Young People Try Windows 98 

I mean, let's be fair, if win98 was a house, Anthony and LGR would be living next to each other. XD

@@IngwiePhoenix if win98 was a house, ...I'd burn it down. sorry, can't go on with it. without the nostalgia factor (and intentionally installing it for some retro setup), neither antony nor clint would happily install vanilla win98 to enjoy as their daily driver. 98 was a horrible mess on release; less chaos than 95(+patches), but a pain in the butt until OSR2(.5)

For those of us that were into computers back then. Win98 was really where we learned to hack and tweak the OS, about Windows networking and the old winsock reset fix when all else failed (similar symptoms and cause as today's need for -flushdns on ipconfig). I doubt any of us that cut our teeth on that OS and it's predecessor will ever forget either. They were tedius enough to build muscle memory.

@@GutnarmEVE i agree, my retro gaming goes back as far to XP. XP is still good to this day (execpt the security flaws )

@@GutnarmEVE Windows 95 had OSR releases. Windows 98 had one Service Release and then Service Pack 2.

😅🤣😆😂

Yeah, I'm shocked to know that he is only 3 years older than me. Kinda gives inspiration

Wait he is one year YONGER than me??? What???

Linus ain't that old either...did he do commodore 64 or just visit one...

I think it is for a joke

Quick compared to ? And what software exactly? There wasn't t much more than Win98 to compare with. MS DOS ? Widows for Workgroups ? It was just as fast or slow. Games took a while to load (as they do now, but that's a different story). Win NT was also just as clean and fast loading stuff. Linux was pretty hard to set up… but just as clean and fast. Even cleaner. macOS? Fast. Clean interface. Windows 7? Windows 10, Windows 11? Fast, clean interface. Mac OS X, any version? Fast Clean interface. Any Linux desktop out-of-the-box? Fast, clean interface. Unless by “loading” you mean loading web pages… which would have been a tad difficult with Win98 in the beginning and was a real PIA later when internet finally appeared. I am not sure if you recall the times of Mosaic and CompuServe. It was a torture to load a proper web page. Then came IE and Netscape… anything but “fast loading” . And that in the rare cases when a page actually loaded, and you didn't have to reload it several times… We mostly used IRC, Usenet and mailing lists for anything serious. You can have an interface as clean as you want it, that's a personal choice, not something inherent to the operating system or desktop environment. Also: Many times slow loading performance is a self-inflicted illness when we stuff our computers to the brim with antiviruses, firewalls and “security” software meant for threats that don' t even exist anymore, when simply enabling Windows Defender is enough on any Windows version since Windows 7. Of course, if you use to visit questionable sites or click on emails from Nigerian princes, no antivirus will safe you. I worked for Symantec in the mid-late 2000s, that's how I know. I have also been using Windows 7 and 10 professionally for a very long time without a single case of infection. TL;DR: Don't clutter your desktop with “themes” and don't install silly antiviruses, and you will have a clean interface and your programs will load fast.

Win95 was worse@@VFella

@@VFella Win 98 was quick if you had reasonable hardware.

@@dannygjk Oh, I didn't know that. Learned something new, for sure. I'm an IT professional, BTW. I have used Windows from Win1.1 on all sorts of hardware. And it wasn´t that there was much to choose back then. And I seriously doubt that it would beat MS DOS or MS DOS plus Novell Netware or Win NT, which was what it was competing with. Not to mention Mac OS 8 and later Mac OS 9. The latter was so nice that I installed myself a Power Macintosh G3 (the green one!!) in 2006 to use along WinXP. Nah, dude, computers were terrible slow back then. And it wasn't just the perception from somebody used to modern top-notch hardware, it felt slow back then too.

@@VFella With each iteration of Windows they increased the demand the OS put on the hardware. I expect when I go to Win 11 I will need a super computer to maintain the same performance.

I know right. Thought he was 25-27 something

I knew he was 17 when he started working there, didn’t realise it had been 5 years already.

He was doing LTT in high school? If he is this knowledgeable now imagine him in 15 years

He was still in high school when he was hired at LTT. His responsibilities reflect how long he's been working there.

explains a lot IT-wise

I want to see them try dos to be honest. That's what I grew up with

a n i m e n i m e

He is infinite years old after all. 😉🤣

he's certainly 'next level'

@@vardekpetrovic9716 DRDOS was always a good choice.

may his soul RIP 🙏

ur dad died when you were 10?

