Gaming on a 25 YEAR OLD Laptop!!
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"i used to look at pictures"
What kind of pictures linus
what kind
Pixelated ones, probably.
kinda obvious really
peice of shit drawings same question
@@satorugojo5953 👉👌
s k i n t o n e
Yay my gaming laptop is finally getting reviewed
lmao
😂😂
Wow I'm jealous, i mean 100 megahertz? I can't get 12 megahertz
Same bro🤤
hahha😂
You know Brian is a true friend because he remembers the time you told him about your favorite game and loads it up for you.
Specially when said talk apparently never happened hahaha
@@kantdiego Says who?
@@sn0wt1gerBecause Linus mentioned he didn't remember talking about his favorite game
Linus' reaction to the Windows 95 startup sound is one of the best reactions I've seen especially the nostalgic feeling he has about Windows 95.
Teacher: "do you have a laptop ?"
Me: "yes"
Teacher: "ok, download zoom for online classes"
Me:
10:51
Zoom Not Compatible In Your Laptop
So true
@@g4mls facts
@Eystreem wdym
Linus reviewing Razer blade: Yeah this laptop is pretty cool
Linus reviewing 25 year old laptop: HOLY CRAP THS IS AMAZING!!
LMAO
No Shit didnt know
"Old is gold"
Live the life of a retrocollector and you will understand (says the barely nineteen year old woman😂😂😂)
Walid Fakhfakh you are one of the most toxic people I’ve ever seen and that’s saying something. Just shut up and get out.
Suddenly it's 1998 and I'm back in my freshman year at college with my brand new Toshiba laptop (a high school graduation gift) playing Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D in my dorm room. Just a few years later I'd be swapping horrible-sounding, low res MP3's via my Zip drive to be played in Winamp (It really whips the llama's ass!) on a pair of crappy Altec Lansing computer speakers. Ah, simpler times.
This!!!
In 1998 I was 11, our home computer was an IBM Aptiva 95 (I loved that PC) it came with a software bundle including games Caesar II and Pitfall The Mayan Adventure among other programs like Encyclopedia Encarta 96.
Other games I had were the original Command & Conquer, Wolfenstein 3D, Worms, Virtua Fighters and others I don't recall.
By 2001 I got a new PC, a clone tower computer with Windows XP, an upgrade for my gaming and multimedia experience and of course, I downloaded loads of MP3's, my music folder was Nü Metal galore and a lot of Industrial Rock and Grunge, Korn, Limb Bizkit, NiN, Marilyn Manson, The Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Rammstein, you name it.
Good times.
Do you remember using the Internet?
Yeah, the insanely popular "Unknown Album" made by "Unknown Artist"
You actually *can* upgrade that old thing to have WiFi on it. There were PCMCIA WiFi cards available in the early 2000s, which were compatible with any laptop that had PCMCIA slots. I had one.
I remember being so angry I couldn't use both my USB and WiFi cards simultaneously on my Dell laptop at the time...
Yes i had one acer laptop with that slot you could all kinds of attachment on it. Early 2000s
I have one for my Dell Latitude C640
Mom: "You have a laptop already, it still works."
*You know the rest*
"better than your pc"
Nah it's Mom: we got a gaming laptop at home
“Plays The newest games”
"comment here"
*And so do i*
"here's something we haven't seen ina while, a removable battery"
*laughs in thinkpad*
x220 here!
The Thinkpads have had non-removable batteries for a couple generations now sadly. Everything past the T440 has a soldered in CPU and they're even soldering RAM on some models now, including the T-Series.
I've got a T440p myself and love it, but it's not able to run a lot of newer games which sucks. I'm considering just building a desktop rather than shelling out for one of the newer Thinkpads.
Hp pavillion too
Laughs in asus
Thinkpad T430s here
Love your enthusiasm Linus! Thanks for bringing to life some of the genuine excitement of that era in tech. I can still remember how excited I was to get a second-hand CD burner (with a missing faceplate) from my art teacher so I could burn my very first CD of Beatles music that I had dubbed into Sound Recorder from a boombox playing a cassette tape, which in turn was recorded by my dad off the radio from a show celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' arrival in America. Then actually playing that CD in the boombox, thinking I had just pwned the system. Those were the days!
That windows start up jingle is like a double shot of nostalgia right in the arm.
Damn still more ports than MacBook.
Hell there are desktops with fewer ports than that thing.
To be fair can we just admire the fact that older laptops have ports in the back and not on the side. Simple yet effective wire management
:D
Dezmo Bluefire newer laptops are going back to that now, dell, lenovo, hp, etc putting the power and main ports like hdmi on the back while ports like usb c and headphone jacks are on the side
Than most laptops*
Good times. I remember upgrading my PC to a 4GB drive. Was epic.
