the actual 2000's vs what zoomers thinks of the 2000's
>you couldn't change your wallpaper or install music players in the 2000s because.... you just couldnt, okay? i was there you know
>>108326327The music player is accurate. If anything that blob is tame and usable compared to some of the skins I remember people using in the late '90s early '00s.
>>108326327You forgot WMP or Winamp or Sonique with visualizer in the XP screenshot
>>108326327nobody used the fisherprice xp theme except grannies and drooling retards
>>108326327I'm a zoomer and I literally experienced all 3 of these.
a bonus
>>108326390are you a early zoomer (1997-1999)?
>>108326327Best ratio 4:3 vs retarded nonsensical widescreen. Indeed.
>>108326400Right is just what Macs looked like in the '00s.
>>108326327>NOBODY HAD AN IPOD IN 2004, EVERYONE IN MY TRAILER PARK HAD PICREL
best os-tan
>>108326327>muh default desktop stylelook into actual physical products of the time. they were in fact very often bubbly and glossy/shiny in their design
>another culture war thread made by a kikele sigh...
>>108326327>No BonziBuddyImmediate fail. Leave and never come back.
>>108326327Both are correct. Didn't you use vista?
And this was before silicone headphones were popular, so you'd have to jam a hard piece of plastic into your ear to hear a shitty version of Semi Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind you recorded by holding the microphone up to the radio. That's what made my generation tough. Everyone born after 1997 is a worthless piece of shit.
>>108326543Everybody I knew used cheap on-ears from radio shack (similar to these), the free pack-in earbuds were for true poorfags only.
>>108326543>you'd have to jam a hard piece of plastic into your ear to hearyou could get earbuds with a thin foam padding, or get such generic padding online and apply to your earbudsnot only it fixes comfort (no more hard plastic directly in contact with ear), it also somewhat improves the sound by adding a tiny bit of color to it>by holding the microphone up to the radiomost of those USB MP3 players had an FM receiver with the ability to record
>>108326400Well yes these are different things, I doubt anyone claimed otherwise (although >>108326434 is not wrong either). But if you want an aesthetic at all, "an optimistic, outdated vision of the future" is a better pick than "old shit that sucks to use but looks nostalgic".
>>108326382Royale and Zune were good, but Luna was dogshit
>>108326327my parents bought a vista ready computer in '06 but reverted back to XP after they did have a 16:9 flatscreen monitor though (it was only 1600x900).
>>108326566I still use these today.... Bought like 10 of them awhile ago and replace as needed. Very comfy
>>108326350wimamp was a thing in the 90s>>108326350>>you couldn't change your wallpaper or install music playerswut?
>>108326543I still use the earbuds than come with my sonly walkman back in the 90's
>>108326490but it was still common to see a technology from the 80's and 90's in the 2000's, plus here in brazil black and white tvs were still very common until the 90's and we still had sound devices from the 80's being used in the 2000's.
>>108326327stop larping zoomie
>>108327141this is from the 2010's actually, not the 2000's, plus people still used windows xp in the early 2010's.
>>108326434the imac you think is the 2010 design, not something from the 2000's.
>>108327141>2013>in a thread about desktops in the 2000'sretard
>>108326400I want to go back to left pic but I'm a contract worker that has to move every couple years an moving the CRT just feels like a hassle. Any anons that have one think it's worth it?
>>108326327You're not making any kind of point with your stupid fucking picture.
Here's the one from that one nick at nite show starring George Lopez
>>108327244is that people still used windows 98 in the 2000's, windows 7 was released in 2009, at the time, people still used windows xp until the early to mid 2010's.
>>108327367and people hated windows vista back then, which is odd now seeing zoomers praising windows vista due to their glossy aero design and ignoring the problems the vista had.
>>108327361what’s about the legendary imac g3?
>>108327367the "zoomer" screenshot has Windows Vista which was released in 2007ironically, only zoomers do not acknowledge Vista even existing because they have, at best, only second hand knowledge from memes and old screenshots>>108327381>people hated windows vista back thennot for its looks>which is odd now seeing zoomers praising windows vista due to their glossy aero design and ignoring the problems the vista hadthey typically praise only the looks, not the whole systemagain, they have no first hand experience with it to even know what problems it had
>>108326327LMAO
>>108327367Neither of those screenshots is of Windows 98.
>>108326400I had that exact fish tank thing in the frutiger aero setup pic as a kid in the early 2010s
I think Web 2.0 Gloss is the better term than fruitnigger aero.