@@White_Night_Demon 11 :> Almost

@@magnutron damn i was 1 year off!

@@White_Night_Demon Pish posh :|

Indeed, so much that makes me think he's my age! but no, he's quite younger (I'm 50). It's just that IMO this man was a fantastic wise nerd already at the time of birth.....! :O

It's like all tech he ever interacted with is indexed for all eternity in that beautiful mind of his.

@D Now that you say it... I started college (or uni, as we say in EU) in '91. I ended High school (tho the length of that varies from country to country) dunno if in '90 or '91, as classes begin on September. So, even Windows 95 was not something that existed for me till almost ending college (I handled DOS and the arcane and previous Windows 3.11). Lol, I even remember yet handling some DOS based graphic programs in 4th college year. I ended Fine Arts in '96, but should have ended in '95, I believe (made a first year in maths career, then changed my path). But somehow he seems a tad younger than 50, dunno... I've always imagined he'd be around 30 - 35 , lol.

​@D Sorry the late reply, been busy... It has been a particularly warm summer (still on it ofc). But really, I live in the warmest area of Spain, southern EU, we got 40º- 45º C every summer, with peaks of 47 sometimes (in Seville and Cordoba, only, and 40 -42 _max_ (in summer) usually in the rest of the half southern part, including Madrid, the north is cold and rainy...Except this year!! ).. It's been just like that. Honestly, the main difference in my south area (but people in Galicia (north) are not used to this) has been that it has been longer, for longer days, and that that the hottest days have been sooner. But not higher peaks. Right now we have a few days with very good temps (32 - 36) for this time of the year. The worst issue (that's why we're getting so many fires) is the lack of rain for a very long time. The water dams (reservoirs) are close to empty in the south (14% or so, and in some places it's 1% !, average of 40% sth in the country). But of course, it's _much_ worse in Africa. In the rest of EU, well, it's crazy, as they don't get ever these temps. In satellite view it can be observed how the south-east of England has become yellow, instead of green (from that view). And in much northerner countries (Finland, etc) they have had people suffering from this (in some countries even with heat strokes), as for them 35 C is a heat wave. Just like for us 20 or 30 C below zero is absolutely terrible (my winter gets 0 degrees as lowest, only 3 or 4 days). The entire continent has had struggles with climate (and I'm afraid each year is going to get worse, it's the change). But it's that we're used to very moderate conditions and no disasters, while in Asia, Africa or America, a lot more disasters (floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc) happen. Right now the issues are fires all over EU, mostly due to the very dry weather and that the land has been abandoned, as few people working on it leaves a ton of combustible vegetation (dry bushes, leaves) that used to be cleaned by the animals and the people. Bad timing with the energy issues and the war. But we'll manage.

IKR, bloody loved that. In that generation you could bork the game by editing the config files, which weren't compressed yet. I loved playing Tiberian Sun with an AT-AT firing blue lasers at obscene range. 🤣

@@InservioLetum oh I think I still have a floppy full of different versions of ra2.ini somewhere. It was a primitive version of game modding.

I would bet good money Anthony is or was a spring player. Basically community improved and balanced C&C with way more robust netplay. I was introduced to it like 20 years go and it's still going pretty strong.

Anthony was actually on his 4th game when they cut back to him and was about to start a blindfolded run when he was told to move on.

I spent so many hours playing C&C:RA back in those days. Loved it.

Me 2, still use dxdiag. Every time I get a new work computer and I need to see what spec they actually gave me.

I use dxdiag to check what graphics card is installed. Before I switched to linux I used to use win7 until mid 2023. For a while I was forced to use win10 at work and I couldn't be bothered to find where the c drive was so i just used win+r and typed c:

My dad loved it so much, he also used it his on USB thumb drives.

jep

Still have that urge to defrag. It really did feel pretty good. And it definitely felt like everything ran faster afterward. Because the blocks changed color. Of course it's faster now. Problem solved.