EposVox I remember upgrading my ibm ps/2 66mhz 486 to a 1.07gb hard drive, it was huge.
hi.
I remember upgrading my video card ram from 1MB to 2MB, I needed it to run 1024 x 768 at 16m color from 800 x 600.
The shop owner just searched the 1MB vram from his drawer, then insert it to my video card, then voila glorious 1024 x 768 @16million colors!
Wow.. You're old.
When we upgraded our first Windows 95 PC to a 4GB hard drive, we partitioned it into 4x1GBish partitions; I think they were formated FAT16 for some reason.
Good times.
I have a laptop like this from 2007 that I haven't touched in over a decade, so recently I got curious if it still worked and Yes it did for a bit, I kept using it to test it occasionally and It was able to run RUclips at 720P and worked with my modern internet....until it didn't. One day it just wouldn't connect and it's been that way ever since. (BTW i still own it tho) RIP old computer 2007- 2022
I’ll take it if you don’t want it
@@tjreckers_shorts I keep it for the nostalgia
HOW DOES IT RUN GAMEZ?!?!!
My 2016 Dell laptop did that recently, grabbed a slimline USB Wi-Fi adapter off Amazon and I was back online
Its probably just faulty Nic card, you could try a wired connection to test it. I have an old Acer 6935g from 2008 and it still works amazingly. It plays 720p videos and can even emulate 3ds and Wii games. It was originally a budget gaming laptop though and could run Modern warfare 2 so that maybe why it still holds up well.
1:25 is the real old laptop experience for me. These old LCDs had very small viewing angles that two people sitting next to each other couldn't see the whole screen.
"one thing I did as a teenager was look at pictures"
-Linus
His parents: "We heard everything"
@Watch Viking lmao
He’s actually called Linus not Linux. I think because he isn’t an operating system.
Yeah the moment he said that I knew he meant nudies. Hell as a kid I was printing a picture to have offline and the God damn printer froze up and wouldn't work... It worked for my mom a couple weeks later though.... Very awkward times. That's the struggles of only having one device that connects to the internet though... In the damn living room at that... Cellphones were a godsend to all kids. Lucky bastard.
@@TheFrogInYourClosetWatchingYou Lol. I can't imagine that struggle when you just want to have a "fun time".
I could not hold onto myself as He said that He knows that skin would Look better like this 😂😂😂😂
The nostalgia from that windows 95 start up sound was so real I got a positive mood boost just from hearing it.
And then the 1602 screen doubled that up again. I loved that game, but I could never figure out how to load soldiers into ships. I suddenly want to play it again.
@@kennethpowers241 you can play the game on your laptop now by setting up a virtual machine. The whole setup will cost you nothing but some time x)
Same! I scrolled back to play it again :)
Because Brian Eno is genius. His collaborations with Windows to make the OS music is really cool to learn about. He made a bunch of 5 second songs.
same and it got better looking at his own satisfaction
16:48
I remember listening to WarCraft 2, Total Annihilation and Dark Reign soundtracks on my Teac Diskman (While walking slowly to stop skips) :D
This video is great, wish you guys did more of them or a series of 'older tech' because a lot of stuff you forget or take-for-granted these days.
Windows 95 OSR2 (4.00.950 B), had USB via support via a small update. But OSR2 itself was never made available to end-users directly and was only sold through OEMs with the purchase of a new PC. I remember that getting a hold of the OEM disk to reformat to a "newer" Win95 was a thing.
1995: HOLY CRAP THIS CD BURNING TECH IS AMAZING
2019: This CD burning takes too long.
2040: What's a CD
Tbh people are already forgetting about cd's lol
meanwhile people on the PS7 and XxX_Xbox_XxX_OneBoxX are still using Optical Discs.
@@proxy1035 those are Blu-ray DVD's tho
@@martiddy let me re-phrase that
@@16krez1 no
Teachers dont forget about cds. They make us burn the video on a cd
Watching this guy get more excited about 25-year-old technology than people got when it was new.
Old technology was made by dreamers. Now everyone plays it safe. There's no charm anymore. I still remember how having a Nokia 9000 Communicator felt like something out of The Matrix. Good times lol. Now it's the same smartphone with improved specs over and over. I'm excited for the Steam Deck tho.
@@TheDorianTube true. Or maybe technology advancement has been in a stall lately, not exactly in a stall because they are still getting better very quickly, more like we get more than enough of what we can use. Back in the day there was so much room for improvement that every few years we got stuff we never dream of. But right now every device cater everything we need and even more we don't feel like anything changes anymore.
He should turn it into a sleeper pc
@@TheDorianTube Things like foldable smartphones these days, which I never thought would exist in a million years but they do. Infact the smartphone itself is something made from dreams.