>>108327444I used a screenshot from windows 2000, but it still counts.
>>108327459No, Windows NT 5.0 does not count as Windows 98 in any way, shape or form.
>>108327381>people hated windows vista backI never met anyone that felt that way despite the sentiment being parroted around.This was so overblown at the time that Microsoft released that Mojave ad or whatever it was.I don't even know where that myth stems from. Vista was a great leap ahead for the OS in regards to how it handled drivers and obviously issues most of the V1s for any new system APIs.The OS did not have any real issues as far as I remember, it was driver vendors having unstable drivers during the initial wave.Windows 7 is highly regarded and it's just the last iteration of Vista's base. The difference was less the OS and more just that people had learned the new APIs by then and software updates for drivers etc had already been propagated. But that's more an issue with third parties.
>>108327428>the "zoomer" screenshot has Windows Vista which was released in 2007>ironically, only zoomers do not acknowledge Vista even existing because they have, at best, only second hand knowledge from memes and old screenshotsthe windows vista one is a theme, not the actual windows vista.>they typically praise only the looks, not the whole system>again, they have no first hand experience with it to even know what problems it hadit’s still odd, but people didn’t care about the design at all, but i like when some of them were inspired by the optimism of the post war era, plus the futuristic designs reminds me of the advertising and concepts from that period.
>>108327361
This was my actual 2000sThe next PC my family was Windows 7
>>108327147Late Millennial, Early Gen Z here. Some call us Zillennials.Some of us never had the privilege of using XP and were stuck on 2000 until Vista.Vista was such a disaster than everyone jumped to 7 right away when it came out in 2009, and rumors of "Win7 2007" were commonplace. Everyone was praying for 7 and it emerged as our savior from Vista, hence the nostalgia.
>>108327467I am not saying 98 counts as windows nt 5.0, i was just saying that windows 98 still counts since it was still common in the early 2000's, windows me was less common and received the same hate as windows vista and recently windows 11, that’s why people picked windows 2000 or waited until windows xp due to windows me compatibly problems and how it give bsod everytime.
>>108327532>Vista was such a disaster than everyone jumped to 7 right awayThat would explain why I never saw Vista as a zoomer. By the time I got on computers it was mostly windows 7 with windows XP on some older computers.
>>108327191I was thinking of pic related, which I had in 2005 IIRC. Also I had that exact keyboard in that pic in 2009 (it was a piece of crap, worst keyboard I've ever owned barring the ZX81).
>>108327558>>108327532As an extremely early zoomer I saw Vista plenty of times but it was always people who could buy a new computer every few years.Institutionally I never saw Vista, was either XP, 7 or even Windows 98 . Saw this sticker at school or the library alot
>>108327624I think it may have been location dependent.In my area, most Boomer parents stuck to 2000, which led to the schools being on 2000.>people who could buy a new computer every few yearsIn my area, this described the XP people. Since everyone was on 2000 and needed to upgrade, so they "upgraded" to Vista.Vista was so bad, any location dependence ended up gone by Windows 7.
PCs were primitive, rough, and mean in the 90s, and only neckbeards could put up with them. Nothing was really user friendly back then.
>>1083263272000 and 2009 both take place in the 2000s
>>108326327Its almost like a lot changed in a decade. Vista came out in 2006 for the record.
>>108326477I rocked something like this all they way up to like 2014 or something dumb like that. By then Smartphones had established themselves well, I had a sansa clip+ as well later, loved that lil bastard.
>>108327396Had these in elementary school in the 90s so it doesn't count. Also they were shit I'd have teachers mad at me cause they would constantly freeze during long word-processing sessions. I told them to save often. I bet these things burned thousands of man years on lesson drafts.
>>108327733>shit eye rape CRTs>shit floppy disks>shit roller ball mice that get dirty and have to be taken apart and cleaned>CLIs>ports are not hot pluggable nor standardized since there are different types for different peripherals and you have to turn the power off to plug or unplug anything>janky Windoze that crashes constantly>setting up hardware is often very complicated>PCs are obsoleted every six months so you are buying a new machine or upgrading components regularlyzoomers would suicide themselves if they had to put up with what people put up with back then
>>108327781The 90s was an unfortunate interlude where hardware had grown past 80s primitivity but had not reached 21st century ease of use.
>>108327781It may be fun to play the games on DOSBox but the actual hardware was not fun. You would often have to jump through burning tires to get a game to work at all.
