Were the 90s really this awful?

Were the 90s really this awful?

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That's an extreme case, almost no one used laptops in the 90s outside of business men, and desktops sure as hell didn't use shitty monochrome monitors with colors that looked like a slightly better typewriter.

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x files is basically fucking boring and grey so much so you can hardly notice it droning on in the background unless cia niggers is involved then its kinda interesting

>390MB hard drive

dang

not true, my step dad and I played a crap ton of SimAnt on his old lappy

>tfw remember my first Windows 95 machine perfectly
>being so excited when GTA 1 came out only to find out it was 80Mb and I only had a 36Mb hard drive

I sure did enjoy those 16Mb of RAM though, proper multitasking

cd windows
win

memories

>not setting PATH in autoexec.bat
I bet you don't even SWITCHES=/F

Color laptops were extremely expensive back then.
I have pic related but it's broken. It was made in 1991 and has a color TFT LCD (VGA), not the DSTN shit that most color laptops had. Needless to say, it cost more than 12000 DM (around 6000$)

>DIR /W
>not /D /P

And apparently this was the first laptop with a touchpad.

...

dir /d didnt exist yet

it was just this year i took a shoebox full of old windows CDs and burned them in a 55 gallon drum full of trash, i had win95 win98se winnt4, win2k, and a few CDRs with various old windows software, i abandoned windows because Linux is free and better,

olivetti made some pretty nice looking shit

who asked for your blog???

you are worst than fucking vegans. There's a really short list of things worst than vegans. You are up there with pedophiles and people who talk in the movies.

my nigga
SimAnt is one of my favorite games in the history of gaming.

>He never play Warcraft II Tides of Darkness in Monochrome without sound
>He never played gorilla.bas in DOS with his girlfriend on a shared keyboard where fingers would occasionally touch
>He never installed Windows 95 via 30 floppy discs and see the glorious drum roll as it prepares internet explorer and desktop

you missed out

CD-ROM Magazines had the best stuff ever, I regret having tossed those CDs now and not having backed them up before hand. There was shit there that I would value more today than the demos back then. Some had books inside, some had those small files with music demos that are hard to find today, I still don't know how you load those motherfuckers.

>30+ floppy disk software packages
>"missing out"
please nigger I have enough fun occasionally using my 36-disk office set on old laptops and I wouldn't wish that abortion on anyone

back then i had to print out the hentai and stories to fap in private. you can't fit much on 1.44mb disk.

You are currently living in the worst age of computing, kids. Computers used to be unique and non-linear. Now it's all the same shit with a different sticker.

>You will never go to your local Tandy/Radioshack to buy components

Oh how I miss fucking around with config.sys and autoexec.bat to make any new game playable. NOT.

>You are currently living in the worst age of computing,

If anything its cheaper to get into computing today and much more fun, we're just all too distracted by the internet, porn, work and life. We also suffer from a lack of serendipity, we're all on a handful of websites, I still wonder to this day what the hell did I do on the internet 10 years ago.

Soon I'm going to get into a little bit of data hoarding and may get into RPI to learn how to make a few servers at home for file sharing or IRC.

you mean the age of two or three usable platforms and hundreds of mutually incompatible no-name platforms with garbage hardware, garbage operating systems and hilariously tiny, overpriced software bases that were obsolete within a few months and had no clear upgrade path? yeah those were the days indeed

it was a more exciting time but acting like it was actually better on a practical basis is showing your age (or your lack of it depending on how deeply tinted those nostalgia goggles are)

trips of motherfucking truth.

god damn i just realized that is some really nice font going on this magazine, anyone know what this is?

Member when software was written well enough to take up a few MB rather than a few GB? I member.

>Were the 90s really this awesome

FTFY

>1993
>4 core CPU
huh?

the 90's were the best time for PC Gaming. Modern PC Games are "muh resolution lel", the 90's were about tits and exploding flesh, cuss words and making your own maps and shit

Consoles are now the premiere gaming devices, I shake my head and laugh at the teenagers today who consider spending 2000 dollars so they can enjoy another million pixels on their widescreen monitors "gaming"

>tfw i remember this from when i was like 3
>tfw had some edugames where i had to load in DOS

>people who talk in the movies.
So niggers?

well gaming is gaming isn't it? if its a old atari, an old NES, your old 486 running DOS games or a xbox running GTA V or angry birds on your wifes cell phone, its all gaming.

The thing that we had back then that we don't today is barriers, barriers of resources that caused us to learn how to overcome those barriers, and barriers that caused developers to use the shittiest machines to develop their games so they'd know it would work for everyone. Today if you're on the wrong platform then fuck you.

"what is multiprocessing" - Sup Forums

I once replicated every word in the Brain Age book in the startup console command line hoping that I can somehow get it to desktop, just so I can play my Reader Rabbit.
They were bad times, but good enough to play Mortal Combat with a one button joystick.

>Were the 90s really this awful?- 37 posts and 9 image replies shown.
no. they were fucking great.

It's an SGI workstation. Those things were beastly in their time.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxLa6P6exc

I actually miss it.

>Megabytes
pouet.net/prod.php?which=65342

What should I do with all of these?

nah, by end of 1992 win3,1 was all I used for 99.9% of the time

Remember when software was well written enough to fit on a series of punch cards that you had to read in the correct order?

ITT: le wrong generation faggots

the 90s sucked retards, almost everything today is infinitely better except single player vidya

How can software be made great again. It's soon going to be common for 60 GB vidya.

It was better when technology didn't pander to retards.

>he thinks technology didn't pander to retards in the 90s
What do you think AOL was? Why do you think Windows 95 got so popular?

Again, you're just proving that you're a faggot le wrong generation tool.

ahem

>aid to Switzerland
kek. Based Bill bailing out shadowy banks.

