/gNG/ - Sup Forums Nostalgia General

First time making this thread, I hope it catches on.

Let's share some Sup Forums related nostalgia memories.

I had a class in high school called Computer Systems and Maintenance, and it was the coolest class I've ever taken, mostly because of the teacher. His style of teaching was super weird. I'll try my best to greentext some stuff.

>day one of CS&M class
>teacher pairs us up and tells us to grab a pc from the pile
>literally a pile of old school pcs in the back room of his classroom
>first assignment is to take it apart completely
>after that was done our next two weeks were spend learning about each piece of hardware and putting it all back together again
>once everything was running we moved on to learning about the command line
>none of us knew shit, we were dumb
>teacher instructs us to delete literally everything
>I'm not super familiar with the windows command line anymore but it was probably something like deltree windows or del *.* or something
>then he passes out cds to each group with ubuntu 4.6 I think
>next lesson was installing an os from nothing, then we were instructed on why linux exists and how ubuntu works

That class was awesome. Oh yeah, and the end of the semester...

>like a month and a half left in the semester and the teacher tells us he's out of stuff to teach us
>there's a loft above his classroom with a ton of tables and old hardware and other junk
>tells us if we clean that up, move all of our pcs up there, and figure out how to set up LAN, he has a surprise for us
>took us a few days but we got it
>he hands out Quake to each group and tells us to have fun

The last month or so of that school year in that class was spent playing LAN Quake the entire class period. There were probably 20 of us and we were paired so we had 10 pcs and usually switched off between deaths or whatever. Shit was awesome.

Hey Faggots,

My name is John, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are fat, retarded, no-lifes who spend every second of their day looking at stupid ass pictures. You are everything bad in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever gotten any pussy? I mean, I guess it’s fun making fun of people because of your own insecurities, but you all take to a whole new level. This is even worse than jerking off to pictures on facebook.

Don’t be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I’m pretty much perfect. I was captain of the football team, and starter on my basketball team. What sports do you play, other than “jack off to naked drawn Japanese people”? I also get straight A’s, and have a banging hot girlfriend (She just blew me; Shit was SO cash). You are all faggots who should just kill yourselves. Thanks for listening.

Pic Related: It’s me and my bitch

I formatted my cousins harddrive with ms-dos and bricked his whole system by accident because its one of the only commands I knew

this guy and his outdated copypasta memes

Nice. How did he handle that?

Not quite Sup Forums related but that reminds me of a time when my neighbor who was like 15 lent me his copy of Mario 64 with almost all of the stars, I was like 5 so too young to understand how to do fucking anything and all I did was delete his files and give the game back.

We were young at the time.
I think he just didnt use the computer for a while and then his parents eventually asked him why he wouldnt use it. Then he told on me like a little faggot!

His dad was super strict though so I dont blame him


Him personally, I dont think he was super angry or anything just kind of amazed at what i did and probably a bit sad lol. I fucked his life up a few times. poor guy

>15 year old not knowing better than to lend a 5 year old games

he deserved it

Haha I didn't grow up with msdos so I don't quite understand the pain but I was given my first computer in 1999, it was a windows 95 machine that was upgraded to run 98. Grandpa gave it to me when he upgraded, I fucked that thing up so many times but always managed to fix it before my parents found out.

one of the things I fucked up that I never fixed was somehow I removed the ability to adjust the volume so it was either mute or full blast, and I wanted to have sound when I played Roller Coaster Tycoon so I put like 4 inches of duct tape around my speakers to muffle them

>so I put like 4 inches of duct tape around my speakers to muffle them

LIFEHAX

I used to have to share my older brothers computer, and he would sometimes put a password on before work just to make my life miserable.

So I thought about it for 2 seconds and came up with "take out his hard-drive and replace it with his old hard-drive"


it actually fucking worked to my amazement
jerked off to many titties that day as a victory reward

What a dickhead lol

If I had been an older brother I probably would have been the same way though. My older brother just used his computer to watch Homestarrunner

Somehow after reading this I'm happy I never had any friends.

Having friends was unnecessary when you had a computer pre-2000

>sister comes back from uni
>she had a bunch of floppies
>document.doc.exe
>infects the whole thing up with W32.Estrella
>norton complains
>explorer.exe r virus wat do
>somehow delete is the default
>hit ok
>desktop ui gone
>panic
>pc sent to repair shop

It's unnecesary now too. Even having a gf is unnecesary hahahahha.

Those viruses that hijacked your desktop picture and did who knows whatelse were such a fucking pain in the dick

In a nostalgia thread.

A Sup Forums related nostalgia thread

ikr

>figure out how to create shortcuts
>shortcuts to everything on desktop because fuck the start menu
>delete executables thinking shortcuts are enough
>suddenly desktop filled with white boxes
>I deleted all of my games
>Office and half of windows now unusable
>pc sent to repair shop again

So this thread isn't just memberberries, let's see if we can actually approach something like productivity.

What can we learn from the past of computing which can be brought forward into our time in order to improve it?

I am also guilty of this

>use windows 98
>have trident 9440 pci vga card, shit 2MB VRAM, no 3D
>compaq svga monitor
>wont take 16bit colors for whatever reason, would corrupt the whole screen instead of going blank and blinking it's led
>use 256 colors for the good part of a year
>figure out I can navigate windows with the arrow and tab keys
>decide to enable 16bits colors
>whole screen is now spaghetti
>sense my way to display settings
>somehow set it to 640x480
>screen no longer spaghetti
>turns out the monitor didnt like 800x600@75hz
>800x600 at 70Hz works fine
>colors look absolutely amazing after so much time using 256 colors
>parents dont care because it looks the same to them
>finally able to use two colors on my title bars just like Windows Millenium
>can finally play need for speed 2 and motoracer

No PC technicians could pull that off. I felt so proud of myself.

in otherwords you simply went into display settings and clicked a single button

>No PC technicians could pull that off.