>>108327769you are thinking of the molar mac not the imac
>>108327837nah, we were definitely using imacs in the 90s. I remember it vividly.
>>108326400the left one is pure SOVLbros ... how do we go back :(
>>108326400Kek, I had that fishtank. My room was like a weird combination of both those rooms and their stuff.
The term frutiger aero didn't exist during the time when what it's being used to describe existed. Anyone who uses it exposes themselves as a zoomer faggot with crabs in a bucket mentality that wants to make you updoot to windows 10/11 so your computing experience can be just as shitty as the one they have known their whole lives.
>>108327837They sold the molar mac for all of four months before dropping it, it was an extremely rare sight in schools compared to the iMac even in 98/99.
>>108326327>zoomers will never know
I saw some real dumbass tweet that some zoomzoom made of a "2009 website" shit has some massive 3d anime girl in it those retard skeuomorphic bubbles all over it and every single icon was animated or floating. These fucking zoomers are retarded I swear they think anime was popular in the west with everyone all the time and wasn't some loser shit.
>>108327938Aero was a term back then but I don't know where frutiger came from or why.
>>108327955it was invented a few years ago to shitpost
>>108327781I still remember having to reinstall Windows XP like every year.And blasting the computer with big fan just to play Serious Sam.
>>108328043Literally how, I looked after 700 XP desktops and they just worked running all manner of shit until replaced by Win 7 machines (which the users were very upset at) about 2 years after Win 7 released. Did you install new malware daily?
>>108326327>op discovers the 2000s lasted for ten years and had more than one windows version
soul
>>108327953Anime was mainstream in 2009, what broke trailer trash school did you go to?
>>108327042nothing stopped you from using winamp instead of foobar in 2000s as well
>>108326327trying too hard, zoomer
>>108326400FUGGG man I wish I had a pic of my setup from back in the days.>Absolute garbage old laptop, can't even remember what it was but it was shit and dated even for the time>Half of the keyboard had been ripped off >Monitor was cracked and broken and didn't display>So I had this literal piece of garbage laptop hooked up to an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor>Shitty old logitech speakers that were so bad my permanently unemployed lifetime alcoholic brother gave them to me for free since he'd got better ones>Old PS2 controller going through a $3 Chinese USB adapter >All crammed onto a tiny little table which barely fit everything on itThis was like 2009-2012ish. Damn those were some days. Miserable depressed days, but you remember how you found solace in the little things. I got chat GPT to make it based on that description and this was surprisingly accurate, except that the monitor looks goofy as hell and I think my table was actually smaller than that.
>>108326327The music player would be closer to the early 00s. By late 00s people were moving over to itunes or foobar.And nobody used windows 2000 except dumbass hipsters.
>>108326327>no custom Quake desktop themeThey're all fake.
>>108326327>PicrelHuh? Nigga that's absolutely not, what I think. I'm an early zoomer and I used XP.>XP Pinball, Heart of Darkness, Gothic 1&2, GTA Vice City.>GameCube Super Smash Bros. GBA Pokemon.>Ps2 Tony Hawk, DmC, GTA SA, Kingdom Hearts.And many more... I jumped from WinXP to Win7, this is when I learned more about PCs and how to install an OS ...
>>108327396My first pc from daddy's office when they replaced it with new ones, I still have 2 of these in a closet back home
>>108326382literally everyone did because nobody bothers to change defaults
>>108326382>>108329521this, but I had such a weak PC in the Win7 era, that I swtiched to the 98 theme
>>1083263272000s to Early 2010s.
>>108326327fruitnigger zoomers going on about 2000s aesthetics are annoying, but the widgets and desktop apps were 100% real.Always get a chuckle out of that stuff, and how we were all trying to rice out and customize windows in the mid/late 2000s. Like what the fuck was the actual purpose of bolting on some dock widget that just takes up extra screen space and does the exact same thing as pinned icons on the taskbar? Why did we put rainmeter clock apps on the desktop when the bottom corner already shows the time? Good times.
you weren't cool enough for Sonique
>>108326327Windows looked like right from 2006 onwards
real 2000s setups were messy and filthy, the desktops were shitly riced and full of useless iconsmany ppl were using xp, vista and 7 during that erazoomerniggers will never understand
>>108327042>wut?OP is comparing pics of base install windows with nothing changed and windows with a different wallpaper and a music player installed and acting that never could have happened ever
>>108327854You can buy all that garbage now and have the gayest set up of all time if you want. Nothing is stopping you.
>>108329952>Good times.