@@TheDorianTube The problem is that in the 80s and 90s the satanist cabal (Soros, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Astor) were too busy installing dictators in central american, african and south asian countries and didn't care too much about the fledling micro-computer market. But by the mid 2000s and early 2010s they started to factor the tech industry into their "one true way" for EVERYTHING that goes on in society and decided on the exact types and formfactors of technologies that would be allowed, hence why NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO MAKE ANY COMPUTER SYSTEM IN ANY FORM, TYPE OR COLOR NOR ANY OS WITH ANY INTERFACE APPEARANCE OR DEGREE OF APPEARANCE CUSTOMIZABILITY OUTSIDE OF THEIR IMPOSED CANON.
This was wonderful for me to see right now. Coming up on the first anniversary of my mom's death in a couple weeks, and I can still remember when she took me to get my first laptop in 1998 from Circuit City iirc. A Compaq Presario that looked just like this. Thanks for reminding me, that was a wonderful time spent with my mom.
Wow I forgot all about circuit city
It was so much fun watching Windows 95 in action.
My first desktop had a 2GB hard drive, and I literally thought to myself: 2GB?! How am I ever going to use all that? Oh, to be young an naive again.
And now our internet speed is 2-3x quicker
Well the 1st computer I used that is windows xp + 512 mb ram + 99 gb hard drive and the 1st game that played is its either Need for speed ( 1st or old version) and Progect I.G.I 1
That time in India we have only 2G internet facility. So I had to use Internet through Nokia Phones ( not smart phones) through nokia pc suit
@@seucheanemone5652 actually now the whole India is full of youth. Majority of people's ages is between 18-40. Thats why the internet and mobile phones is booming in India. World's all major companies Including Google , Apple , amazon all investing money in India specially for mobile phones. We use 4g now. Hope we get 5g in next year. But in the rural or village or old aged people or poor people still use 2g or 3g. India has 1.5 billion people. So majority of people use 4G. But we can't completely stop 2g or 3g. Even our internet plan comes with Daily 1.5 GB daily 4g + unlimited 2G ( after the 100%
Use of 4g data + 100 sms daily + unlimited call daily to anyone ( with in in india Landline or mobile) + access to all premium apps for free . But the best thing is in the 2G or 3G era we paid for call , sms , internet , apps . And the prise was too high. I can remind 1gb 3g pack cost 300 rupees = 3.38 Euro for 28 days validity. But now we give money for internet only. Other services are free. And the lowest internet pack that is 1.5gb daily costs 5 rupees for a day which is equal to 0.056 EURO. Hope Germany will get 4G and 5G soon. Tell me the price of telecom services in Germany or how telecom operators looting you ? By the way Germany is my favourite nation in Rise of Nation Game ( its a pc offline game like age of empires , clash of clans)
Happy Independence day
Imagine how people will react to our inferior computers 25 years from now
How you guys had computers OUTSIDE of your brain implant?
Brain implant? Oh you mean neurocans, you're funny grandpa!
@@Toxodos Wait Your brain is made out flesh?
rageface memeaholic no its made of capn crunch
240 FPS 1080p? That’s your best? 1130 FPS is the worst ours can do in 16k
I was given a CompaQ Armada a while back and it was fascinating. It actually helped me out as it bridged the gap between floppy and USB, which unlocked downloading DOS games for my 3.1 PC.
Unfortunately I don't have the time or space to play with any of it these days but it's all still there.
Well, even if you don't have the time or space, there's DOS Box, and Virtual PC (Virtual Box), that can be downloaded and run from your current OS. You can load older OSes on that, or just use DOS Box, and use one machine for all that vintage gaming you might want to do. Hope this helped, even a little. :)
I love this video, are there more where Linus plays more childhood favorites?
"I preinstalled your favorite game in there"
Linus: *ignores it and plays Liero*
To be fair he did play it at the end, probably just wanted to finish testing everything he could before playing it.
I mean, I'd also go straight for the spiritual predecessor to Noita.
This looks lik "Worm"
I was hoping it would be Hello Kitty or a Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen game
gotomoka.blogspot.com/2022/09/acer-aspire-5-a515-56-32dk-slim-laptop.html
I had a Gateway laptop like that. I thought it was awesome! It was the first and last laptop I've ever had. I only use desktops and tablets now. My wife still uses laptops. I loved Windows 95 and 98. Was great for running DOS games. Was a major upgrade from my 486 desktop PC. It was a fun to remove the ball from the mouse as a prank on friends. I hate how thin new laptops are. These thick laptops stayed cool, had great keyboards, lots of ports, drives, etc as you see. New laptops have so little to them hardware wise. Yep. Took a while to burn cds then. If you ripped and burned a music cd to a blank cd, it took as long to burn as it took to listen to the music cd. I played a lot of Seven Kingdoms on my laptop.