I used to start it before bedtime, and fall asleep while watching it. I turned out normal despite that

Yep, but when hours turn into days you lose interest pretty fast. "Defrag not completed as it is full of errors". You get so frustrated you FORMAT C: and lose everything.

@Henry-Atkinson: I'm a mechanical man :-) . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iGuuOdD6iY4.html (Yeah, I'm grooving to the song :-) ).

there is a remastered version for that one but I really hope they do Tiberian Sun next or just a new C&C game

@@jhonshephard921 See I wish EA weren't such greedy bastards and weren't milking the IP for all it's worth with "remasters" that could be accomplished just as easily with free upscalers and community mods. I'm mainly just salty that, in order to legally purchase C&C Generals, which the me of 2004 didn't have the hardware to run, I'll have to pay for the full C&C collection--half of which I already own--and play it through their stupid launcher.

Anthony is GOD!

@@GSBarlev The C&C Remaster was well done and fairly cheap, the original game is a pain in the ass to get going and the fan made versions like OpenRA are solid but it isn’t the same. It was a good love letter to fans, Tiberium Sun was kinda unfinished when it came out so a remaster that finishes the work they started would be great.

hehe

He is a genius I swear

Funk and Wagnalls or Brittanica? 😆

Anthony FTW!

His age being displayed as ∞ (infinite) at 2:32 just makes sense.

Some of us were there when the old magic was written

I know, huh... Like the "play CD audio from the front panel" challenge. Man that one had so many "oh crap, I'm old" moments. "It sounds really good" -- yeah, 'cause it's not a 96kbps stream from a subscription service played over a Bluetooth keychain fob. It was CD audio. :-) * loads Windows Media Player * ... no, you can't use that, because the front-panel analog audio port won't work.. Er, right... see, CD-ROMs had analog playback before we all used DAE. Oh, um, DAE is "digital audio extraction", which reads audio data directly from the CD instead of ... * sigh * So, a CD is a disc that has music on it. But, like, you can use it offline ... which is ... yeah, so, "offline" ... OK, imagine going into airplane mode, but it's like 24/7...

Oh yeah, I know the feeling. Some months ago I had to explain to a 26 years old girl what a floppy disk was, in that moment I realized that I'm starting to pile up years xD

I know I was born in 99 and used xp, 98, dial up, and have known about C&C forever. I'm like "how do you not know dial up?" Also dial up was your phone connection as well, so that's why you could use the pc as a phone and make calls. Even though it would sound absolutely terrible.

Just ask him what modem bonding is, that will stump most

@@mima85 lol what? I'm 27 and remember my dad having piles of those and having few myself with some dos games 😄

98 was so good. Like, literally never had any issues with it, everything worked as it should.

Anthony is the GOAT

Maybe because he's a script writer?)))

Anthony ☕

Infinity years old 😁

I relate the most to Anthony on this video tbh.

I aspire to describe old tech as well as Anthony.

The "A" in "Anthony" is for AWESOME!!

@@steveg6199 I'd say it's probably "Ancient"

Haha Anthony is the goat!

I appreciate this comment so much. I was playing C&C two days ago for nostalgic reasons at work and I had post millennia babies asking me what game I was playing. I had to refer to Starcraft 2 for them to know what I was talking about. I was proud to tell them that this is the RTS king that started it all.

It's burnt into our brains. Just like the music! Dunn Da-Dunn Da-Dunn-Dunn, Da-Dunn-Dunn Dum Dum, Dunn Da-Dunn Da-Dunn-Dunn, Da-Dunn-Dunn Day Doy! Booo Booo Booo Booooooouu, Bwow wow woohoooo! .... ok, I'll stop

@@them3atstick753 At least you didn't have to say "You know these MOBA games? Also, you know Tower Defence games? Well, back in the day, we actually had a genre of game which combined both of these into one. Actually, that was what started it all, before it was split into two..."

@@silkwesir1444 dunn dunn dunn dunn dunn - just do it up!

Jake is older than me by 2 years and i played cnc red alert lol

Thats awesome! He brought you up well.

