the web on my phone. :-)
I really liked the Windows 95 computer and I did eventually get Windows 98 Second Edition. It clearly improved the various functions of my PC so that I can work with it at greater efficiency.
6:31 WHOA! I don't know what blows me away more about video calls in 1998 on Windows 98, the power of the hardware required, no, available at the time that allowed that, or the internet speeds to do such a thing, neither of which did I know actually existed back then. In my defense though, I was born in '94 and had brief experiences with Windows 95 and 98 while living in the middle of nowhere and thus had dial-up for over a decade as our only internet. I'm certain my father's Windows 98 machine had the horsepower for video calls, but there's no way our dial-up internet could ever handle it even on it's best day.
Only the very few at the time could get live-streaming going in the 90s, remember when many webcams were just a still image that refreshed like 5 times a minute? 😂
I remember upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 when it first came out for my Pentium 266Mhz with 512MB RAM purely because my BIOS wouldn't support my 30GB hard drive (read as only 8GB). I pushed that Pentium computer to the limit 2ith a first generation Radeon video card, DVD ROM with separate decoder card, a 4x HP CD-RW and Yamaha sound blaster compatible sound card. I even overclocked the processor to 300Mhz (which I did by accident as the board didn't technically support it). It benchmarked better than many Pentium 2 systems. I loved that computer.
@@OpenGL4ever With Windows 98 I had 2 use a drive overlay software that caused some slow down but Windows 2000 ignored what the bios reported and read the drives full capacity.
I started using Linux back then too laughed at told it was shit inferior etc those same people wonder why I rarely encounter issues with Linux compared to the instability and resource devouring windows and Linux is much more secure and updates are quick and easy
@@wayneholzer4694 Linux is security through obscurity and windows NT kernel has about same stability as far as consumer usage goes. As for issues.. every system has them. Difference between windows and linux is the support you get. With windows commercial support is huge because there are so many users, but with linux only 2/100 power users might have a clue wtf are you even talking about.
@@beardsntools Not really. Vulnerabilities in windows are often telemetry based, as windows is designed to constantly mine info on users. Adding the complexity of monitoring user usage adds endless potential security vulnerabilities. Azure and Microsoft 365 vulnerabilities as of late have been based on poor security and easily faked security certs, security is only important in the short term where they say here are the current vulnerabilities and here's the update, but look into Eternal Blue and how Microsoft patched an NSA exploit before the shadow brokers released it. Big red flag. If the focus was on the user actually using the computer securely, for example the operating system would not rely on an internet connection for the majority of system functions, it would be a great deal more secure. Linux literally doesn't have any of those processes going on, even Ubuntu which includes telemetry allows you to opt out with a single check during installation. What you end up with in Linux is a system that only does what you want it to do - No, I don't want to use Windows Phone or Skype or One Drive or whatever. So yeah, Linux is for advanced users, and it will always represent at most 3-5% of all computer users, but that's in essence across the board how things look for specialists. How many people are building kubernetes clusters? Maybe 0.1% of the population, and yet it runs the world.
@@julesl6910 No no, my point stands undefeated. Nobody would care to discover and exploit whatever types of exploits you just listed if windows had 1% of user base like linSux. Security through obscurity is real and it is a thing that you both benefit and don't benefit at same time(because obscurity also means, nobody cares to make anything worth doing for freetard os.) Also everyone turns off telemetry and people who dont probably have nothing worth spying anyway. Oh lol ubuntu has telemetry too... haha, it's the most popular ditro xD... so much for spyware free linsux experience lol.. oh wow you can turn it off during installation? so you can in windows, lmao.. if you only actually tried to install any recent version of windows, after xp, you wouldn't brag about that lol
I wonder how they had such a stable Windows 98 experience. I used to get BSOD's daily, ESPECIALLY if I used Internet Explorer. Sometimes something as simple as plugging in a USB scanner would cause a blue screen of death. I also had to deal with IRQ conflicts causing my sound to glitch out or stop working when I was using a 56k modem. I was so happy when I upgraded to Windows 2000, that was a stable OS.
That was my experience too. Blue screens on a daily basis, and sometimes it was just a cryptic error message when Explorer stopped responding. I think I might have gone through one or two days without at least one reboot. It was absolutely terrible.
The interview was arranged beforehand. The problem was if you had many different programs and hardware all running with different configurations and dependencies
All the MS DOS based OS up through 98se/ME were pretty unstable. When they switched to NT based OS with Win2kPro I was so happy. Finally a widows system that you could run like Linux or Unix but that also let me game on it with a good 3d card and sound card. No more needing to dual boot just to play a new game.
My old duron 800, voodoo 3 with 512 mb memory ran win98se none stop for 14 months. ( I've played quake2 , quake3, starcraft etc . Make music on a DAW and visited the web. It never crashed. I loved my old machine.
@@saskiavanhoutert6081 My favorite Linux OS is Ubuntu. Some time ago when it was possible I compiled Android OS from some instructions and it worked after some tries. The feeling when I made Android working was amazing and I respect Linux for life because of that.
What a humble man Linus was 22years ago. Ff 2020 and I woul never ever trade my ubuntu for Windows. Not in a million years. Great respect for all coders and contributors who help build and develop linux platform.
@@common_c3nts because of the price you pay: you give up the control of the machine and put it in the hands of Microsoft. Windows is also extremely bloated and the UI is terrible.
I know you guys are going to rip on '98, but let's be honest. It was the Windows 95 fix that actually fixed Windows 95. It was the last and best FAT32 System. And it was the go to operating system until XP took it off it's pedestal.
Mahnn, I still remember my days as a junior tech when windows 98 was released and the legal battle that followed soon after due to Windows 98's tight integration with internet explorer - was one of the dominant topics in the tech world at the time
I had a Windows 98 computer which I later changed for an iMac. It was soooo crappy and crashed all the time, but in hindsight I believe it was due to crappy RAM :) now I miss those days, it was so cool accessing the Internet back in 1998
I remember setting up Windows 98 for my grandfather back in the day. A number of system sounds were replaced with HAL 9000 recordings. His name is Dave. It was funny.
I remember my old Windows98 PC. It ran great and smooth. Than I upgraded on Windows Me and the very same machine runs horrible compared to 98. Than XP came out and the same machine ran great again :) In this specific perspecitve it was a great time in my life. Medal of Honour, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and on NBC-Europe "Giga Games" every evening.
I heard, that many people had issues with windows 98. Maybe I was too conservative in the use of my computer. Yes, it crashed sometimes but not more often than 95 and not less than Windows Me.
I used to love my Win98 laptop back when I was about four. Of course it never got any real use; never any custom software but it lived with one install for its' whole life.
In my experience, Windows 98 doesn't like when hardware isn't installed or configured correctly or when something doesn't work right. But if you install everything properly and use your computer normally, (and except some of the crappy softwares you could find on those days), it actually works really great ! You may say "nah you were just lucky" or "take off your nostalgia glasses", but the thing is : last time I used windows 98 was ... Yesterday. Yes I still use windows 98 in 2017. Of course not for web browsing, using spreadsheets or basicaly making any serious stuff on it, I use it only to play retro video games. And I've installed it on many computers and I always managed to make the problems go away if I had some. Sure it's easy to screw up the OS, but this is mostly due to other softwares that were badly made. Yes the OS shouldn't allow these softwares to alterate the OS so badly it would make it unable to work, but once you know what makes it go wrong, you know how to avoid it.
You used to have to understand more about how your device worked. Windows 98, plug and play, and USB really helped a lot. We were pioneers in those days. So many people had no idea how to use a computer or what the Internet even was. The games back then were so fun too.