Yeah, I prefer laptops to be thick enough to be used as tank armor, and heavy enough to give someone a concussion. I want it to be able to survive a mace.
Thin laptops are pretty cool
You still have thicker ones now, it is still a trade off between thinnest and most performing; with the most expensive having thicker keyboards, without that mcuh ghosting . Travel time is a present e issue
Ultra books have quite a lot going on
Expansion wise, you generally connecting something up, or add on the inside. like an external drive or an external GPU, either directly or with a dock
I used to play golf on dos. I think it was Sawgrass. I remember loading around 10 floppy discs. lol
I really like the design of this thing; if you look at the bottom it appears as if its completely modular. That is really really good, im not sure it would work with anything simi ok nowadays because connectors and things like that but if that were on something modern that would be pretty sick as it would be completely upgradable, remember that modular laptop vid they did a while ago imagine that but 10 times better as you wouldnt need to take it apart to upgrade its internal components.
On the next episode of LTT, installing windows 98 on $3000 PC
dont give them any ideas lmao
@@TheXeno333 Pls do it :P
this is not lgr
you meant Windows 95 or Windows 3.1
You probably can do that if you use those VESA drivers.
But you can forget about sound or 3D acceleration.
Meanwhile Linus the next 25 years:
"Look at this so called Modern Computers, it has disgusting 512GB of SDD, and a 8GB of DDR4!"
*ssd
can't wait for those 1TB ram sticks bro
ssd*
@@PrismGenesis So this system is gonna be the bog standard $800 budget. It's running 2TB of DDR7 in quad-channel (4x 512GB), so you're not gonna be doing serious video editing for even your regular 32k movies. It's got a 64-core, 9.6 GHz CPU from industry newcomer Aspira from their Aether range of mid-level, bang-for-your-buck CPUs...
I could go on making random stuff up, but yeah...fun to do for a bit.
@@HaydenX ...the Vision Feeling and Smell Processing Unit (VFSPU) is of course made by industry leader Nvidia and is the cheapest unit that still features the brand new Raytracing 5.0 technology, along with 500 additional smells, and 700,000 more nerve ending simulators, for a much more immersive gaming experience. The Direct to Brain (DTB) helmet is from the new upstarts at Accurate Interfaces, and features 900,000 points of contact and space foam padding to ensure comfort and to create less sensory intrusion for even the most vigorous of games.
I must have an old Win98 laptop somewhere that was given to me about 15 years ago. They thought it was still very usable then lol! I borrowed a laptop in '97 from my intern workplace for a day. It was a similar compaq affair with very slow dstn display. It came with Age of Empires 1 preinstalled, it was a nice game.
My first laptop I bought was from 2004 or 5 and still works, it even runs Windows 7! I played a lot of Diablo 2 on it. It's very slow though with 2GB of memory. After that I got laptops from work and never had to buy one again (I was a network administrator so old hardware came by often). I should still have a dual core from 2011 somewhere. Good stuff!
i actually really like how that big chonky laptop looks, it reminds me of something i'd see in an older anime since this is the kind of stuff they'd have at the time
“I used it too look at pictures”
Awkward silence
Moves onto a picture and talks about skin tone
We've all been there lol
Glad I wasn't the only guy to notice that.
My wife often found the pictures I'd saved to diskettes
It was hard not to look at pictures while browsing the internet, popups were common and there was no pop up control till some time later, I remember talking to a fellow technician over the phone and discussing it, I said this one nude keeps popping up, he described the woman correctly, so every Christian browsing online would have seen the same thing, my wife hated me being online as she was in a cult, IT was my employment, so I had no choice.
@@johnussss your wife was in a cult?
Thumbnail: windows 98
Computer: windows 95
Nice one chaps
25 years ago was before windows 95 was even out
@@simonwilson7581 Thanks for that in depth play by play.
@@simonwilson7581 And yet here you are watching and commenting...
@@simonwilson7581 I suppose your content is better. I'll take a look.
There are so many mistakes and untruths in this video that I had to dislike.
I liked very much the keyboards on those old laptops. Also so many sockets and ports you just knew you are buying something well thought through that's gonna be all purpose.
Incredibly cool, I still have the 1602 A.D. disk lying around at home. Just a bit sad that the filming of the screen was not really good. They should have definitely adjusted exposure significantly for those shots, maybe even have a steady camera only capturing the screen.
