i want to go back
whats stopping you? plenty of old hardware around and most things are web based anyways
>>107910005I grew up upper middle class. Nobody could afford multiple towers and peripherals like that. Fake and gai
>>107910005These 2 cube computers are CUTE
>>107910005that's a modern cupnice try tho
>>107910022Crt havent been made in 15 years and are all failing
Kids collect phones instead of "retro" computers.
>>107910103I just recently bought a new old stock CRT, mint in box. Cost only 10€ too, granted it's just a 18" 85kHz SyncMaster with a Dynaflat tube.
>>107910005There's plenty of actual retro pc cases and crts being sold on ebay. You might also find some crt listings of Facebook marketplace, offerup, or craigslist in your area.I prefer that retro look, but with today's hardware. Lol
honestly it was terrible time.
>>107910200Terribly good.
>>107910005You may not like it, but this is what peak performance in 2004 looked like.
>>107910024Timestamp is fake, this is on point for dumpster diving poorfags circa 2010.
>>107910394Nowadays all that would cost several grand.
>>107910200Why?
>>107910022>plenty of old hardware aroundnoperedditors and trannies already grabbed all crts, keyboards and pc cases, zoomers already grabbed all ipods, classic consoles and anything vintage for le internet pointseverything is already gatekeeped
>>107910200>honestly it was terrible timeYep. Internet speeds sucked, computer performance sucked, everything was heavy and bulky and the internet was lackluster to say the least. Never met anyone who actually experienced it who "miss it".. It's always zoomers dreaming of some different reality that didn't exist. The fact that I can transfer 100+ extremely large photos from my camera to my pc, edit several and upload them today in less time than it took to get my old camera to even connect to my pc back then? Jesus.. And all the horrible fucking software for everything that always came on mini-cd and had some shitty UI that barely worked.. No, hell no. I'm so fucking glad all that is over.
>>107910005>2004I doubt it >>107910200I'd still go back. Pre-smartphone, pre-facebook, pre-pajeets on the web.
oh no
>>107910005Same
>>107910092stanley didn't invent those you insufferable faggot
>>107912385>but what about how much SLOP I can CONSOOM
>>107910024>everybody was brown and 7 just like I was
>>107910005>poorfag wants to go back and own le old shitty ewasteImagine being a baby duck faggot and not throwing away hardware older than 5 years old. If you own any device older than 5 years, you are automatically a luddite baby duck poorfag to me.
>>107910022>what's stopping you ?the learning curve. maybe I'm too deep in my own head but even booting up windows and organizing files was a hassle among unpleasant company.
>>107910005Then do it. I've got loads of old PCs like that. Don't have any Macs though.
>>107916284>you lived to see /g/ defend consooming
>>107910024Eh, I think it really depended on who you were. No one was specifically doing this but if I was a gen x'r in my late 20s early 30s with a nice office job I'd see myself having this type of shit.
>>107910092That's literally a generic free office plastic mug that was given out all the time. >>107912385Speeds sucked but also that was location based. Performance did not suck though. A nice 7200 rpm drive was fantastic at the time and the athlon ruled. Retroactively you could say it sucked but you're just comparing what is simplistic now that had time to it back then but back then was still the same comparison to the 90s so it didn't suck. like 4mb and 10mb basic cable internet was mind blowing compared to dial up and dsl. Playing WC3, BF2, Unreal 2k3, etc. was the bomb.com/awesome. Zoomers could never comprehend this time period.
>>107910005Correct
>>107910022my body insists on staying in the present
>>107916284>Proud of the fact he owns nothing but flimsy chinkshit that breaks itself if you hold it wrongIf you're only interested in owning toys, unironically buy Apple products. They'll at least last you for as long as their value advertises.
>>107910022i cant afford a bebox
>>107910022>most things are web based anywaysWith an endless cloudflare captcha loop for anything that's not a version of Chrome released within the past year
>>107918120Not true at all, fag. Mini discs were great, usually they just had drivers though. For a short time though cool shit was using them.
>>107918197>latest driver downloaded from manufacturer>2004Not usually man. You sound like a zoomer role-playing.
>>107918247Whatever you say zoom zoom
>>107918274Hm. Maybe I really am talking to the poor illiterate botted faggot who had a browser full of toolbars, downloaded britneyspearsporn.exe off limewire, and took 30 minutes to boot. Holy shit I finally met you!
>>107918312Damn, you really told me! Not. No one is going out to a machine in some random room and figuring out where to drag it to to get it online or whatever to install a driver that fucking came with the shit you're installing in 2004.