>>108326400Frutiger aero is more windows 7(2009)/PS3(2007)/Wii(2006) aesthetics rather than this Windows XP(2001) setup.
>>108330256windows 7 was released in 2009.
>>108328466>Anime was always a pedo spaceLol no. This anime = pedo/troon is zoomer bullshit that came with modern social media. Back in middle and high school I had many friends who were watching anime. Things like Death Note, Naruto, Evangelion, Haruhi, Code Geass were popular.
>>108327938Nearly all names for design styles didn't exist back when they were introduced. That's why we call them "contemporary" until they are old and established enough to define then.
I want to go back
this tweet comes from a troon btw
>This thread was made by someone who didn't own a computer in the 2000s
>>108331235>this message was made by someone who were too young in the 2000s
It wasn't really any different than now.
>>108329521>nobody bothers to change defaultsHe already mentioned drooling retards
>>108331278I think YOU might've been a bit too young, actually. You're arguing about the most useless shit possible regarding a configurable OS like windows XP. Your arguments throughout the entire thread are about visual, UI, and aesthetics, something you could change very easily even being a beginner. I mean, my XP looked completely different from the default and I was 9.If you're the brazillian in this thread, you might've just been poor, but if you're seriously arguing about what "zoomers" think computing in the 2000s was and you actually believe your arguments here, you're probably just a self hating zoomer lmao.
The funniest bit is, Vista was a perfectly fine OS. I used it for years. Every "issue" with it wasn't even real.
>>108331329did you forget that millennials exists?
>>108331348my mom uses windows 11, and she found no issues on it.
>>108331356I actually accounted for that>you might've just been poor
>>108326487better os-tan
>>108331400ok shartyfag
>>108331234>4chan post seething about trannies on twitter seething about tiktokFuck off.
>>108327133Poorer families usually hold onto older technology longer. I'm from Mexico, and I remember I once went to my maid's house, where she had a really old CRT TV from the 1980s. I remember my maternal grandparents still had a computer with a CRT monitor and a CRT TV well into the 2010s, but only in my mom's old bedroom.Then again, I remember getting a Macbook Air back when I was in 3rd grade, so roughly in 2008, and I remember we had a plasma TV at home back when they were trendy and fashionable, roughly around 2006-ish, I believe.Mexico has a huge wealth distribution gap between upper-middle class and lower-middle class people, just like Brazil, so going to slightly less affluent neighborhoods has always felt like stepping a decade or two in the past. I went to private schools all the way to high school, so I got kind of shocked how backwards and outdated-looking the installations were at my state's public university.
>>108327507>>108327532As an early Zoomer (born in 1998), I don't remember Windows ME/2000 at all. I know my dad used Windows 95/98 in his office back when I was a kid, but the first home computer I used, roughly around 2005 I believe, had Windows XP, and all the computers I came across at school from around 2006 till 2012 all had Windows XP too.Then again, I only used Macs and other Apple devices (iPads, iPhones) from 2008 till around 2017, so that meant I never got to use Windows Vista, 7, or 8, and decided to do the switch from Mac OS X Mavericks to Windows 10.
>>108328458XP was the first consumer Windoze that actually just worked most of the time and didn't crash routinely.
>>108326400
>>108326400That's literally just a children's hospital or lobby aquarium desk on the right. Not really anachronistic.
>>108331815
>>108331821
>>108331830
>>108331815it's mostly the wow things personally that bring me nostalgia.People were funnier back then.
>>108326400I actually like right, hope zoomers start doing a neo-fruitnigger thing.
>>108331840
>>108331849>world of warcraft thingsthis was a peak setup back then. i would have killed to have this when i was in high school back then
>>108331850closes thing i had to "fruitnigger" style back then was having a similar glass desk to this one
>>108331862
>>108331470>4chan post seething about 4 chan post seething about trannies on twitter seething about tiktokLol.Lmao, even.
>>108331840this setup looks great! But computers are getting expensive af nowadays.
>>108331879Beaut
>>108331781Nobody used Windows meme edition willingly. Pretty much everybody just downgraded to 98SE or sidegraded to 2000.