"One thing I've used my old Windows 95 laptop for is looking at pictures"
We all did... the kind of pictures you didn't want your parents to find on your computer.
so true
I still do that today
I like the vr kind
@@goldyloccz382 Man Of Culture
all the viruses i got but it was worth it
4GB HDD wow, in 1994 I started with 40MB HDD (2nd-hand PC) :P
Brand new computers in 1994 had typically 600MB - 1.2GB HDDs, for what it's worth
@brosif29 In 1994??? Did you own a cluster of servers at that time? 😆
Ha, You atleast had one, but people like me still don't have one till now.
@brosif29 my school still uses those PC's...
Its not possible cose device memory would take more than 50mb if dosent mean how old
16:55 Takes me back -As a silly kid I placed my Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II CDROM into my CD/Casette music box. Much to my surprise and delight, it began playing the soundtrack to the game!
I found out I could listen to some of the Star Wars soundtrack without purchasing the music in particular. :)
I had this laptop as a kid. A really cool feature is that the floppy disk drive could be swapped out for an extra battery. And it ran roller coaster tycoon pretty well!
Windows 95C had USB. We used to call it "Plug and pray"
"Plug & Pray" was also called for the automatic configuration of addon cards, not just USB. Back in the days when free IRQs, DMAs et cetera could be counted with your fingers.
@@sleeptyper true, lol. IRQ config was kinda fun though, at least there you knew it will work afterwards xD
You guys are making me feel nostalgic. Now I miss my Gateway and Compaq computers from back then.
My first PC was IBM Aptiva "pizzabox", 486SX/33 with whopping 4MB of RAM and 270MB HDD. Mom bought me 8MB RAM comb for good school success. I bought 512kB videoram chip, doubling it's videoram, lol. Having Gpu in Vesa-bus, it played some games faster than friend's 486DX2/66, which used ISA for Gpu.
Plug and Play? Or are you doing a funny joke?
linus be like: "burning cds is soooo old and makes me nostalgic"
me, who still burns them to listen to good music in our family's car
Time for a Bluetooth FM transmitter.
@@joeythefoxxo fm transmitters are spotty at best in my experience. But cars used to have modular stereos, and there's lots of great options now to replace the control module with new ones that have apple carplay and android auto.
Seriously most millennials and zoomers would save so much money buying a used car and changing out the radio unit for a few hundred bucks.
@@derpcon4212 I agree with you. Trust me I have a decked out system in my 2000 Chevy Impala. Full stereo overhaul, subwoofer, and an Apple CarPlay head unit. But with that comes a pretty hefty price tag upfront. My head unit alone was $350. Compare that to a decent fm transmitter for $20-$50. While I much prefer a wired connection, to some people there just isn’t the need for such an upgrade.
@@joeythefoxxo "head unit" shit that's the name lmao. It's still the morning and my brain hasn't woken up completely 🤣
And I agree with you about the cost. Tbh tho on my old car I just burned a buncha CDs like the OP talked about. Gave me less fuss than FM transmitters and the inconvenience wasn't as bad as it sounds
@@derpcon4212 I can see it working well for some, but I listen to a LOT of music. I mean I go through playlists everyday. I used to use discs but I got tired of the same music playing over and over. I burned whole albums on these CD’s too lol. I’m so much happier being able to change the music to whatever I want whenever I want.
I feel bad with my technological privilege cause I can just hear my parents saying “back in my day you had to rewind the cassettes and you only had 10 songs each”.
Yes. The IR ports were used for a handful of years, and they did do data transfer albeit slowly.
"It has an internal power supply!"
Yea! Look how thick it is!!!
_this may cause your computer to run more slowly_
Linus: *"Isn't that great!"* Ah the good ole days :')
Sounds like something my granddad would say. He boomer
"One thing I liked to do when I was a teenager was look at pictures"
*goes on to talk about how badly the display handles skin tone*
I understand linus, I understand.
Bahahahahahah. *snap*
Yellow fever
😂
What kind of pictures?
What can I say, Linus has good taste in women
USB came in with Win95B. And yes, I remember off the top of my head, I didn't look it up....🙂
I still have Win95 era TI Travelmate Pentium MMX 150's, they were TERRIFIC in their day. They also had infrared, which I seldom used for file transfer, but for synching and installing software to various Windows CE handheld PC's.
When I wasn't walking uphill both ways to school and back, through the snow and sleet...😬😬😬
That start up sound pulled on my heart strings lol
1999 i got sent to the principles office because i got my hands on my first CD-R 4x Creative drive and i was selling copies of Starcraft of $5
Lol
Haha me too
Lmfao contraband
Your school are Communist
1987 i got sent to the principles office because i hacked the main pc of the school and saw files i shouldnt have seen lmfao back in the day when security was nil.. and this was from a classroom on either a bbc or a mac
*has headphone jack*
me: "thats better than modern iphones"
yea my phone doesnt have one
but who cares about that when there is bluetooth.... honestly wireless headphones/earphones are soo much better
ps: fk wires
@@ewanjb99 wait im confused do you hate wires or not
@@xXRagingShadowXx12345 i dont hate them as they're useful in certain situations which require speed and accuracy/constancy. However, when it comes headphones and earphones wireless is so much better. making the audio jack obsolete...