>>107910005Remember the fan noiseI do not want to go back
>>107910005Why the fuck does 2004 feel like it wasn't literally 22 years ago
>>107918341>figuring out where to drag it to to get it onlineNobody was doing this, zoomie. Everyone had the 100 ft ethernet cable for this situation.
>>107917561>>107917872>t. poorfags who cannot afford a real computer
>>107918483You're stuck thinking like a chode in his house and not as someone who actually was out and about fixing computers for work. There was literally no reason to not use included drivers on disc for almost all use cases unless there was a known bad driver in which case you probably carried a floppy/zip/usb/cd that had what you needed depending on the system.
>>107910005I don't but finding used machines from 1990's/2000's with a decent price (aka nothing) is a pain. That's a shame,you could give those computers a new life easily
>>107918515Whatever man yeah you served in Geek Squad during the Gulf War or whatever.
>>107917740Pull the bottom of your foreskin back a bit more
>>107918197>Right, so, straight to the bin and the latest driver downloaded from the manufacturerKid, that wasn't a thing with like 95% of stuff back then. Even IF they had a website, they rarely had any software on it at all..
>>107918215huh? I was still on dial up in 2004 but i still downloaded the latest drivers, they were quite small back then
>>107918622we're talking about 2004, not 1994
>>107918635Yes I know. And if you actually bought anything back then you would know that most stuff offered you the mini-cd and that was it. If you were lucky the drivers became available online later, but almost never on release. Cameras, printers, controllers and countless other things. You went on their web page and what did you get? A basic rundown on specs and a user manual.
>>107918608His urethra is stuck if he's splitting piss and it needs a stretch or massage. Foreskin pissing is like holding your thumb on a hose.
>>107910103CRT tubes last a long time so if you make sure to replace bad capacitors you can actually keep them in service for years.Even bad tubes can still be usable in a dark room (and I know every 4chan user has access to a dark room).https://youtu.be/9KLI2nRuT-w?si=E5FPOGP7CkxGi4qz&t=765>t. I don't even use CRT's anymore but they do just werk
>>107910005
>>107918625damn still? I was on dsl at least in like 2000/01 and most people were getting cable this was in some shit town in FL too.
>>107918625My point was that most people were satisfied with on disc drivers and shit worked so they didn't go beyond that. Unless a major change to a chipset or say a gpu driver was releasing your shit would most likely work and you'd never touch it again after the initial install.
>>107918778i was on dial up until 2006. yes, i used youtube on dial up (at least back then it let you buffer the whole video at once). this is in New Zealand. i knew one person with adsl (256k/64k) in 2004 (though i didn't know a whole lot of people)
>>107918968sure, most people didn't bother updating drivers. even now people wouldn't if it wasnt for windows updating them for them
>>107919029Exactly.
>>107919271it sounded like you were suggesting you couldn't rather than simply that people didn't
>>107918776https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIyxoCpJaN0
>>107920131>already know to pick up the phone before it rings
>>107910005Fucking why?
the reason why we miss it so much is that it was the last time white culture and white people dominated the mainstream of all thingsthe future looked clean and colorful, filled with hope, after y2k the jews in power decided to shift society to brown and black supremacy and it all got destroyed in less than a decade
>>107922370ok i'll bite, why is it so important that white people be featured prominently in advertising?Are you actually more racist than the people making the ads you're complaining about, maybe?
>>107910033Shuttle XPC's, they were genuinely nice boxes.just had a quick look to see if they were still in business. They appear to have abandoned the cube (boo) and busy knocking out shit that looks like 80s cd drives now.
>>107924828>why is it so important that white people be featured prominently in advertisingbecause white people reflect their own culture perfectly? 1990s japanese products like early Nintendo/Sony reflect the japanese boom in the 80s as a result of Americana and importing western (US and German) engineers+scientist to acquire their technology and become a superpower economywhy is it bad that i liked seeing white people on ads anyway? they're the majority of the population where these ads were released, you're the only one coming off as "racist" here, whatever that meanswhite people all made my favorite hardware, games, movies and comics growing up, am i supposed to completely ignore that and try to diminish their achievements?
>games>movies>comics>achievementsrofllf
>>107910005When my sister moved out I took her room and made min an office for myself, illuminated by the still yellow sunlight beaming down hope and optimism for the future
>>107925006
>pajeets immediately assblasted by reality
>>107925026?????????????
>>107910005lets go back together
>>107925419wtf is all that red and green speckles all over the place in the photo???
>>107925663It's another AI generated picture but with the wrong settings used. See screenshot for details on how diffusion works. >>107925419 Nice try. You got all your settings messed up. Damn though the text would have looked good but you blew your cover permanently.