>>108331694When I was still in high school ~2005 I had a super old CRT TV, I mean REALLY fuckin old like from the 70s. It didn't display properly, it had like a hall-of-mirrors effect where everything up the top was all stretched out, then closer to the middle everything was really compressed, then the bottom half of the screen displayed pretty normally. I never had my own personal computer or console, but I would get to borrow old consoles from my friends sometimes (PS1 and N64) and those were my favourite times. I'm not a thirdie by the way I'm from a poor family in a developed country.That kind of shit means so much to you at that time. I downloaded a bunch of emulators recently and was looking through this list of thousands of games I could get totally free, and it all seemed like such a waste of time. How did I enjoy it so much? If I'd known then that in the future I'd be able to dowload the entire catalog of PS1 and PS2 games I would have freaked, but now I can't be bothered to even look at them.
love how every single setup in this thread is so unique sovlfvl, nothing to do with zoomer battlestations literally they all look the same
>>108329977I used it for a while but Winamp was just superior
>>108331840Ubuntu in ~ 2007based
>>1083263272007 counts as 2000's though
>>108326413Nope I was born in 2007 I just emulated it, unc
>>108326400To be fair the aesthetic they are after did exist back then.It's just that it was pretty rare meeting anyone who had these kinds of harmonious setups.But you would have absolutely been able to put one together no problems.
>>108331296he also mentioned grandmas, what's your point?
>>108326327silver theme xp, winamp custom obsidian skin to match steam, stalker desktop background, matrix screensaver (red font), probably still using xfire too, maybe msn messenger
>>108333433Back when Apple had SOVL.
>>108333433
>>108333580what
>>108327953Anime was literally the standard average cartoon showed in european countries after school and during the afternoons, MTV everyone also watched MTV in the evenings which showed more "mature" anime like GTO, inuyasha, FMA and more, first of the north star, robotech, tigerman and more was also shown in the early evening on other channels.
>>108331815>clerks inaction figure in boxmega BASED
>>108331830Managing to have your PC hooked up to your TV was pretty cool back then to be fair, it wasn't as easy as just hooking up a HDMI cable.
>>108332999Back in those days you could read gay erotica from the 1970s on shitty-ass paperbacks sold at used books stores, and nowadays you can still find those same shitty old gay erotica paperbacks. IPSVM QVOD FACIENDVM EST DIVTIVS (Ecclesiastes 1:9; idiomatically: "Nothing ever happens").>>108333763I remember we had shit like Inuyasha and Naruto on TV, but you also had actual pornographic anime you could get online.There also used to be a lot more lolicon anime and manga back in those days, as opposed to the half-assed JCs/JKs-rebranded-as-lolis stuff we've been getting since 2012 at least.Also, I remember discussions about stuff like thighs, armpits, and feet in anime were extremely rare outside of 4chan up until 2020. Even on Reddit, that shit used to be the sort of stuff only giga-coomers would talk about, but for some reason, the Scamdemic turned everyone into some weird fucko with niche fetishes that only French artists and Japanese pornography enthusiasts would've been into in decades prior.
>>108326327XP gang 2001-2014
>>108326400>spotify playlist open on the right
You had to be there.https://youtu.be/VpAZPPCLCUI?
>>108333763I remember a local TV station showing Sailor Moon at like 5-6am. No idea how that ended up happening.
>>1083279531995 is the exact year anime became sorta known in the west, due to ghost in the shell. that being said, watching an actual kids show like dragonball z still qualified you as a manchild.
>>108330682Don't even remember, I didn't use 7 for very long, I actually like 8.1 I probably played oblivion while I was still using xp then, xp looked like grap lol
>>108326327not a zoomer, which is why i can assure you many people had far gaudier desktops than what is shown on the right, that's pretty tame compared to what i've seen/done myself. only old farts (at the time) had totally stock/clean desktops
>>108336454Early Android setups were also a nightmare. I remember some old Android site used to feature top 10 themes or whatever and one was flame themed where the background was a flaming skull, every icon was orange and all the logos/symbols had some fire related thing going. The 2000s were a custom nightmare.
>>108333763>>108336222Cheap licensing.https://youtu.be/xmw3SlXL_mI?
>>108336515i'm not going to pretend the things i liked as a <12yo hold up today, but man, there were far more terrible themes in the '00s than there were good ones
>>108326327Frutiger Aero is the Gen Z equivalent of Vaporwave. Different aesthetic but both have a "the future that we were promised" vibe and both making fun of consumerism.The frutiger aero community has gone against a person trying to profit from what he sees as a 'aesthetic trend'Also indeed I miss the customization/ricing/theming of 2000s OSes.
>>108327951>Rocket Power on the TV>bunch of early Pokemon merch>a mother fucking Bionicle canisterI wanna go back, anons.
>>108327211Moving in general is a hassle, shifting around a CRT is inconvenient but it's far from the worst thing to move.
