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I have one, it's soulless
>>108847473why are u faggots so obsessed with old shit tech just because its old? grow up retard
>>108847538This honestly, I was there in the 2000s on dial up with a dual core AMD K8 2GHz and 1GB of RAM on XP and it was ass, I think a lot of this nostalgia shit on social media is by people who weren't even there.
>>108847596I was there too, except I was an elementary schooler then so it was cool and normal and nostalgic to wait 30 minutes for the computer to boot
>>108847622I get it you like the era, My school had G3s in the lab and they were cool, but waiting around on hard drives out whole childhood wasn't a good thing, SSDs couldn't have become big enough soon enough.
to be honest that era was kinda shit despite being young myself if you didnt have the money to buy good gear and high end stuff at the time
>>108847473They were slop, as someone whose lesbian moms had a number of them while refusing to buy me a wangblowz PC to play games on.
>>108847643That's another thing too, young millennials and zoomers are used to having bought an Ivy Bridge computer or something of the era and using the motherfucker for 10 years straight, they would be horrified to find out how quick a computer would become dated and would need to be replaced if you want to run something, things like Core 2 duo and later revolutionary CPUs were a godsend because computers were finally "fast enough" for normie usage, and then SSDs got big enough and now everybody booted fast and had huge processing power that stayed relevant longer even when the computer was like 5 years old, something you could only dream of in the single core, RAM measured in megabytes era.
>>108847596I think people miss that it sucked so much no one other than professionals and enthusiasts really bothered with it.
>>108847473>>108847538Pre-OSX macs were trash, DESU.OS9 had cooperative multitasking (meaning the entire OS behaved like an event-driven web-app where a misbehaving callback could stall the entire system) and a single, shared address space for every application.PowerPC was elegant, though.Windows 9x had preemptive multitasking, but it also lacked proper process isolation and memory protection, and BSODs were common.
>>108847473it was a pieve of shit I had to put 20 of them in a training centre because of a cunt back in the day only for cunt to discover on his own after insisting on them and wheedling management to his bullshit that literally nothing software wise they needed ranb on them. They ended up beibng ripped out stuck in a cupboard and rep-laced with cheap optiplexscunts should stay out of the way of IT decisions OP, meaning (you).EVERY uppity brainless cunt scheming to buy apple computers because cunt in a business winds up the same way for the same reasons
>>108847658Speak for yourself. I had a pentium based Toshiba Portige running Windows 98SE up until 2007.Firefox ran fine on it although it didn't have built-in WiFi so I had to have the PCMCIA wifi card plugged in to browse the web. I learned Java and Pascal on it.
>>108847661these abominations were out in the XP era, they were absolute thrash one came in puke neon orange as far as I recall.
>>108847538>why are u faggots so obsessed with old shit tech just because its old?a lot of old tech is fucking great, these crapple boxes were not even when brand new.
>>108847538There is nothing more soulful than 90's Apple. Apple had fully modular notebooks before you were even a load of sperm in your dad's condom, you could switch out everything from the DVD drive to the keyboard and even the CPU in 5 minutes, and the OS was as configurable as you could possibly imagine but you will never get to experience that level of flexibility in your life, you WILL only use the Chromejeet and Droidjeet tablets and you WILL be happy. Go fuck yourself.
>>108847673>Speak for yourself. I had a pentium based Toshiba Portige running Windows 98SE up until 2007.You were using a doorstop, Anon... pretty much anyone anything made before when Core 2 duo dropped was turned into e-waste, sure it worked, but you had high end Pentium 4 3.6GHz chips using 115w getting fucking smoked by a 25w laptop CPU, it was over, that's how fast things were moving, nowadays it's not like that, a lot of people buy old Haswell chinkpads cheap, slam 16GB of RAM into it and there's nothing you would regularly do on a integrated graphics laptop you couldn't do on that chinkpad unless it was a high end game, this is not something that happened back then.
>>108847679>they were absolute thrash one came in puke neon orange as far as I recall.this is what happens when cocaine and aids designs a computer touching tjis is whsat gave steve jobs terminal anal hiv and caused his polo neck to eventually strange him to death.
>>108847701its just weird how human and sovlful tech used to be. why can't we still have that?
>>108847688>>108847538I think the difference is that before the iPhone it was all about doing things for the user so they'd be loyal to your brand.Now it's all about getting them hooked/addicted and spamming them with ads/notifications. The only people who don't do this are fringe FOSS people. It legitimately feels like some kind of post-apocalyptic dystopia by comparison.
