>the year is 2004
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>>1077656542004 was Alienware territory for me.
>2 more hours for the download to end>then I can finally listen to this 3min song on winamp
>>107765956dial-up still in 2004?
erm, where is teh froo-tee-gor ayyro?
>>107765654Got XP SP3 installed. Posting from it right now, not even that slow. Just bored, nothing special about the laptop, does have floppy, DVD, WiFi, USB, prallel port and serial, so it makes for a nice bridge / media creation machine for even older or nicher hardware and machines.
>>107765654C L U N K Y
>>107765965my village had no DSL until 2019only options until then were dial up or LTE.
>>107766357Thats horrible.
>>107766501LTE was serviceable enough for youtube videos on 240pbut online gaming all sucked outside of WoW (which is very latency tolerant)
>>107766655LTE is still fine for YouTube. My backup connection is LTE and only 2MB/s up/down.
>>107766357you're Indian aren't you?
>>107766328>>107766317>>107765654C o m f y poster, thank you. I'm 20 thousand miles from home again and this gave me some semblance of the genuine human connection my soul cherishes. Thank you.>>107765679Also hey Beaver, hope you're doing well.t. guy from the gimp thread nearly one year ago (January 11-14th)
What year could tech have stopped advancing, and you wouldn't been wholly content?If everything froze in 2007, that would've been enough for me.>core 2 duo>avoid post 2020>tech is simpler and still unique>world has mystery without widespread internet
>>107768699Why core2duo? Because the ME can be removed?
Hold on let me pause Postal 2 and watch some BME Pain OlympicsAlso how did I just end up on some Filipino-ran porn site in google first results that's about impaling and cooking women?Have you heard of EFUKT?Anyway, that's what the uh neocities retro web yesterweb frutiger aero movement is all about right?
>>107769097I'm not really a hardware techie, but I heard IME was landed in 2008, yes.Also, just seems like 2 cores would be a nice base for a constant ecosystem to grow on, rather than only single core.In my hypothetical, I assume new software can be created by FOSS.
>>107765654Just look at this old ass shim for installer running MS-DOS. Back then Microsoft was concerned about heir system to be installable on as many computers as possible. Now they impose completely arbitrary TPM2 and MS account requirement.
>>107765654>downloading anime series in rmvb hardsubs>fileshare 50/kbs cap with wait times between downloads>these shit encodings with glitching in real player>the alternative is buffering episodes for 20 minutes before watching
>>107769326>real playerPeople actually used that garbage?
>>107769660not him, but yes, people did use real player. back then there were more competing proprietary formats than now. these days everything uses ffmpeg so there's no longer dedicated players for specific formats, but back then if you wanted to play realvideo-format videos like .rmvb files, you use real player, and it was a pretty common format.
>>107765654Had to use a fucking floppy disk to load the HDD SATA driver because that's the only thing the Windows XP installer supported.
>>107769753>there were more competing proprietary formatsI know, I remember. But Real Player format was dogshit, I avoided it like the plague.
>>107765654for poorfags on /g/ it's 2026 also
>>107769813well for many of we got what we could get. i remember a period where i had the option of decent quality 174MiB vga xvid dvd rips of anime, or 35MiB qvga rmvb rips. obviously the former look much better, even on dial up even 35MiB took some time to download, so i downloaded the rmvb's for most shows
>>107769771idk what you expected, sata is brand new!
>>107769944I guess that makes sense. I was downloading rips of games back in the dialup days. Not many sites had the entire isos for DL, so you basically had to download everything separately.>music addon>speech addon>cinematics addonIt would take an entire Saturday afternoon just to get the base gamerip without any of the media parts.
>>107769964yea, i remember game rips as well. i kinda wish that was still a thing, since games even today have the bulk of their size in media and unnecessarily-high-res textures. really with things like steam there's no technical reason why this can't just be an official option, like a choice between low/high res video assets, other languages, and whether you want to download the "ultra" quality textures etc, since we all know only a small number of players actually use those. but they still treat things like everyone has infinite bandwidth and storage space. maybe i do today, but a lot of people don't.
>>107769964>>107770005as a side note, i am aware that unnecessarily-large games was actually an intentional choice, both for performance and piracy reasons. like some of the smarter playstation 1/2 devs realised that optical media can be read faster near the "end" of the disc (they're read inside-out), so to improve performance they would add a padding file near the start of the disc, pushing the actual game to the outermost parts of the disc. this also doubled as a piracy measure, as larger game disc images were more costly to host and download, cd's and dvd's were very large back then, even if you were on 256k adsl a full-blown 4GiB ps2 game dvd image was really big file. actually one of the reasons i moved to xp finally in 2004 was because i wanted to use ntfs as i had picked up a dvd burner (as you know, previous versions of consumer windows didn't support files over 4GiB, which is an issue for dvd mastering, as even single-layer dvd's were up to 4.38GiB)games like GTA: Vice City for example had special measures added to them to try to combat game rips, like it actually checked if its' padding files were present
>>107769957Still dumb you couldn't load the driver from a flash drive or second CD. That installer was ass, even for the time.
>>107770088I still run into USB flash drives and the odd SD card formatted fat32 and it absolutely infuriates me.
>>107770138yea, i can't disagree. usb mass storage support was added in me, so there's no reason xp's installer couldn't do itas for another cd, now that you say it... why wasn't that a thing? weren't most motherboard drive discs cd's in 2001? i'm not sure, i was pretty young then
>>107770257Yes, they were. But those drivers were installed from the cd after the OS was first installed.
>>107770285wait i'm too drunk for this, the context was sata/ahci drivers, that wasn't a thing until 2004 (2003?).though; third party storage drivers for things like scsi controllers was a thing, so it still doesn't seem reasonable that it couldn't use a cd for loading "F6" drivers.
>>107770319My first motherboard with sata ports was around 2003 yes. Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe. Didn't actually use the sata ports until a few years later for some backup storage addon drives. Still have the board too, but sadly it no longer POSTs.
>>107765654>normies literally thot apples big touchpads were copyrighted and they were afraid to give their trash a big touchpad for years and years
>>107765654lol, don't bring me back for this
>>107769298There's still a graphical installer though.Actually little has changed in the way Windows installs itself, doesn't use DOS anymore though.
>>107769771>>107770138The original XP installer is from 2001, nobody thought about USB sticks back then, they were expensive and floppies were still very common.
>>107770138>>107770257You could sideload the drivers into the disc image and then burn it.
>>107770088>as larger game disc images were more costly to host and downloadThat's why we trimmed ISOs for game discs. Also most of the time the data wasn't very compressed, so it was also very compressible.