REMEMBER WHEN COMPUTING WAS LIMITED TO VACUUM TUBES AND PUNCHCARDS AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE ALL THESE STUPID YOUNG FAGGOTS WITH THEIR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND MICROCHIPS

TRULY THE GOLDEN AGE OF COMPUTING, EVERYTHING PANDERS TO RETARDS NOW AMIRITE GUISE

Back in the 90s you had to know how to use a computer to use it. Now, it's getting dumbed down and locked down more and more so retards can't accidentally break their computer.

>Back in the 90s you had to know how to use a computer to use it.
Nice tautology, retard. Windows 95 started the "dumbing down" and was the most user-friendly OS at that point. But you don't know that because you're an underage faggot with nostalgia for a time you never lived through.

You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

gold

>consumer technology
>backdoors on every level
>Intel ME
>AMD AMT/TrustZone
What went wrong?

>1984
>buy a Mac
>it just works
>2017
>buy a Mac
>they are actually harder to use

No, that's obviously you, since you seem to fetishize a time when 128k was blazing fast because you're under the mistaken impression that normies couldn't figure out how to use windows 95 (protip: they could and they did)

You severely overestimate normalfag intelligence, they're incredibly retarded.

He's completely right though, Windows 95 from a functional standpoint is virtually no different than Windows 7/Windows 10. Sure aesthetics are different and there are more functions in the latter, but Explorer as a whole is relatively unchanged.

The only thing that's less 'difficult' for today's machines is 3rd Party Software and Hardware, only because Windows 95 had mediocre plug and play support, but to be fair, that was literally the first implementation of it.

>i am le speshul snowflake xddd
murder yourself

No he's not. There were far less normalfags on the internet in 1995 and technology wasn't a fashion accessory yet.

globalists took over sillicon valley

> technology wasn't a fashion accessory yet.
What a meaningless statement.

But still more normalfags than 1975.

You were probably a normalfag by 1995 standards anyways.

There really weren't.
Internet was filled with normies BEFORE www.

Yes it is, being trendy and cool is what appeals to normalfags. That's why they buy a new iPhone every year to use a new button at the cost of a car.

I think with usenet being restricted to colleges and universities, the internet was more normie before the www (as a % of userbase) compared to now.

t. faggot who buys a new graphics card every two years

Why would I need to when my current one works fine?

>owning a graphics card
normie faggot

>normies
>building PCs
pick one

Now you're just throwing buzzwords around.

Building a PC is the most normie shit ever, especially if it's for gaming.

I bet you watch "tech" youtubers for benchmarks too you fucking normie.

This is what we had instead of Google and Wikipedia for learning about stuff.

Gaming is for normalfaggots, you can't deny this.

Only normalfags use normie

t. normalfag expert

>What should I do with all of these?

Start your own museum?

Outside of shit like call of duty, not really. I don't even play video games much anyways.

I rest my case

>being this defensive over your normalfag hobby
why don't you go upgrade your fashion accessory GPU normalfaggot?

I bet you use windows too because other operating systems are too hard, retarded normie needs dumbed down technology

I don't use windows, stop projecting retard.

sure you don't normie.

Dat aliasing.

You almost gotta wonder if the aliasing was done ironically. It's hard to believe that a multi-billion dollar company's marketing department would intentionally release their flagship product's logo and not bother to smooth out the pixels.

I don't, go be agrivated somewhere else.

>no proof
retarded windows normalfaggot detected

That's actually a lot, when I first started using computers, I was on a 40 megabyte harddrive.

You're an idiot who's mad as fuck right now. Fuck off.

You'd have to lose high res textures

This was supposed to be shown at tiny CRTs, it's so blurry the aliasing will make it worse

How do you fix that?

>F-FUCK OFF I C-CAN'T PROVE I-I'M NOT U-SING WINDOWS LIKE A RETARD BUT Y-YOU'RE THE ONE W-WHO IS MAD
Hello normalfaggot!

I see that dumbed down pandering technology has been kind to you ;)

Me too desu senpai.

Based Roberta Willams pt. 1

>Back when I got started, which sounds like ancient history, back then the demographics of people who were into computer games, was totally different, in my opinion, then they are today. Back then, computers were more expensive, which made them more exclusive to people who were maybe at a certain income level, or education level. So the people that played computer games 15 years ago were that type of person. They probably didn't watch television as much, and the instant gratification era hadn't quite grown the way it has lately. I think in the last 5 or 6 years, the demographics have really changed, now this is my opinion, because computers are less expensive so more people can afford them. More "average" people now feel they should own one.

Based Roberta Willams pt. 2

>I really think that the idea that women are somehow 'punished' or 'resented' in the computer industry is overblown. I never experienced any resentments or maltreatment by anybody in the computer industry about my gender. Never. In fact, it was the opposite; I always felt that the 'men' in the computer industry were happy to have me around. I never felt that it was a gender thing. I think that, perhaps, why you don't see a lot of women in the computer game industry (I don't know; maybe it's different today and there a lot of them) is because, at least in the old days, computer games and computers just weren't the focus of the average woman or girl. In other words, the women/girls themselves just weren't that interested. Now, you could say that that was because the games weren't designed with females in mind (which was probably true because the 'boys' were designing them...for themselves!), but, computers just weren't something that, at least in those days, the average woman was interested in. Even a lot of men in those days weren't all that interested in computers! Nowadays things are different; computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince all sorts of people that they want and need a computer in their daily lives. But, in those days, none of that was true. But, back to the 'female' thing: No, I never experienced any problem with being a female in a so-called male-dominated field. They were happy to have me. It was just really up to me to actually 'put' myself there. If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they just have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody, in reality, is keeping them out...in my opinion, anyway.

the 90s were great

make point and click games great again

even with those basic Dos frontends