>>108847622>>108847596Linux was fun back then.It felt almost counter-culturish, and even though it was rough around the edges, it made Windows 9x feel like a toy.It was so neat to finally have a REAL UNIX on your computer, like the kind you'd read about in computer books, with all of those neat utilities like sed, grep, awk, Perl, file compression, FTP, etc., and a REAL C compiler--and it's all free (or cheap, if you bought the CDs)!But hard drive space was so scarce that you'd often have to make a "Sophie's Choice" about which desktop environment to use, and since Gnome was smaller and had a head-start, that's what most people defaulted to.In fact, early 2000s dual-booters not wanting to sacrifice space for KDE is probably a major, under-acknowledged factor in Gnome's triumph over it.
>>108847720I want to try making a screwdriver with tang and vanilla Smirnoff.
>>108847724apple computers were always shit, apple woul have cone broke if that tit gates had not been a bleeding heart and kept them afloat in the 90s
>>108847727>Linux was fun back then.linux barely functioned back then the only people who used it were college students skipping sun or other mainframe C labs so they could do their shit at home and smoke weed
>>108847727>FTP,wot ou reall think you could not use ftp on windows 95 and even dos?(and telnet)ffs
>>108847596I had a 486SX-25 with 4 MB and it was fucking amazing.
>>108847751Ikr, people dropped out of college over that shit...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qj8p-PEwbISeriously though, Linux has come a long way, I've been fucking with just works distros since Ubuntu 8.10, and what Linux Mint and Ubuntu can do now are absolutely incredible, if you showed a 13 year old me at the time what Linux was gonna be like in the future, I'd be like "damn is this a $99 system? where do I get it?">>108847766Crazy how quickly RAM want from 4MB in the 90s to the point where a mid range 2008 computer had 4096mb, at the rate things were going, we should have computers with 4TB of RAM.
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>>108847727I have a copy of slackware I think that I bought on CD for my powermac G3
>>108847538>>108847596it isn't about nostalgia at all it just looks cool.
>>108847914That's nostalgia Anon, it's not wrong, but is it what it is, I have a soft spot for the era of Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard with the way everything looked, but these are old slow computers, just like how the Nvidia 8000 series is special to me because it was relevant when I first got a computer and I love the aesthetics of the cards, it's beautiful but the computers we have now are absolutely incredible, the future is indeed gay but we have fast computers.
>>108847759Yeah, if you pirated or shelled out $$$ for it.Windows 9x came with almost nothing out of the box.Windows didn't even have any way to compress or decompress files in .zip or .tar.gz format.I downloaded the WinZip evaluation and used that for some of my earliest uploads to Sourceforge and CPAN before switching to Linux.
>>108847940you are just full of shit sorry
>>108848061I'm full of being a motherfucker who has seen generations of computers come and go, seen things get faster and get cheaper, which means all the speed and lower power consumption that I would've liked during core 2 duo days materialize.I love the times I had with the old computers, but that's what I and I think a lot of people are in love with, it's beyond the computers themselves.
Fuck those pieces of shit in my computer class in middle school but instead of the colored ones we got the emacs. Since we were the first class of the day, in a 50 minute class period booting up would take 15-20 minutes and have 1 application to run aaannnddd class is over. This was in 2009.
>>108847473I like the slot-loading and fruit colors better. However, if I ever get into collecting I'd get the snow model because it matches better with everything else I have and it's not as highly sought out as the colors>>108847727Unironically, Mac OS X Tiger is more useful on PowerPC than Linux is. Tiger has a BSD subsystem very similar to Linux and I even got bash 5.2.21 working on it as well as many surprisingly modern packages via Tigerbrew. This may be baby duck syndrome but I still prefer Office 2004:mac, Adobe CS2, and iLife '06 to any of the free alternatives I might get working on Linux. If you want a modern browser for. Tiger I'd look at PowerFox, but the biggest limitation will be that the hardware is just not powerful enough for the modern web even with a modern browser and optimizations such as FoxPEP and a mobile user agent. If you want a solely text-based web experience you can install Lynx via Tigerbrew which doesn't use up much system resources. For better performance, I'd recommend swapping out the hard drive for an SSD and installing Shuriken.
>>108848047Windows 95 fully supported FTP out of the box. It included a built-in, text-based FTP command-line client to connect to servers and transfer files
>>108847914Nah the spectrum +3 was a much more capable machine with a bigger software library than the imac, hell a commodore 64 or an amiga was
>>108848136>This may be baby duck syndromeIt's not baby duck syndrome if it works, I still use Vegas Pro 13 and Photoshop CS6 in a VM on Linux Mint because I still use them all the time, baby duck syndrome is when you go out of your way to use out of date software like Windows 7 on the internet, and then get upset when people don't support it, there's nothing wrong with using old software if it works, but using old software when it can no longer be used for what you were doing because everything is moving on is baby duck.
