Thanks!
I hate it.
windows has normalized all that shit so well that this image is genuinely disturbing compared to the win 11 start menu. I am glad my windows days ended years ago
I like THIS Windows
I love this, I wasted so much time on my phone. The Playstation start up sound was amazing. I need to open it on a conputer
Woah cool website, I don’t how’d you know about this but thanks you
How? Using Internet since more than 25 Years result in only ignoring the most new pages.
Nice, even moving the computer into the trash worked as expected.
Even a community in GitHub with forks, mods and plug-ins.
That’s kind of overwhelming to me. It’s like there’s no bottom to that rabbit hole. I love it and I have so many questions.
Half-Life 3 confirmed
Oh yeah, that’s gooooood…
The Doom (Gafa 3D) really works like the original, with some “differences”.
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Recall snapshots back to 2003, damn that’s crazy
Look how they massacred my boy…
You could substantially de-uglify XP with a different theme, but, damn…that ugly
Don’t care what anybody says about how much they loved XP that shit was always ugly.
Which one, black or silver?
Homestead
I crave retro futuristic. The flesh craves nostalgia. Also… pentiums and 512mb of ram would have fucking been cooked if they tried this lmao
Think about the Pentium versions of the Celeron, too. XP was their peak time.
Honestly though can we go back to the days or at least adopt design philosophies where the entire OS, programs, and everyday browsing could fit on just that much ram
It’s missing filling the start bat with a massive Copilot box and weather/news widget. Or maybe missed an opportunity to make Clippy the AI assistant.
I love-hate it.
Since at that time these shits weren’t really normalized, I can imagine some people would actually like these things and maybe even use them. It would have feel… kinda modern? If that makes sense… (tho when I first saw XP after using 95 and 98 in my life at that point, it felt absolutely super-duper modern x3)
I like this image - it is really nicely done. I don’t like what it represents, but the image itself is decent.
Given that this was the prime time for Bonzi Buddy, I’m inclined to say I agree with you. People chose these things years ago, because it added more to the experience outside of “here is your word processor, here is notepad, here are the three games you have to play”.
And Bonzi even was a 3rd party thing. Now imagine that shit, just built into the system by that time. 😅
Heck, even MSN Browser was a thing and I’m pretty sure just because it said “Good afternoon” or some shit when you launched it.
I remember seeing AOL on Win3.11 (I had been using telnet, pine, lynx.) and it looked like a bunch of spam ads.
Windows is ideal for experts, Twilight Zone lovers and desire for adventure, for the rest Linux is better (In the beginning it was the other way around, the first Distros even caused some suicids)
Looks like ads in the start menu aren’t anything new.
Edit: I’m dumb, but I’m leaving my comment here.
Some Microsoft exec somewhere: “WRITE THAT DOWN”
They will distribute this image and say: “See? It has always been this way…”
I preferred Yahoo Messenger to Windows solely due to the ROTFLMAO emoji… it kicked ass. Made me giggle every time I used it.
Did it kick the llama’s ass?
Yes!!!
It’s fantastic.
You missed out on hella custom emoticons. Had hundreds of "lol"s
Edit: and nudges lol
XP
The little shield next to the turn off computer icon implying it’ll update it without asking is a nice touch