You the real MVP! 🗿

My story/background is exactly like yours. My dad was the IT enthusiast, who would buy the latest and greatest to learn for his job requirements as he didn't have money to pay for seminars and get CE's, so he just taught everything himself pulling all-nighters via books like the For Dummies series and a few others, and in turn also taught me things along the way. I am now a subject matter expert in my IT MOS in the Army while also managing an IT business full-time and dabble with AI/ML while he enjoys his retired life sticking to Win7 and reminiscing the good ol' XP days haha. But all that I was able to achieve and accomplish was all on the foundation he helped me build. Crazy how some of us come from completely different walks of life but still end up with astonishingly similar backgrounds/foundations just from the years we were born and the era we grew up in lol.

In 1998 I got a computer from The Catholic Church that had an "evaluation build" of Windows 2000 Professional - I had the baddest OS of all my friends and it was my first real computer.

This describes my childhood pretty well too. the 90's were an amazing time to grow up with computers and the internet.

Anthony is the consummate technology expert. He encounters something old and explains as fully as possible in the given time, the context and functionality.

@@vinnietedeschi5374, I think he's an attention seeker. He was meant to be a part of this segment but he put on his "Docu-voice" and explained all the things nobody asked him to.

@@MaffeyZilog Says the Dude writing a comment nobody asked for. Oh wait so am I :0 ...it almost seems like we all need a bit of attention sometimes. Also its literally his job to explain stuff. If you dont like him thats fine but why make up some bs pschoanalysis?

@@abehme Are you OK after that meltdown? Tears dry yet, little fella?

@@MaffeyZilog Aww how cute. Masking the lack of rethorical skill with belitteling. But hey its okay to cope Im not judging.

It's his PC.

I love that his age was the infinity symbol. Thusly proving that Anthony is, in fact the modern deity of computing. I am making a screen saver with a spinning Anthony head so my computer can pay homage.

I would watch a 25 min anthony with just him playing old shit and talking

Everyone else, even Linus, is struggling and asking how they do something; Anthony is providing all of the back story to how the drivers worked. Knowing the right Soundblaster profile to work with his sound card is the biggest flex in this whole video.

@@robertdavezac Yep, he even got that obscure bit about the CD players right, left out that some (most that I saw) had the play/pause button on the front, if the system was powered on you didn't even need Windows to play a CD.

Username checks out

@@robertdavezac I'm absolutely with you - excpept for the Soundblaster Pro Settiing. Everyone playing games with some kind of Soundcard in his PC knew that back in the day- it was the inofficial standard every sound card had to comply to be useable for games for years - and therefore only such card would be bougth by anyone in the first place. Sound Blaster compatible was typically written on the package, Soundblaster Pro meant it was stereo, as far as I remember.

luckily ctrl + shift + ESC works, that's literally the only way I know how to open the task manager on Win11

@@MikeDawson1 it's the simpler way tbh

Right click the start button

@@MikeDawson1 Right click start and chosse Taskmanager from there. Not hard to find out.

@@MikeDawson1 Right click the windows icon on the taskbar.

Aweeee! I forgot about the hourglass next to the cursor😂🥰

And next it happened was with night mode in apps.

Guilty

I used W98 a lot and never did it :P

agreed that yellow or light blue made it so bad haha

windows with networking support lmao 3.11 but that ran on dos and i go back to ibm dos ver 3 ,something try a 20 hertz cpu with 12 meg of ram and 9600 baud communication

Got someone of my age. Mine was 3.1, in my computer training center. 98 SE and 2000 were so advanced feeling at the time they came in. I felt like we have reached the peak of humanity.

@@mobiousenigma Megahertz surely? :D

@@mobiousenigma if it had 12.megs of ram and 9600 baud comms it was 20 megahertz. 20 hertz couldn't run a data connection that fast

Yea, I thought he was in his 30s...my first Windows os was 95 too and I was born in 81.. I was later introduced into 98..

man... ME. What a terrible shit show that was. I was given an old Dell Optiplex that had Windows ME from an old childhood friend/girlfriend. I figured I'd give it an honest go to see if ME was actually as bad as what everyone said it was. It didnt last a week before I nuked it and installed 98.

I was literally pausing the video as I couldn't believe it.

Yeah, I assumed he was in his 30s, he's just a baby compared to Linus 😂

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_DIO9JZgek0.html

A while back I thought he would be at best a -98'er and more likely to be born in 1996-1997 because IIRC he started at LTT right after school but alas.

