Feeling really old

[malachi]

remember Time computers? their website is still active! http://www.timeuk.com/

I also remember the advert ".......Time Machine" Done by theperson who was in Star Trek (cant remember who)

Those were the days....dial up....massive mobile phones, Mercury One 2 One, Nintendo showing Mario 64 for first time, the big boy such such as ATI and 3DFX fighting it out.....then word got around about a new player on the scene...Nvidia with their TNT GFX card.

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

Still not sure if I buy this WiFi thing.

WiFi is not magic, it needs a physical connection somewhere and surely they get taught some of this stuff at school or know what to do if the internet "breaks" at home?

You'd be surprised, computers and all their accoutrements are pretty much magic boxes to a lot of people. I've often had people, intelligent people, ask me to connect them to the network so that they could print. They didn't get that while the devices were connecting via different mediums, it was all on the same network.

All they saw was that the printer was wired to the network so assumed they had to be physically connected to the network also for them to be able to print.

 

[Rifte]

I also remember the advert ".......Time Machine" Done by theperson who was in Star Trek (cant remember who)

Those were the days....dial up....massive mobile phones, Mercury One 2 One, Nintendo showing Mario 64 for first time, the big boy such such as ATI and 3DFX fighting it out.....then word got around about a new player on the scene...Nvidia with their TNT GFX card.

 

[Zatoichi.uK]

Ha 40 here and my first PC was Windows 98, though I did use some 3.1 and 95 PCs around the Doom era.

My first "Experience" of the Internet that I remember was on a Windows 95 PC at the local library, trying to get a FAQ for Killer Instinct from Gamefaqs. It was running Netscape though and was so slow it took about 10 minutes to load a single page. I gave up in the end.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

aaah 1995

drum n bass was great, 4 star on the forecourts, buy a pack of cigs without a dead body on the front, john major knocking the back out of edwina, people talked instead of social media

grrrrrr great days

Amen.

The one thing that did annoy me was the Blur vs Oasis hype, but otherwise, 1995 was my favourite year of all time.

 

[Zatoichi.uK]

I know there are some drum and bass haters here but hey, here's a big one from 1995.

Samples from Blade Runner and to me, still sounds like it's from the future.

 

[Sliver]

^ That is just noise pollution lol. Amazes me what passes for music in some peoples minds.

 

[Zatoichi.uK]

^ That is just noise pollution lol. Amazes me what passes for music in some peoples minds.

Different strokes for different folks. It's just as amazing to me that people can't see the skill that goes into making something like that. I miss bass too, real bass.

 

[Sandycheeks]

I'm 38 and realised a little while ago that when I first met my wife, her mum was younger than I am now.
Scary really as she seemed old(ish) at the time.

 

[gothic_hobbit]

Pure dorks in that vid, the Amiga was a far better computer than the trash of pc's back then.

This.

If only Commodore hadn't ballsed things up.

 

[SonniLombardi]

lol. it wasn't pron it was Napster. I'd spend hours every day file sharing and creating CD's from it. My sister though had a billion friends who called our house all the time so it was really annoying.

Haha yeah Napster was the nuts! I remember installing it at school and telling people about it and everyone was downloading songs, then it got banned by the teachers and they uninstalled it all

Anyone remember Blueyonder ISP, and the Motorola Surfboard modems? you could edit the docsis file and uncap teh modems to 2mbit when the highest at the time was 512k. I done it to mine and was running it for a month before I got a "warning" letter from Blueyonder, it was amazing at the time as 2mbit was gloriously fast lol.

 

[DarrenM343]

Must have been made a few years ago that vid - Leo looks quite young.

 

[Zatoichi.uK]

Ha blimey this is still up. Back when I could be bothered to change my WinXP theme.

http://www.themexp.org/

 

[beachBOYken]

I was hoping they'd have to dial up to connect to the internet just so I can hear that beautiful dialing tone again

Miss them days in a strange way. Downloading a music album after 3 hours or so felt like a massive achievement.

 

[malachi]

Miss them days in a strange way. Downloading a music album after 3 hours or so felt like a massive achievement.

Then paying £20 for a pack of 10 blank CD's, using your £160 4 speed CD writer to burn the album. Sit there for 20mins......99%......burning failed....buffer underrun!

 

[Skiddley]

Ahh, the joys I had re-configuring my autoexec.bat to get enough memory to run a game.

Who needs that mouse driver!

 

[Sliver]

Then paying £20 for a pack of 10 blank CD's, using your £160 4 speed CD writer to burn the album. Sit there for 20mins......99%......burning failed....buffer underrun!

I had the stickers for my CDs too. I could set my text with the software, print out the sticker and slap it on my newly pirated CD. Still got some of those CDs today.

 

[linktoinsanity]

Bah, Windows 95 was what our second computer ran, a DELL Pentium 200Mhz MMX with 32MB RAM, originally and a 4.3GB Hard drive.

We still have it, runs Windows 98SE now, 64MB RAM and a 16GB HDD.

Our first PC was an Evesham Vale 486sx25 with 4MB RAM, 102MB HDD, DOS6 & Windows 3.1, which I temporarily broke when I accidentally deleted the autoexec.bat file. Dam you DOSSHELL for deleting extra files from what I asked you to!

I feel old.

 

[[TW]Sponge]

My first OS was Windows ME in an Acer Aspire desktop. Such a horrible, horrible experience. But I remember getting onto the internet and seeing the google page for the first time and it was one of the best moments of my younger days. #sad

Also Limewire which would kill my PC in around 3 minutes.

 

[MikeTheNative]

My first was Windows Xp but i do remember my Granddad having 98.