@@ewanjb99 ah yes let me spend hundreds on something i can easily lose then spend hundreds more to get a second one and hundreds more again to replace it when i lose it, fine tactics good sir. i can agree about wireless headphones tho because they are much harder to lose and dont need a wire.
pretty cool seeing backwards in time like this my oldest gaming experience was that mine game and solitaire built into my moms school laptop in like 2009 and ford racing 3 on the original xbox in like 2005
That IR port is actually quite convenient for short distance file transfers. IIRC Windows 9x had a feature to easily transfer files between computers equipped with those, and transfer speeds weren't so bad. I used it to transfer drivers and whatnot to a half-broken Compaq LTE that lacked any sort of removable drives with a dead serial port.
Ok, but where is the 1602 AD Let's Play by linus? This is a dead serious comment. I'd love to see him play without a bunch of edits (e.g. 10 minute video) :)
I agree! He says he used to be good in certain games...WE WANT GAMING LINUS! (With james or luke judging him as he plays)
I would really like to watch it
10/10 Would watch this and more linus 95 Let's plays!
i still like 1404 more, but i would be down for that.
a linus 1602 A.D. Let's Play would be glorious.
Aye, a livestream would be kinda fun.
God, I love how...genuinely excited he gets while going over the laptop. You don't really see that much on youtube these days, it's actually a little refreshing
Dude....i love seeing retro technology on youtube (really makes me appreciate and praise how we advanced to today)
Another kid younger than Minecraft players adding 'genuine to their comment to feel better and get likes from other low iq viewers.
@@eavyeavy2864 gonna cry?
@@listentocky1 advanced? man my tech sucks
Chunky laptop... definitely...
beautiful. My first gaming experience was in 1997-99 where I was fortuante enough to have a laptop (with a literal ball as the touchpad)
Played Doom and GTA - as well as jazz jackrabbit. I was probably 8 or something. Literally, Internet developing etc. been my whole life.
Man this makes me feel old, I’m happy to know a video like this Existed
I love seeing how excited Linus gets in these nostalgia episodes. It's like his inner child is attempting to escape
do we all get excited? it is always pretty fun to visit childhood memories when life was easier and there was no stress, every day fun and joy. Try it yourself it's pretty fun and relaxing to visit those memories, you can use smell, sound and skill memories to bring back some of what you have allready forgotten. Those memories doesn't delete, they are always there even tho there are not in your longterm memory anymore, it cleans itself while you sleep so it doesn't get slow over time.
12:18
linus back in 2000: i am burning a cd i am super suprised
Linus 2019: i am burning a cd i am super suprised
@@anitheremil8822 thnx i guess
@@anitheremil8822 my native language is dutch, as long as i speak it correctly i am happy
@@architect_kev266 mijn ook
Hoi! wat voor feestje is hier gaande?
yall are enjoying stuff i wish i had when i was young. really cool
We lived like savages.
cleaning mouse balls was madding
@@blackknightdavesgarage6918 Remember the little velcro-ball cleaners?
nostalgia ... and general feeling old sentiments all around
The lack of multi tasking actually made me switch back to console gaming for years. Programs running in the background causing stutters. After a while I preferred using my PS2 to my gaming pc. Both were on CRT's so no input lag and games physics were linked to the fps so many ran at 25, 30, 50 or 60 fps anyway regardless of platform. PC games did have a higher resolution but that doesn't matter that much in how much fun you have.
I bet to differ, we wern't staring at phones all day and we knew there was just 2 genders and hated socialism
school district: "I'LL TAKE IT!!!!"
Scott Riehm lol
Everyone: oh i've seen this one. its a classic
Schools: What do you mean, its brand new
Evurgreen With your profile picture, I’ma guess that kid was you. 👌
You can disassemble those old TFT display panels and replace the dead florescent lamps in them. I used to do that back in the days with the Satellite and Tecra line at my first IT job before we switched to Dell and LED backlights became standard.
Wow, reminds me of my dad's computer. He put DooM and Hexen and AoE1 on his PC. Also got AOL 56k internet with the banner like NetZeros and introduced me to the AOL chatrooms back then. People were much more friendlier as doing all that online stuff was very much new to everyone, those were good times. He then passed the PC on to me and I upgraded it with a Geforce 4200 Ti and replaced the OS with Windows XP so I could play Counter Strike, Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3. Boy how time flies as you're a kid...
"This computer is older than the people working here." Damn, do I feel old.