He has the look of a man who will look the same for at least four decades. People looking at his pictures far in the future will have no idea when that picture was taken just by looking at his face.

D'awwwww.

Reminds me of people who thought the CD tray was a cupholder, & used it as such. Or that old lady who tried drying her poodle in the microwave after a shampoo.

@@RogerThat1945 haha cd as cupholder never heard before only americans can get to it

@@unnamedsoldier5446 idk what being american has to do with a cd tray cupholder lol

@@peik_haikyuu2265 because no one in the world woud figure it out for this 😂

Me too, 95 in school, 98 at home. Then xp for ages.

I know right!!!! How the F*** and I older the Jake. I turn 24 this month and I'm still in collage. Man I feel old and useless in comparison to Jake.

How would you know it's so much better than 95 if that was your first one? I mean, you downgraded later?

@@nickcollins1052 that's ok! I did my masters at age 27. College life is fun though try to enjoy it unless you're from STEM field then we are basically fucked for life.

@@Arts11234 Education. So not much better when like 80% of the shit being taught to you is useless once you get into your job because to be able to do it requires resources your never gonna have, money your never gonna have enough of, or children that act like mindless obedient robots which they never will

Edzel did the editing on this one

@@westonjones6670 you meant Aprime.

I mean have they ever heard of Starcraft?

@@alext3811 Dune friggin 2, broheim.

@@23wtb Huh, guess my Gen Z is showing.

@@23wtb Dune2 could be a 1.2MB phone game these days! Or the minigame on your PIPBOY3000!

He reminds me one of my computing tutors at Uni back in the late 00's when I was a mature student. Made things so easy to understand (this was hardcore network stuff too!) This video made me feel so old though. I was in my late teens when 98 came out!

His ability to be in explanation mode is great. Few things in life make you feel like successful talker like explaining computers to your mother's friend. I remember trying to explain trying to find fault in her computer and ending up saying "Computer is yeah, one device but it is actually like... a BUNCH of devices even in the same one board this laptop has... And you just have to figure out or guess where the issue is and pray it is not something I as humble semi-free support can do stuff about." Luckily, it usually is hard drive and I may extra luckily have a spare I do not need nor need to be paid extravigantly for but that one time someone with laptop says "Someone said it might be the GPU, can't we just replace the GPU" to which I answer, in very different manner, "Yes, if we were Louis Rossman, but we are in a country with zero Rossmans so pray it is not that."

Anthony is really a walking PC knowledge library. I wonder if I could remember that good if I try 98 again as he does. But I mean is was directly on 98 SE as I get my first Windows PC, avoid the PC for a long time in the 90s.

Anthony should just have an online class for computers, ok I kid but still....

@@SumeaBizarro Similar experiences here, except... usually it's not hard drive. usually it's a software problem, so a fresh reinstall will help. If it's not that, it usually is either RAM or some unspecific "must be something wrong with the motherboard because we ruled out everthing else"...

I was waiting for someone to say that “ohhh it’s the OneDrive!”

@@lcrazy8l I made a comment in another post but it was more often used in business settings to sync network drives to laptops as laptops did not have mobile internet available to them or it was too slow to use. So YA it is almost EXACTLY like OneDrive/Dropbox.

Pretty amazing when you consider how everything is constantly connected to the internet now. Just wasn't the case back then.

​@@thestig007 Less less impressive when you grew up before the internet but I know my kids have a hard time comprehending it. The impressive part of the internet for me is the access to information. I am more impressed with the computing power of my phone in my pocket. Could do a whole series on early Pocket computers / PDAs / Smart Phones. The iPhone triggered such a SUDDEN massive leap in that market it is more jarring than going back through old versions of windows on a PC.

@@YKSGuy You're definitely correct there. The smart phone brought computing to a totally different level. For better, or for worse...

That's my vibe and I love it.

Briefcase was NOT used for syncing PDA's. That's what ActiveSync was for. Briefcase was for floppies. You would bring your work docs in the floppy, run briefcase and it would update the files with the one in the floppy. Then you work with the files on the Briefcase and sync with your floppy when done. It was supposed to be simple. Nobody ever used it AFAIK.

