Damn did we all have the exact same childhood? Didn't help these old computers were loud as fuck. The loud clack when the mechanical button finally engages. The loud fan kicking on. The weird clicking of the hard drive. I swear thr CRTs also made a hissing noise that seemed even louder at night.
In 2005 when i first got internet at our home it was already on cable. But i remember in the early 2000's i went to a friend and we were playing Mu Online on an dialup connection. Imagine that, given the context all i knew in my gaming universe was a Gameboy from the 90's.
Ten komp ma dysk 1000razy wolniejszy i procek z 300razy wolniejszy plus ramu śmiesznie mało i startuje w 40 sekund.. A ty się cieszysz czlowieku że tysiące razy szybszy sprzęt uruchamia win10 w 30 sekund. Ha to tylko okazuje jakie dziadowskie oprogramowanie mamy..
this was my teen years. I had Cyrix 686 instead with Voodoo Banshee. 90's were the golden years of PC gaming. You had to be there to know what it was like.
U mnie w pierwszej dekadzie XXI wieku: - Duron 1200 - GeForce 2 MX - 128 MB RAM - 40 GB HDD - Win 98 SE - Flatron F700B - klawa Tracera, głośniczki Geniusa Nie pamiętam płyty głównej, ale zdaje się, że jakiś Biostar
I don't care how crazy it sounds I miss them sounds. Yeah everything is faster now more stream line..but them sounds and that era on the Internet will always hold a place with me
You can do that with a custom PC. Buy a +2000rpm 3-pin fan (or fix the fan speed to 100%), buy a beep speaker, and let the good time roll... you'll even get the windows chime. I don't know what these other guys are talking about. With a fresh Windows 10 install and an NVMe drive, I can fully boot into Windows in 15 seconds. It's the P.O.S.T. that might take some time but that depends on the motherboard and how the BIOS/UEFI if configured. If you have a bloated OEM system, with a HDD, a million things plugged into the I/O, and a slow processor then it will take some time to boot. Each peripheral that's plugged in will make the POST take longer.
lucky you, i bought a 1 ghz pentium 3 processor for about 30 dollars on eBay in 2006, we got rid of that, now to get the same processor, its over 250 dollars. im stuck with a crappy 450 mhz pentium 3
@@judenihal I got my first PC as a hand me down in 2006. It has a Celeron 333MHz (Mendocino) which probably would have been pretty cheap to upgrade to a Pentium 3 back in the day. Tbh the Diamond Micronics C400 seems to only support up to Katmai and to upgrade it to Coppermine would require a larger BIOS ROM chip and BIOS from BCM QS440BX (which is an identical board but had a version with a 2Mbit ROM). I have seen that someone on vogons managed to get 1.4GHz Tualatin Celeron working on the Diamond Micronics C400 but that not only required the larger ROM chip but also a modded BIOS, Tualatin compatible slotket, and of course the Tualatin Celeron. I would have loved to have something like that in 2006, or even just a lower end Coppermine would have been a huge upgrade from the 333MHz Mendocino
Coś pięknego, mega sprzęt, jakoś w 2001 roku miałem P3 500 Mhz, 64 mb ramu i geforce 2 mx, Win 98 oczywiście :) Mam sentyment do takich, starych sprzętow :)
@@hamasz ah kurcze jednak pare lat starszy i moje poczatki to nawet nie windows95 a nawet przed windows3.1. pare lat roznicy i 128mb ram i procek 1,1ghz to jak miecz swietlny Jedi, przy moim MC68020/14mhz albo Celeron300A z malezji ktory chodzil bez bolu na 450mhz na dobrej plycie, albo AMD Durony ktore mozna bylo olowkiem :D overclocka robic. piekne czasy. Pozdrawiam
i remember it made everything look smaller, but applications required you to change it from 640x480 to 800x600 at the time i didnt understand what that meant, i was young!
Great startup video. Love that you made sure the speakers and monitor were warmed up first before starting the computer. Thats how I used to start up as a kid. Made sure I can see and hear the windows startup.
Wrong, all early operating systems sucked, windows 98, 98SE and ME included, because they were built on old technology, making these operating systems slow, very buggy, and VERY insecure! Microsoft developed Windows NT, built from the ground up, targeted at businesses, where reliability, speed and above all security were in high demand. Windows NT, was followed up by Windows 2000, and Windows XP... these were the 2 first Windows operating systems targeted at home users that were built with the superior NT technology.
Those early Windows operating system were slow, insecure and buggy and you call that an amazing time? Windows NT 4 in those days was light years ahead of that crappy Windows 98.
That startup sound is gold in my book and brings back so many memories. I am hoping when I transition to the afterlife I hear that sound as I awake in Heaven.
I still remember Windows 98 being the first PC machine I decided I could live with. I was on a Mac System 7.6 at the time and when it died I inherited a W98 machine and stuck with it.
Man that's so nice, even the cheapest speakers were shielded back then. Now I can't put any speakers near my CRT because it warps the picture because of the magnetic fields :(
they were weak, if you put them right against it it might have warped them, plus that magnet werent that big so the space in between pc edge didnt make them warp or you just didnt put them right next to one another
I still have an unopened copy of Windows 98. Ran Win-98 on my 486 DX-66 (66 Mhz 80486 processor) in 1999. I later upgraded it in 2000 with a new motherboard and Pentium 233 mhz processor for Frys Electronics. Also upped it from a 500MB hard drive to a 2 GB one for US$79.
