Essential software for Windows 95/98/ME/2000?Bonus points for non games
>>106528878>Office 97>Winamp>Real player (no)>Winzip>Norton GhostGood to go.
>>106528878is there any web app for encarta?
>>106528878what percentage of this board are bald childless 50+ years old nostalgia fags
>>106528891For me it's Panda antivirus>>106528878StarCraft and hexxen
DirectX 8
>>106528953there are no 50 year old boomers on 4chan
>>106528953im a hairy mid-30s father nostalgia-fag, thank you very much
>>106529199they are all on /pol/ or there are bots larping as them.
>>106528899I've studied this in great detail and have concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that the world became absolutely soulless sometime between 2001 and 2002. I have thousands of examples of this.
BrycePoser
>>106529199They've practically been the majority since /r/The_Donald closed.
>>106528878>ACDSee 3.1>Photoshop 7.0>Macromedia Dreamweaver>Macromedia Flash MX>Nero Burning ROM>CloneCD>Daemon Tools>Notepad++ 5.8 or 5.9 whichever runs>WinRAR 2.x>eMule>ICQ/AIM>ReGet or other download manager
>>106529251uncanny, isn't iti wonder what happened
>>106529380Jews
>>106529380yea i wonder what happened in 2001
>>106529380There are a lot of reasons that I have theorized for it. Cost cutting due to the stock market recession. Planned obsolescence. Push to make life seem boring in order to boost recruitment for the planned invasion of Iraq. Widespread adoption of internet connection required DRM. It does seem all connected when you really look in to it.
>>106529199im over fiddy and been here since 2008
>>106528878holy shit, it's Christmas 1997 all over again>>106529434>>106529534you're both right
>>106528953why does it always have to be nostalgiafagging or being a manchild? why cant people just simply be interested in early computing? this was a significant era of human history, there are plenty of reasons to engage with it. quit being such a contrarian little pissant and learn something with your pathetic little life
>>106529380>>106529251nothing happened, you just nostalgiafag because you weren't old enough to properly remember the bad aspects of the 90s and just remember your innocent childhood
i didnt have encarta but i had a lot of cds from the zane home library
I appreciate the 2D revival e.g. Silksong. Games should be 100 percent interactive and free of cutscenes
>>106529646No it's not just nostalgiafagging, I just studied the issue and came to that conclusion. 2002 is an anomaly there is nothing like it. Things started to improve by 2007 and by 2012 things were better. But between 2001 and 2002 there is a unmistakable shift where things went to complete shit in just a few short months.
>>106529234Reminds me of (I belive Corel's?) Home Design 3D and Landscape Design 3D (or Designer, don't remember).
If you were in your 30s during and after the dot com bubble you would have thought that entire period was soulless.
>>106529707Reddit-tier post.
>>106529623petulant manchild rage
>>106528878Fritz 6.
>>106528957Ghost was the re-imaging tool. Since Windows 98/XP would get very slow after running for a long time, users would re-image their CD to get back to the pristine state on a regular basis, usually with all their software installed. Of course this works best with your documents stored on another drive.
>>106529646this is boomer gaslighting at it's finest. you really want to sit here and say that oh no xyz.cum didnt make any money in 2000, thats actually just as bad as the 2025 global mass surveillance being deployed alongside the implementation of complete internet censorshipboomer at best, bad faith redditor at worst
>>106530028Anon didn't say all that though
>>106529623>he thinks late 90s is "early computing"
WordPerfect
>>106530193to someone born in the '00s it probably would seem like that
>>106529380What happened was the dot com bubble burst and everything because SERIOUS and FOR WORK. Computers stopped being fun, the Internet stopped being the "world wide web", and it all just became a mundane extension of reality.
>>106528878Bookshelf Basics
>>106528878All the Windows Entertainment Packs
>>106528878Netscape Navigator.
>>106528878
>>106528953I'm 47, not balding (but graying) and have very little nostalgia, because I know first-hand how shit hardware and software were back then.Unlike your average zoomer, whose only experience is playing with Windows 9x in a VM that has 20 years of "hardware" improvements that didn't exist back then, and when it inevitably crashes out anyway, all they lose is the tabs in MemeRetroBrowser v0.91.5-PATCH14-ALPHA-NIGHTLY.
if you're ESL
looking back on it, it's funny how the only software i can remember standing out was games while the computer was definitely sold as a 'productivity machine'
Word 97 for me.
>>106530452Tech hasn't shifted that dramatically since 2000, so it's not as much as a pronounced shift, compared to asking a 25 year old in 2000 about the tech in 1975. Things really took of in the 80s and 90s and warp speed.
>>106531163*at warpFor example, in those 25 years you went from Pong graphics to Quake 3. Of course tech has continuously improved since 2000, but it seems more incremental. The smart phone is the major event, but in some ways that's a regression or a side step, as the phone hardware and capabilities have always lagged behind the PC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCrtFqDMt0c