@@mrdownboy I think you could also use it via network (in the loosest sense, i.e. not only Ethernet but also Null-Modem-Cable etc.) which actually would be the preferred choice if you had the option. To do it with floppies was just an afterthought to accomodate those less fortunate. Ultimately it was intended for laptop users, I think, and I also doubt it was used much at all.

*wisdom, young grasshoppa.

@@InservioLetum According to multiple dictionaries, wisdom is more widely used but believe it or not, wiseness is technically a valid word.

Or watching old movies and tv shows

@@gongandfriends I can't tolerate laugh tracks any more. When i go back and watch old comedies that I used to like, just can't do it any more because once you're aware of how ridiculous and pointless the laugh track is, you can't undo. Even if i still like the show and it's still funny, just can't get past more than 5 minutes because of the laugh track.

TBH the UI customization in Windows95/98 is way more sophisticated than from Vista to now (XP had an option to use the old 95/98 UI). 95/98 let you change the color of most any UI component and the font of most any UI component. Windows 11 only dreams of being that customizable. Yea Stardock Windowblinds/Curtains is a thing, but that doesn't even work on Windows 11 these days. Hopefully Microsoft is addressing the lack of customization in Windows 12... but I doubt it.

@@Mr.Morden "95/98 let you change the color of most any UI component"

I have that feeling in 50% of the cases, that's true for old movies, music or books, too. Some stuff didn't age well, some I've grown out, but some holds up really well and I realize quite often that there was more to it One of the games I played on 95 and 98 was Star Wars Rebellion and I still play it on Steam with the same graphics, just an optional battle system doesn't work properly anymore. Baldur's Gate was in that version also still a lot of fun, until I got the enhanced version, now I'm used to that^^ The most annoying thing when I tested an old version again, was actually the Firefox interface with a separate search bar ;)

Surname "Young"... Yet no DP... Curious....

Wait 98 is seen as "old"..... Cries in 95'

I’m 21, born in 01, my first OS was XP, and by the time I got into middle school most computers were struggling with the POS that was W8. I’m graduating with my Bachelor’s degree this spring. :)

My immediate thought was "that's not that old, my first windows was 3.11". My second thought was "Oh no."

@@KatzRool And in the video itself: Anthony *Young* ∞ Years old

is that the tall guy? does he have a yt channel?

@@RileyBanksWho No, Anthony is the guy who is old enough to have seriously used 98 back in the day.

@@IsmailofeRegime yeyeah thats who I meant

Brrrroooo Limewire!

I lost it at the exact same moment, had to wipe my screen afterwards.

Yeah, I remember when you had a certain number of hours each month you could be "on" the internet. You had to plan it out...

Man's working at LTT and doesn't know what Dial-up is.

i remember one time my mom simply accidently knocked out the cord out....boy I remember being so pissed that day.... 🤣

Everyone who used these systems professionally (in IT or IT adjacent roles) knew all this stuff about their system(s) of choice. You had to to use the system effectively. Many professional users and developers today are so isolated from the underlying system and only know their applications and the few system things they need to use those applications effectively :(. In the Windows 3.x, 95, and 98 days, knowing the hardware and OS to a ridiculous degree was pretty standard.

@@BrianBlock totally agree.

@@BrianBlock That wasn't just true for professionals. Every serious gamer knew every hidden $#!t of those OSes. Because they had to.

@@CakePrincessCelestia a bit like Linux is now

nerdalert

Didn't own a PC, but friends houses we'd play Worms, or Dark Forces, Carmageddon or Half Life. Honestly mostly what we did was find all the civilian characters and kill them while avoiding the enemies because 13 yr old boys don't change.

My friend and I did this too when we were 10 or so! Good times

This sounds like an awesome party game or drinking game actually

I did it with music

Holy crap, as soon as they mentioned recording audio I received a wash of nostalgia of doing this. Was great back in the day metaring what limited options we had in life.

Yeah, i think he is what we use to call "the computer guru". LoL!

@Okabe Rintaro Video games still have soul... There's plenty of indie games with a lot of heart. Just avoid shit from EA, Ubisoft and the like.

games are still good you're just too old to enjoy them like you used to like most of us.