>>108336222kid at my school (1999 ish, federal caliphate of bongistan) used to hate Sailor Moon because his sister would be watching it all the time, i know she wasnt watching it online as i went to their house and they didnt even have dialup (lol poorfags) so it must have been on our TV as well
>>108336408>dragonball z still qualified you as a manchildFrom what I remember it was more like watching Dragonball Z meant you were black.
sovl
>>108327467You know the point he's making, you're just a sperg and mentally ill.
>>108326327>Vista with rocketdockLmao literally me in 2008
The evolution of the Xbox series captures the 2000's zeitgeist best.>OG Xbox: Matrix futurism era, xtreme themes obsession, dynamic non standardized UI's>Xbox 360 2005: things are starting to become more aero, streamlined, and corporatized.>Xbox 360 2010: we've reached the millenial minimalism era
>>108337449Seems like Microsoft dominates the discussion over all. When people argue about frutiger it's mostly revolving around which OS defines the 2000's.These days thre is nothing unique or defining about Microsoft UI's. Just slop
>>108337449i've only used the first one in that picture, but something about them is that i can look at the first 3 and reckon from a static image how i might use them, what are buttons and how i might expect it to react. the 4th one however, i can hardly tell the context of the screen being displayed, much less how to navigate it. i can see "home" is selected but then i also see "launch" above the game name. what's selected? anything? i couldn't say. what do the icons on the left means? i couldn't say. is the text in the middle of the screen buttons or just informational text? i couldn't say.
>>108326327Last image looks like 2010s but I was raised in povertyActual 2000s looked about like this for meZoomers likely never even had to use single core
>>108327951Is that Window Color, I havent seen such in ages2009 evolution, my first multicore (Phenom 9600) and finally Windows VistaWe used "Vistamizer" on our shit XP systems before to act like we already got itIt looked and felt so nice, I never understood why people disliked it, its only problem was the high requirement to run itOtherwise it basically feels like the beta of Windows 7
Sometimes I still dream of being here with my cat laying between my legs on this worn off chair. But then I realize I wake up in a huge canopy bed with a screen my childhood self could not have imagined to ever exist, surrounded by hardware that would have seemed magic 20 years ago while being affordable in this age. Its all what you make out of it. But the internet was better back then and the video gaming. It was a niche thing for enthusiasts and nerds, just as the internet itself had always been. Even things such as grow/aquarium lights evolved so much, around 2010 LED would probably cost a fortune, now you can get a proper lamp under 50 € from China. And LED strips. Even UV ones. Those things did not exist then.And one thing I definitely wouldn't want back is the old internet speed, 1 Mbit was considered fast, some people did not even have a flatrate or only dialup. I got flatrate in 2005, thats why I started very late in the internet while always seeing computers as devices to play video games and hoard data. But once I had torrented my first video game in this lifetime my mind quickly changed.
>>108336222Because that was an hour before kids had to leave for school. The bus came at 7AM.
Nobody thinks this except troons
>>108331400>>108326487I've seen them all fucked by major Motoko.
>>108338304depressing, isnt it?>Its all what you make out of itI dont want to make nothing out of anythin anymore. I just want to disappear.
>>108338304
>>108337632The white square around the game picture indicates it is highlighters. also the square grows to a larger size to indicate selection. children can figure this out btw
>>108337632I agree, they're better designed. I also only used the first one and I do miss the original xbox times like you wouldnt believe
>>108338472Why? Just don't pursue wealth and status the system is designed to keep you poor anyway. Keep your energy for yourself.>>108338500Those discs... I have many of them myself because I bought them from a site called "rebuy" a decade ago where you could get them for a few cents each. It got hard to obtain some games. Fear 1 was definitely the best, it has also 2 expansions. And didn't even know there is BF3 on disc.
>>108326327my desktop on the right
>>108338582I'm not pursuing anything because I have no energy. they dont think it be like it is but it do
>>108327428>>108327474>>108327532born in 2002 and have vivid memories of xp and only a few of vista. My parents upgraded their craptop to vista and complained it ran like shit (likely due to the new transparent windows graphics bullshit) which in turn resulted in us leaving our desktop pc on xp until windows 7 was readily available.
>fruitnigger gayro
Here are some of my actual desktop screenshots from those good ol' days!I believe all are Windows 2000, might be one XP.
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>>108340558
>>108326327Here's what the early 2000s actually looked like. My own pic from 2003.
>>108326327Is that Vista?I hate Vista like you wouldn't believe.Love from Kazakhstan.