And we are likely older than Linus himself :P
And here I am remembering when I bought one...
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Same lol
Lol I am 19 now but, that's crazy how old technology used to look like. First time seeing this lol.
That Windows 95 loading chime brought on some major nostalgia.
I had visions of floppies with super fast access writes and 1.68 MB of space instead of 1.44...
I feel like playing Command & Conquer all of a sudden
They should bring back that old chime to Windows 10 as an option! Or even better: I can just make Cinnamon (Linux Mint) play it when I log in!
YES
@@wandererstraining I'm pretty sure you can
I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet but win95 did support USB, early revisions didn't support it out-of-the-box but it could be added relatively easily. one of the major selling points of windows 98 was native support for USB and (a small list of) USB PnP devices.
Gosh, this gives me so many memories, from the menu organization to even on waiting 5 minutes for a page to load on AOL. First computer I remember using was running Windows 98, which also happens to be the year I was born. 3-1/2" floppy disks, CD-ROM games, big, bulky printer port connections, SVGA CRT monitors, pressing all the arrow keys to hear beeps, etc. We still have floppy drives laying around, and a sh!tload of AOL update installation CDs in a box. Yes, for 3rd-party software (especially internet-related software, as you actually had to sign in to your email to even USE the internet), if there was an update, you had to buy a new CD to update the software. Very rarely did they have online updates, and if they did, it was never guaranteed to load the whole update as it could potentially drop an important file, and if that happened, you had to uninstall the software (which took a minute to do unlike today), and re-download and install it.
Among unrelated technology this brings to mind: film cameras, VHS tapes (and the corresponding VCR players), cassette tapes and players, cell phones that only let you call, and PDA's
14:56 Linus: Something I used my laptop for when I was a teenager was... *looking at pictures..*
Me: Hmmmmm...
Uummmmm *looks around nervously*
Wait that’s illegal
2:23 change da world my final message. Goodb ye
Change da world 🌍
Change the world.
Figured I’d see a few of these 💀
Gen z is a mindfuckfest
@@cupuacu4life13 ?
I remember lining up two laptops with the IR ports to game wirelessly with each other (sitting across from each other)
haha! That was a blast from the past! I remember in 1985 having to play in "green screen" and then, in about 1992-3 Australia, being so excited when I could play Eye of the Beholder, Test Drive (predecessor to NFS) and Stunt Driver (not sure of exact date...) in 256 colour. Sooooooooooo many disks and even cassettes. Life was slower then, but there was something about the tactile nature of it.
change da world
my final message
goodb ye
2:23
no wonder it sounded familiar
Well noticed friend
I never noticed it made that noice before
Enough with this shit stain spam
it sounds like a GB ngl
3:50 "It gives you an appreciation for modern grid arrangements and everything snapping into place"
*cries in macOS*
I've never used macOS before, does it not snap the icons into a grid?
@@coolfred9083 We had a few Macs in our school. You could put icons on top of each other if you wanted. It is whack
@@timbrown3666 Seriously? One of my friends just got a macbook I'm going to have to have a look
Fun fact: newer versions of PCMCIA were basically PCI in a smaller form factor. You could probably hook up an eGPU Voodoo to a laptop that way.
Damn, that's all in all very similar to my dad's first work laptop. What a trip down memory lane, lots of childhood hours spent on that thing and its successors!
14:55 *looking at pictures, eh? ;)*
-not exposed-
14.4k 144p pr0n.
The real problem was that the keyboard got sticky.
@@LTXwooshie lmaooooo
16:23 Apparently skin tones were much better on 16 bit ;)
“And it’s called liero”
Please excuse me for a second, the nostalgia hit me so hard I fell out of my chair.
I'm 13 and I've played that ngl its kinda a banger of a game
Same here. My cousin and I used to share a keyboard to play each other. Loved it.
I remember upgrading from Win 3.11 to Windows 95 and 95 seemed so modern, so shiny in comparison, they even had the Rolling Stones at the Launch party "start me up" of course the song would be over by the time it had actually started up.
In 96 i would have been downloading MP3's (yep they existed) at Uni , putting them onto a 100MB Zip Drive, and bringing them home. Thankfully some of the Uni's PC's had Zip drives attached, it was the future.
Anyone remember Warez sites
Windows 95 startup jingle gives me goosebumps and makes me happy
So another thing I used to do when I was a teenager was looking at pictures😏
And skin tones were important for some reason 🤔
*"Uhhhhhh"*
Frantisek Janak hm
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Loading a porno with 144p and terrible sound quality.
"I haven't heard that sound in so long."
Welcome to memory lane. Please walk with me as we reminisce of technology of yester-year. When RAM capacities measured in MB and floppy disks were the norm.
Tristen Zavala I musta miscalculated because my RAM’s about 512kb. Still using floppies, though.