@@Gatorade69 or play old ea and ubisoft games that did have a heart ..... right ?

@@Omar-fi9tl this I've tried to play and enjoy new games and I just can't. They're all so boring to me now. 28 years old, haven't enjoyed a game in 5+ years lol

And the manual would have solid 50 pages and you'll read it while you were waiting for the game to install. I remember in the case of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, if you were installing both GDI and NOD sides (assuming you had HDD large enough) on a standard CD-R drive, you could read both manuals, re-read what you did not understood and eat the pancakes your grandma made you, and then you could play. Such a good times when printing in manuals was 1000x better graphics and it gave you all the backstory and tips on how to position buildings, units and whatnot.

I’m glad to be past that, but it was amazing remembering to show my kid Sailor Moon Doom. Best version of Doom hands down.

Oh yeah. I still have the demo disks for The Lion King and Aladdin. Aladdin needed you to run mem maker to map that extended memory. Getting that to run on our old 486 was...interesting.

@Trucker Dave Yes, Sailor Moon Doom da bomb 🤣 I remember playing that with my online friend back in the day (now ex-husband). So nostalgic, was worried that others have forgotten about its existence.

yes BUT that is an issue which still plagues Linux to this day

@@mistress9sama You can still find playthroughs on RU-vid! You can still find the game too I think!

That start up sound brings back a lot of memories from the 90's, such a cool era to grow up in.

Yeah the Windows start up sounds from 95 to XP made the very act of turning on your computer sound like a glorious event. And, in a sense, it really did feel that way for a while.

watch?v=miZHa7ZC6Z0 paste this in yt search or after the / in the yt url this one gives me chills the most

@@IsmailofeRegime Yep same with the PS1 boot sound. It'd be awesome if they'd bring that back

That’s exactly how I felt when I had Windows 98. Like I literally could do anything and I have the world at my fingertips. It was an exciting time. Now it just looks so dated.

Yeah, I think I'm older than Anthony so I hear you on the age thing. Nonetheless, it's pretty fun to watch the next generation tinker with what I had to work with as a young adult.

I assumed that was a joke. I'm only just now realizing it likely wasn't. Shazbot.

And all this time I saved a one minute file then opened it back to get two minutes and so on to get enough time. 😅

When I showed someone that they can only write text in Paint when not zoomed in I was called a genius.

To make this faster you can use the insert function to double the length of the file.

You actually could, just set "Line out" in audiodevices as a source.

Was way easier to make few second recording and then just keep clickin the slow down in edit and save.

Yea. RU-vid randomly recommended me some videos about it and written media said that thing wasn't real back then altough it was.

I was a Linux consultant back in the day, my first client had an SGI system running Irix as well as a few linux systems.

Yeah You can tell they were really proud of their 3D capabilities so they made that fancy-ass 3D UI lol

I’m actually working with Irix 6.5.30 which will always be the Unix of choice (though HP-UX is a close second). All hail 4WDM

The file manager they used in the movie was called fsn, and somebody made a version for Linux called fsv It was indeed a Unix system

It's weird because that's how I felt when it came to revisiting retro games for a while. I recently bought a 4:3 CRT, and the memories came back...

@@curbacz16 Was gonna say this, I used to work at a retro arcade

@@curbacz16 I remember going back to GameCube games from my childhood and wondering why they looked so much worse than I remembered, then I played them on a CRT and it looked exactly how I remembered it being all those years ago. That is when I fell in love with CRTs again. I currently have one on my desk next to me RN.

Literally me when i decided to watch Power Rangers again 😂😂😂

This video inspection to download goosebumps

same i had a 386 sx33. i think it had similar using dos3.11

*40 to 10 which is really counter intuitive and confused a lot of people lol

@@TorutheRedFox Turbo off would be 10, turbo on would be 40, this is how it worked so it was very intuitive actually.

Yah and I am salty about that, I still used Briefcases and have zero interest in OneDrive or any other cloud based nonsense

I still used to setup homegroups until just a few years ago, I learned the process while trying to setup a lan party while playing Quake 2 with my bros. never gonna forget it and I hate OneDrive.

I miss Mesh.

Briefcases were dope.

clouds are useless for this, what if you are somewhere without internet