>>107922370
>>107910200the internet was slow as shit and products and software just straight up not working was way more common, but in terms of soul today is not even close. the 2000s was where humanity's collective soul peaked
>>107925685>AI>all details remain perfectly consistent between both images with 0 weird artifacts
>>107926157it's not 2024 anymore. you seem to have missed the train, hm?
>>107926163those 2 pics have been getting posted since 2018 retard
>>107926169So the picture isn't from 2004. INTERESTING.
>>107920131SOVL
>>107910005On a positive note, I enjoy how lightweight everything is now. Certainly don't miss hauling my 60kg twat of a tv around.
When did it all go wrong? I don't even remember the iphone being that big a deal in 2007 other then some expensive thing for rich people. Then by 2012 smartphones were getting too big to ignore. I don't even remember discord being a thing until later 2010s when mentioned on here. I was so excited for windows 7 on release. I swear we should've all died with covid in 2020.
>>107919029One lesson I learned back then was to never update your realtek sound drivers. Its true to this very day
>>107910092Lol I can still taste the plastic of that cup 20 years after the fact. They made coffee taste gross.
>>107926497The world ended in 2012, fren. We're already in hell
>>107910024Bro 2004 was basically golden age America, everyone was making money and all sorts of components and electronics were getting cheaper.
>>107926497
>in the 90s your computer was in the family room because you all shared it and so you weren't online 24/7it was a better time>>107925419is that jim jefferies?
>>107928339>it was a better timeYes and no. One thing I hated about it was that my mom would know when I was using it from the glow of the CRT and stuff so I had to sneak around at night to use it and put blankets over her door. This stunted my growth with technology since I didn't have unlimited access.Of course, now kids have unlimited access but their growth is stunted in such worse ways it's insane because of the difference in hardware and software they use.
>>107910005no you don't
>>107928436the side effect of that is it kept you offline and you had more time outside with friends
>>107910103>all failingtons of arcade cabinets with them still work and I've seen antiquated monochrome green monitors still working in old manufacturing equipment and oscilloscopes
>>107928733Nah, I was already outside with friends all day. This was at night time as if you properly read "I was using it from the glow of the CRT and stuff so I had to sneak around at night to use it and put blankets over her door". I pretty much never had that issue with anything that was in my room like my N64 and stuff.
>>107910103A CRT can last up to 30000 hours with other parts failing most likely first. Basically, a CRT would have to be running 24/7 for almost 4 years straight to just burn out most likely.
>>107910024It depends on how shit each computer was. I had eight at that time, but only two were made in the 21st century - the oldest one was a 486 on the verge of motherboard self-destruction.
>>107910024around 2004-2008 it was accurate, those small form factor were notorious for burning out the shtty PSU, I used to work in a computer repair shopironically, comfy as fuck times, even got a few scoops/solaris systems but that is much more mid 00's then late 10's, by late 10's you'd have p4's *maybe* but most of the stuff there is not, the newest is maybe that silver Mac desktop. also greatest hit playstation game, the Logitech via cam (by late 10's everything had built in cams on laptop) the iPod would've be around since it'd be basic iPod video (if that) by late 00's because that was a big deal. the kvm switches also fell out of fashion with usb, ps/2 wouldn't be around late 10'. god damn take me back bro, I never knew it was the top. >>107910200not really, it was just the edge of the 10's man. >>107910382100%>>107912385Internet speed didn't suck, dialup was around but uncapping modems were common, roadrunner or comcast/coxial was common and 50mbps packages were shy of $20/month. AOL dialup was still free, netzero was around and you could get access easy. 3g evdo was unlimited, you could get a sprint package for 24mbps up/down which was crazy at the time. everything was heavy, yes. the process of transferring is the same, either connect via CF card or such (SD was not really around but existed.) or usb2 device for camera. >>107913193exactly meets ruin everything, you'd go on a site, fansub site, subscription list, everyone had an email from an university and those bonds were for life.
>>107927605None of that had any effect whatsoever in my online existence. Looks like zoomer larpists reimagining shit.
>>107910394from the way it's arranged with the webcam plugged in way on top of the shelf, 2 printers with paper ready to go yet only one wire coming down and a random PS1 game in the pile of CDs I'm inclined to believe these are all just props.
>>107925663>>107925685It's an old digital camera>>107928339It's Chris Rock
>>107910005Just install linux, it's like going back 30 years.
>>107917561seeing the responses to this is even more upsetting for some reason. Unfortunately this place is still kind of the best thing we have at the moment.
>>107926204take ur meds