@@first-last557 What sort of flippin' system are you using brother?
@@retrobit5973 Upgraded Tandy 1000HX
@@first-last557 Never heard of that...
EDIT:- I found out and realised what you meant.
Rest assured nasa was the last to use 8inch floppies.
Watching Linus pick this laptop up and shake it had me in fear for that poor Hard Drives life.
When Linus mentioned data transfer via Infrared I remembered me and some friends sharing slipknot, mudvayne, Nightwish and some other bands songs with each other in the early 2000s that way. It sometimes took up to half an hour for one song. This was between phones.... I think mine was one of those orange and white Sony Walkman. Ah, the nostalgia!!!
4 Gigabyte was a big hard drive for the time. My first computer had a 20 Megabyte drive!
And still I have been told those were very expansive.
my first computer had dual 5.25" drives with no hard drive haha... it played Risk tho!
my first computer had an 80GB drive, because it was a hand me down pentium 3 machine that my dad built
My first computer had a tape deck
Sean C. Definitely this was upgraded, my first computers had cartridges and tapes but my first HD was also 20 megs but only 10 where recognized and it was far enough, with DOS you had enough on a floppy to put the OS and 5 games, a 5 1/4 floppy
There’s just something beautiful about the datedness of these windows computer systems. Probably it’s how immersive they felt especially when I was younger, despite their comparatively low grade performance and hardware and software. My family would use these till their end of life, which is how you continue to appreciate them for what they’re worth
When you sat down at a computer it felt more productive, it was less distracting and fewer activities to passively waste your time.
@@SerterSerter Instead you had to waste time to install everything on it because a mouse needed drivers and two resets for them to work. But there was a lot to customize, nowadays Windows doesn't even remember folder layout and doesn't have any themes. It took time to make evything work properly and in the end was more apreciated and cared for.
@@draconpost i mean everything still needs drivers, they're just either automatically downloaded or the device will just default to general HID drivers
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4 gigs is amazing. My first computer at the age of 10 was a full size IBM with 129mb hard drive.
that boot up sounds tho. tingles the synapses
Remember that kid who used to brag about the PC that his uncle gifted him? That's him now. Feel old yet?
Who else remember playing Space pinball and Spider Solitaire??
Carmageddon
I still play pinball on my windows xp pc
Yes
YES!!!!
I have the pinball game on my game drive.
God Bless the inventor of the optical sensor, that white ball gave me conniptions back in the day.
This brings back memories, as a kid I had an old windows 98 thinkpad laptop in the xp/early vista days since my dad bought it for cheap and gave it to me to play with like a 100 classic games pre-installed like prince of persia, civilization, Space invaders, worms, lemmings And stuff like that. I'm born in 1997 so this allowed me to experience classic games that came before my time and made me appreciate them.
Back when laptops had vertically mounted fans
IIRC it wasn’t until the early to mid 2000s when they started horizontally mounting fans because the vertical fans couldn’t keep the newer processors cool enough.
I never knew that was a thing
@@darknes4150 I'm sure the comment was tongue-in-cheek. Vertically mounted laptop fans - because it was so thick! LoLLLL!
They aren't "Vertically mounted fans" or horizontal fans... Newer laptops than that used squirrel cage fans, which fits into a smaller profile BUT also make more noise per CFM but they also had stronger static pressure.
Before that normal fans would be used because it was thick enough to do that
@@DLTX1007 Squirrel Cage?
Lol, never heard of that...
Centrifugal Fans though, that's the proper name you're looking for.
14:59 When you were a teenager you used your laptop to look at pictures. I bet you did. And then you bring up an example
The best startup sound of any windows. Wish I could get that back
that windows 95 boot up bounds is so nostalgic for me you have no idea
Split-screen multiplayer game 😭
The nostalgia is real
I live in a third world country, so i played with an original xbox like monthly in 2013 with my cousin. I have played original ps and ps2 games and i just wanna say for FUCKS SAKE BRING SPLIT SCREEN MULTIPLAYER BACK I WANNA PLAY HALO STORY MODE WITH MY LITTLE COUSIN JUST LIKE MY OLDER COUSIN DID WITH ME!!!
@@qugaming6535 Halo Infinite has confirmed split screen
@@seanathonhooper Time to kick some alien ass with my cousins in the new years eve party
How bout a sleeper laptop? Modern parts in an old laptop would be cool to see.
Would be nice but wouldn't happen
You could fit an entire itx System in this
@@chrishansen7004 why not?
Would take a lot of work, those old laptops weren't designed to be friendly to work in. Doable though.
J M Probably can easily fit a 2080Ti and cool it properly even when over clocked. Then you can fit paralleled batteries for all day gaming on the go.