>>108848170windows 7 is one of the peak offline lan OSs because of it's library same for XP not everything is about the hyperlie and subscibeMost loonix sucks ass and is barely used for anything more than web browsing and watching streaming shite
>>108848198>windows 7 is one of the peak offline lan OSs because of it's librarySo true, I kept using it until 2023 when chrome support ran out, and I was like "wait, all I do on this thing is shitpost, run CS6 and Vegas, I could just switch to Linux for daily needs and virtualize this shit on newer and newer computers forever" and I've been very happy with it.
>>108848169IDGAF about using an iMac or its software i wasn't even alive when they were relevant they just look cool. why can't you comprehend that i don't care about the usefulness of these things and only care about their superficial looks.
>>108847473looks like shit also by crapple
>>108847596It makes me long for the days where brown's weren't everywhere and in everything. We had 2 blacks in my whole high school.
>>108848648It's true, the non dystopian, good old days are what people are longing for, not waiting on garbage hard drives, slow internet, phones barely even had internet pre-iPhone, it almost makes me cry how much crazy shit from the 2000s wasn't captured forever because phone cameras were a joke, any video that still exists is because someone either had a really good point and shoot camera to shoot video onto flash storage (very expensive in 2000s) or a MiniDV on hand.Technology itself sucked back then and I do not miss it.
>>108848684Yeah people miss the hope of what that new technology was supposed to bring. I had the first creative mp3 player and shit was great even though I think 11 songs was the limit. I remember my first Sony cybershot. The one that you slid the front down to turn it on and take photos. Now everything is gay and brown. I'm reverting back to my 90s 00s self. I'm thinking of moving to a new country out of the US and it's ridiculous and sad I'm having to research immigration and racial make ups of the places I want to visit/live.
>>108847596y'think?
>>108847596>I think a lot of this nostalgia shit on social media is by people who weren't even there.It's mostly larping zoomer faggots./vr/ has become a hell hole because of them.
>>108847596The key is that it isn't the 2000s anymore>fully matured driver stacks with most of the bugs hammered out>any software you want easy to find and pirate>it's not full of bullshit malware or viruses because nobody cares about pwning computers that can't authenticate on modern websites or outrun a raspberry pi>upgrades (mostly) trivial where there are actual pain points>always have a modern system backstopping use cases the old shit can't handleSucked ass being stuck on a Compaq Pentium 4 your dad stole from work in 2006 but now in 2026 you can max it out with all the funny little niche high-end options nobody bought and precisely curate your software stack to experience the best of the era with few of the downsides
>>108848684This is just poorfag cope honestly
>>108847473Wrong
>>108848149Windows 95 didn't even ship with a TCP/IP stack.Fine, maybe it had some FTP utility that no one used, but in general, its built-in applications were and still, to this day, are quite limited.I remember a Raymond Chen post where he disccused this very issue, and assserted MS was getting better at this, and touted the calculator being updated to support BIGNUM-style arithmetic as it was some super advanced feature that we should be so thankful MS finally added.
>>108847473It was a good computer for women and boomers, but MacOS 9.x sucked, it was cooperative multi-tasking with a single semaphore, so if something crashed it was likely the OS crashed too.
Dip oldgoodnewbads in the zinc plating bath
Pic related is the best use for them.>>108847720The orange ones sold poorly, so Steve Jobs decided to only allow retailers to buy them in equal amounts of each color. Retailers hated this but they wanted the other colors so they sucked it up, selling the orange models at a loss, making it up on the other colors.
>>108849678It was a pet peeve when people would call Trumpet's version of winsock "twin sock".
>>108847661The Macintosh was the greatest system ever designed, completely rock so-
>>108847661Majority of them can run OS X. System 9 was a stop gap that inherited a lot of the flaws that existed since '84.Minimum / Preferred memory management
>>108849678What the fuck are you smoking? 95 absolutely came with a TCP/IP stack.3.1 didn't.
>>108848987I hate the hockey puck mouse with every fiber of my being. We had those Macs in school and being forced to use that abomination makes me furious. If you weren't a second-grader, it was too small for your hand.
>>108853185This happened so much on OS 7-9 for no fucking reason given. You'd be watching your 240p porn you spent 7 hours downloading, and then it would just timebomb out of nowhere.
>>108847473ux was the same look as intel era mac
>>108853322>display that doesn't look like shit 1024x768 of old>actually fast and doesn't puke tons of heat into the room like powerPC shitIt kinda is based
>>108853304okay i'd actually sit on this
>>108854271I didn't think it'd be phallic enough for (you) to sit on
