Feeling really old

Freefaller said:
I remember having to install it with floppy discs!

I still remember windows 3.11 :D

Heck I remember having to tweak autoexec.bat and config.sys to make games/programmes work! Ahhhh memories.
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That moment when you thought you'd got it then it spat you out of the game back to the DOS prompt needing another 1KB of conventional memory and you've already loaded everything you can think of into high mem.
 
The part that had me calling shenanigans was when they started talking about wifi. Fair enough wifi comes with pretty much every isp now but you can still connect a lot of stuff with a direct physical connection (and it usually works better).

They also seem ignorant of what a modem is (despite these still being used to connect to the Internet) and don't seem to realise that Internet through a phone line is still a major thing, although this may just because yanks use more cable connections.
 
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
 
As I said earlier, my first PC was an Escom. I think they was the first and only dedicated PC retailers to have shops on the high street. They didn't last long. Well, when you open a shop in Woolwich in the mid 90's with most items costing over a grand, you're not going to are you?
 
Wasn't the only dedicated PC retailer, not that any of them lasted long but we had 3-4 different brand stores including Time.
 
Just watched a video with Neil DeGrasse Tyson interviewing Marques Brownlee (Tech Reviewer) who is 22 and had no experience of having to actually put film in a camera and get it developed....made me feel old and I'm in my early thirties!
 
My second computer was a Packard Bell Multimedia GLE which ran Windows 95. :)

That bad boy had a 200MHz Pentium 16MB of RAM and a 2GB HDD.

I used to love SWIV 3D, Professor Tims, Bang Bang, Oils Well (bit older than the PC that one...), Garden Designer, and Encarta... Yes, I actually browsed, and enjoyed, Encarta! I even connected via dial up and tried to browse the internet a bit... I still remember trying to play a DVD on it and being confused as to why it wouldn't work... Of course I now know that the DVD format - while it existed - wasn't adopted until after the PC was made... :D

My first computer had a 286 and ran DOS, but I couldn't really use it much...

The confusing part is that I'm 20... :p
 
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