>>108326327actual 2000's
>>108340898MOTTIS
>>108326477Why have 1000 songs when the only one you need is Linkin Park - In The End ?
>>1083263271. Vista was released in the 2000s2. Yes nostalgia does exaggerate. Guess what, the 80s didn't look like Miami Vice all around the world.
>9/11 happens>Windows Xp releases and kills 9x.
>>108340285>My parents upgraded their craptop to vista and complained it ran like shit comparable to complaining after upgrading a computer made for windows 98 to run windows xp
>>108326327heh
>>108341448
>>108341477Ahh yes, if it isn't the 90's (poor)
>>108332875false
They took this from us.
>>108326327Windows Vista was a thing in the 2000s doe? I had it on my first laptop. It was beautiful.
>unc baby duck faggots arguing about which OS belongs in le 2000s>another 4unc thread seething about da zoomers threadBoth are 2000s dumb fa/g/gots
>>108341508>luna on MEhow?
>>108341722probably some shit like 98se2me
>>108341722https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2019/05/revolutions-pack-97.html
>>108336515Kek I remember 00s and 10s Android themes, it was a new era in ugly UI.
>>108329031foobar2000 was and still is the GOAT. In 22 years, I haven't found anything better. WinAMP was slow and clunky on my hand-me-down PC in the mid-2000s.
>>108331840>>108331854>>108331862>>108331879>>108331894This is what the world actually looked like in the 2000s, they changed the shaders and are trying to gaslight us that it's just how old camera sensors worked
>>108327951left handed too
>>108341343Most normies aren't going to realize that a fancy new operating system requires a fancy new hardware upgrade. hence why Microshit is so persistent with "windows 11 ready!" these days.
>>108340549ah noir. i remember when adv release that anime in the states.
off-topic spam thread with 200 replies, posted from an android phone
So why are people mad at fake nostalgia that at least resembles old stuff? I mean anything beats modern soulless style at this point. Some people say we didn't care back then, and that might be somewhat true since the global media wasn't liquid shit, but that doesn't mean we didn't notice when things went shit.>>108326327That Vista is over the top but technically still 2000s. Everyone skipped it nonetheless.
>>108341477Looks almost like some generic German family home some looked like that until the early 2000s. Although the massive oak furniture was real craftsmanship and very sturdy, it eventually became sign of poverty. Just as the legendary tiled table.People from DDR or other socialist countries lived like that for much longer.
>>108326327>as if zoomers weren't around in the 2000sIt kinda was almost exactly like the rightmost pic, that looks like a pretty typical XP rice back then. Even that it is some discord tranny's bullshit rice it is rather faithful.>>108326400This one's absolutely true, that's just some faggot's setup on the right.
>>108344889I actually still have a legal key for Office 2003 but I don't use it since they enforced this annoying docx format I enforced to only crack microshaft softwareBut not the newest one probably Office 98 is enough for 99 % of users at least when you only write documents
>>108327532My parents bought a new laptop with vista and what the fuck did they get broken wifi drivers preinstalled. The drivers were completely fucked. On the factory install. When 7 came out the wifi card started working again.Nothing fundamentally wrong with Vista itself, retards. I've used it since and it's basically the same thing as 7.
>>108344821>People from DDR or other socialist countries lived like that for much longer.Nope, just nope. Everyone had uneven plastered walls (the plasterers were all plastered) and the shittiest chipboard furniture around their place.Party members don't count fuck off.
>>108343650i think people dont know themselves too much to the point they confuse themselves of hating over-the-top almost satirically done aesthetics to normal reenaction
>>108341477thats how my childhood home looked my faggot nigger gay stupid boomer parents sold it after (((modernizing))) holy shit im mad now
>>108326490My creative MuVo still works but I always wanted creative Jukebox. Best looking player at that time.
Thinking back to the era, it's interesting how the clash of styles was so big.A lot of the infrastructure and people's homes was still something wood rich full of brown colors from the 60's-90's, yet you had the shiny silver gadgets of the Y2K and then the super bright and wacky early 00's experimental stuff around. Most of the time it clashed pretty hard with the environment, but still somehow fit the cozier feel in general.It took quite a long while for minimalism and sleek surfaces to become a thing in normal homes, but at that point the early 00's styles were already far gone and globohomo minimalism in art was the standard too.It'll be interesting to see where we go from here. It would make sense if corporations tried resurrecting the era, but they're incompetent as hell so I don't have high hopes for them pulling it off successfully or even realizing they should be going for it.>>108343650Just the same as usual, mostly outrage for the sake of it by retards, who want to rag on the younger generation for no reason.Often the people who are "angry" were born in the late 90's or even early 00's and barely even remember anything of the era to begin with.