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That sounds like the coolest fucking teacher ever. Somehow I couldn't see a woman teacher doing such a thing which would make you tell the story years later.

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>classmate asks for help
>"plz user help my pc got viruses"
>go take a look
>some random virus setting the wallpaper to nasty porn (nasty as in 56k-tier quality)
>frequent dialogs asking for money to stop the porn storm
>fire up taskmgr, kill processes
>fire up msconfig, figure out and delete weird start-up executables
>things back to normal
>fucker infects his own computer again as soon as he touches it
>he gets grounded for watching porn

Lol. He deserved that.

Technicians would see the spaghetti storm, boot into safe mode, enable 256 color mode, reboot and then charge us big money.

That fucking notepad neofetch

lel what wm is this ?

that's not entirely true, I used a slider/trackbar too. Also I did all this with almost no visual feedback. Pretty good for a retard kid haha

>that XP wireless status icon
Absolutely disgusting

You just ruined this for me by pointing that out

>parents dont care because it looks the same to them
why are old people so ignorant and retarded with technology

At least Windows 2000 is still usable to this day if you mod the OS.

Oh I guess I didnt connect the dots that you couldnt actually see what you were doing

Literally the reason I had to get out of the tech support field. Couldn't take it anymore.

Don't die on me, thread

Okay real talk, if GoG has all of the other tycoon games available why don't they have fucking zoo tycoon yet

Better question, why did Gearbox pull all the Duke Nukem games off GOG?

They're probably planning to release some anniversary pack or some shit and want the profits for themselves. I honestly can't see any other reason.

sounds sweet, my high school just had a shitty typing class with antiquated machines.
had to do all that myself.

I remember using windows 98 up to 2012 with mods such as kernelex and revolutions pack. Pretty sick stuff, those guys were very knowledgeable on Windows 9x and general Microsoft stuff.

Pretty much goes to show how planned obsolescence works: by creating new apis which are just slightly different from the old ones available on old operating systems.

The same guys are now making mods for Windows XP (such as a ported version of the latest Pale Moon).

>can't just make a thread about nostalgia
>has to make it a general
Can you not be so cancerous?

Generals attract more attention, fucko.

We reddit now.

They attract more neo-Sup Forums and "normies", actually Sup Forums tards will keep away from it even when they do see it. Hence the threads are always cancerous as fuck.

Pretty dope teacher. I wonder what he's doing now in this iPad generation.

I had the complete opossite experience with terrible teachers.

>5th grade
>male teacher, about 34
>learn I can change the desktop background just by using the keyboard
>I decide to change the wallpaper by using a wooden stick
>classmates think I'm a leet haxor
>Teacher sees me from a distance
>user WHY WERE YOU HITTING THE KEYBOARD WITH THAT STICK YOU'RE GONNA BREAK IT
>Sent to detention
>Banned from using lab PCs for weeks

>7th grade
>female teacher, about 32
>notice some PCs were opened up
>curious me approaches the table
>gaze at those green and amber 90s era electronics
>teacher notices
>user DONT TOUCH ANYTHING
>slowly leave
>next day at class
>user SOME RAM STICKS ARE MISSING GIVE THEM BACK
>I dont have them
>Threatens to give me bad grades
>I threaten to involve my parents
>she shuts the fuck up
>Uncomfortable going on her class for the rest of the year
>Apparently she got fired
>Never saw her again

Cont.

>10th grade
>female teacher, about 40
>go to labs
>teacher has problems with PC
>she's too busy to fix it
>I offer to help
>"Thanks user!"
>Pentium III shitbox
>at least has 128MBs of RAM and a CD drive
>it had windows 98
>after inspection I suggest to reformat the system drive and install XP
>she agrees
>tell her it's gonna habe to wait cuz I dont habe my installer CDs on me
>she hands me a WinXP setup CD she burned herself
>ok, I guess
>make a backup and install XP (took ages because overused 5400RPM 20GB IDE drive)
>Install drivers
>install office and the usual utilities
>"thanks user"
Fast forward 3 months
>be bored on unrelated class
>teacher storms into classroom
>yells that I ruined her PC
>wtf
>walk up to the computer lab
>XP had locked up
>teacher forgot to activate windows
>I tell her to just activate it
>it was a pirated copy
>I tell her I had no way to know that and it's not my responsibility
>she flips her shit
>literally forces me to "fix" what I "broke"
>No internet
>mobile phones didnt exist
>Locks me inside the lab
>wouldn't let me go
>School time is over, of course she should let me go
>next day she attempts to do the same
>Not this time bitch
>eventually complained my way out of that problem
>find out she had just divorced and was mentally unstable


I wonder how I didnt end up hating computers

>We reddit now.
Visited a few subleddits out of curiousity. Not too different to generals. It's disgusting.

Any decent and lightweight antivirus for XP? I used to advice using Avira Free but it seems to have taken a shit on XP some months ago.

Okay so if you're mad about it then go the fuck away

Jesus user sounds like you really had the time of your life there

Okay so if you're mad about us not liking this general bullshit then go the fuck away.

I'm not mad about it. I don't care. There are tons of generals on every board and they're never going away, so whats the point in being mad about it

It was truly ironic how a gesture of goodwill can get you in trouble.

Now people can fuck off with their tech problems, I dont care unless I get paid.

Yeah it's shitty how people abuse those who actually know what they're doing

>be about 1999
>use windows 95 rig
>explorer.exe crashes on bootup
>not even booting to safe mode helps
>time to reinstall
>this happened regularly

Windows rot was real