>>108327191>>108327561I had this one in 2008
>>108346452I think Japanese and US companies accepted the options new(-ish) technology gave and wanted to highlight them also in product design.Honestly this was more fun. And "still something wood" -solid use of good materials from the past- is probably also something consumers would like to return. Bland and minimum effort seems more of the result of the upward redistribution of wealth than anything else to me.
>>108346762>the result of the upward redistribution of wealthNice way to slide in your socialist political points in reddit tranny freak.
>>108338463>my left ear enjoys this
>>108326400There was no demon slaying in the room on the left.
>>108326327actually i had macos theme on my xp
>>108326327I used Vista and RocketDock extensively in the 2000s. What is the point you are trying and failing to make?
>>108347034Hi Chris
>themes for media player>always black and "FUTURE BLUE"FUCCCK I WANT TO GO BACK, this isn't the actual XP black theme, it is somebody's replicaALL the mp3, movie, anime rips, goddamnit... limewire and utorrent were fucking peak then.... I miss it so much...
>>108326327During 2008-2010 it really was like the latter pic, but before I agree it was the former. I called it "Aquarium theme of Windows 7" and "transparent orbs" "transparent windows" and I did think of it as futuristic, where as XP and 2k themes as the current norm. The best way to put it is in 2007-2009 Windows users simultaneously interacted with three design concepts1, the world of XP's Luna and its deviations like (silver, green royale)2, the world of business folks and schools using classic themes, or the very rare hold out Windows 2000s3, the world of vista orbs, translucent windows, and window's 7 glass look and office 2007.
>>108326327>LeftThat's what my first PC looked like when I bought it in 2004.>RightThat's what my second PC looked like in the late 2000s.
>>108326543I used those koss foam earplugs in the 2000s and remember trying to shill them to anyone even remotely interested because they were just miles ahead of what most people were using.
i reskinned my shell with windowblinds and probably spent more time with a custom skin than the default XP one
>>108326327Windows Vista became widely available in 2007, so this isn't entirely inaccurate, but it's also not for the majority of the decade. If you look elsewhere you will find the bubbly design earlier in the decade. Don't forget that Vista was supposed to come out long before 2007
>>108331879I need that keyboard
>>108326400Reminds me of this
>>108329952The view of "productivity and efficiency should always come first" is undoubtedly true, but it also killed cool looking desktops. Look at anybody who uses windows 11 and all of their setups look the exact same. It sucks.
>>108341517Now there's only 3 options for smartphones and they all look the same
>>108343650Well said, anon
the mainstream anime of 2009https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5lz2CYNR4
>>108326327>>108326400I lived through the 2000s and it always looked like the right of these images. Also my house looked like picrel.Cope and seethe.
>>10832654398', can I join? :D
>>108350960https://youtu.be/gFUJ5lT_eds
>>108351192Indeed my room sounded like that too, and it also smelled like soap + ocean air
>>108351270Same, I sure miss it.
>>108350647Depending on who you are the bottom was the 2000sjust swap the atari with an OG Xbox ran through a discount no-name VCRBeing rural poor and you were in a different universe, still the case today honestly.
>>108326350is this bait?
>>108347094>i suffer from mental illness and think i know who is behind this particular post
@108326543ok boomer
>>108327532This. Everyone who actually used it back then hated Vista. End zoomer revisionism.
>>108347276>ALL the mp3, movie, anime rips, goddamnit... limewire and utorrent were fucking peak then.... I miss it so much...that explains you are stuck on your phone while watching tiktok, they all still exists, but they lost relevance due to the rise of smartphones.
>>108349207windows xp sp2 themes were peak.
>>108326327windows 7 was released in 2009, so yes it was part of the 2000s
>>108326327it looks like a shitty chinese imitation of xp/7also fuck docks
>>108353415it released at the end of the decade, but the beta was in 2008, people started moving to windows 7 around 2010.
>>108353425looks like some persian windows bootleg
>>108353415that’s a windows vista theme for windows 10 actually.
>>108353425reminds me of red star os
The issue is that people think the "sales pitch" aesthetic is what people actually used. See >>108326400 for an example. Right is what was sold, but left is what was actually lived.
vista was my first computer
>>108327009BAAASED