That's modern technology... others like me started with a 4.7 Mhz processor, 250KB ram, and a single 5 1/2" floppy drive as mass storage, while look at a monochrome monitor.
@@monza8844 My first PC was a VIC-20 in 1982, with 3.5kb of ram and a 1mhz 6502 processor, with a cassette deck for storage. And accessory cartridge bumped it up to a massive 16kb. Learned to program in BASIC with it. A year later I gave it to a family member and bought a use Apple ][e with a whopping 64kb of RAM and 2 floppy drives. I still have a number of slot cards for one like a Grappler+ printer interface card stashed away. The oldest PC I ever used was a 386 DX-33 "Turbo" at work. Funny how they put the catch-word TURBO on everything back then. Even the Viper spaceships in Battlestar Galactica had turbo buttons on their control sticks ;-)
@@branislavmilosevic4289 Windows 98 was already outdated when it was released, an OS that was still running on top of the old DOS. That lead to a very buggy, slow, and above all very insecure OS! I'm not an Apple fan, but I do know that their operating system in 1998 was vastly superior to Windows 98; it was faster, way more reliable, far more secure, and just overall better designed, and also looked modern. In the late 80's companies wanted a more robust Windows OS, one that was faster, more reliable, and above all secure! Microsoft then decided to build Windows from the ground up, and Windows NT was born in 1993. Windows NT evolved into Windows 2000, and it was a sign of things to come when Microsoft stated that Windows ME would be their last Windows version built on the old technology. Every OS released after Windows ME is build on the foundation of Windows NT. I've been working in the IT since '87. 1998 was the year I met my wife (living far away from me, across the ocean), so the computers we used to communicate online are still fresh in my memory, as also the OS we used, and all of that on top of my experiences with late 90's hardware and Windows 98. The computers in those days were not impressive at all...period. The fact that that hardware was outdated in no time was a sad reminder. In the years Intel started to release the (in those days) shockingly fast Core2Duo and Core2Quad CPU's (that almost killed AMD), that's when we started to see not just a huge boost in performance, but also reliability, security and innovation. Computer hardware nowadays is far more reliable, and ages much better. A lot of people are still using 6-8 year old systems that still feel more than enough for most people's needs. That was not the case in 1998... not even close. There is nothing great about 1998. You call it sweet dreams, I call it hassle, disappointing performance, and a security hell. I just dealt with it as best I could at work, because there was nothing better, until we we switched from IBM main frames to Windows NT 4 clients and servers. And look at it today! I got NVME drives running at 7200 read and write speed, I boot into Windows in 5 seconds. I have a flash drive thumb drive that can carry 256GB of data, and transfer at speed of almost 1GB/sec. I could get a 1TB model for only $68. Think about that for once... in those days we had to buy a Windows 98 CDROM, now we can put every Windows OS ever made on a thumb drive, and we're still not using more than 50GB on our 1TB flash drive. Unlike the late 90's, I'm not running out of storage anymore on my system either, hard drives storage is cheap, and RAM too. Look around you, many people have done just fine with 16GB of RAM for almost 10 years. You have just forgotten what kind of drama everything was in the late 90's. I can now run multiple operating systems inside a virtual machines with ease! There are far less limits in this day and age, in the old days we were far too limited because of the hardware, OS or costs. In this day and age we can build anything we want, the amount of different parts we can buy is almost unlimited. There was nothing "sweet dreams" about "AMD K6-2 400mhz , S3 Trio 64V+ 2MB, 32MB RAM, 2GB HDD, Windows 98 in 1998"... nothing. A 2GB hard drive didn't even have room for 400 MPs of 5MB each, and even less if we take into account the storage needed for OS, applications and other data. Nowadays you can often store over a half a million MP3's. And that S3 Trio 64V+ 2MB didn't get you very far, often in 2 years you would have to get a new GPU, but not anymore in modern days. Heck, in some cases we actually double our FPS with technologies like Nvidia DLSS. No, there was nothing "sweet dreams" about computers in 1998... lacking performance, lacking ram, lacking storage, lacking speed, lacking reliability, lacking security, etc. Heck, printers were still sold with parallel cables, and serial ports were still a thing. No thanks! ha!
People still watching this video 😮
same
We sure do lol
ASMR.
Watching old computers start up is porn for computer nerds. 😉
of course
That startup sound ❤🔥
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My Windows Xp retro computer I changed it to sound and look like windows 98
add to phone as message sound :)
Ikr?
Half life, Quake, Winamp... Truly the epitome of late 90s and 2000s
Winamp use now, Quake too
@@oxygen6613 I play OG doom. But you gotta admit that back then, that was the ultimate cool stuff
WinAmp it really kicks the lama's ass.
@@nocturneuh whips*
@@oxygen6613 Every year i start up quake 1 and doom 1&2 and complete the game at least once.
Me trying to turn my computer on at 2am without my parents hearing.
Or connecting to the internet at 7am on a brisk Saturday morning completely forgetting about that bloody screaming dial up box
Damn did we all have the exact same childhood? Didn't help these old computers were loud as fuck. The loud clack when the mechanical button finally engages. The loud fan kicking on. The weird clicking of the hard drive. I swear thr CRTs also made a hissing noise that seemed even louder at night.
@@Null-o7j
To think my modern build is quiet as a mouse compared to that.
The only thing that might ever get someone's attention is the RGB lol.
Жиза самая жизненная) один раз я спалился, колонки были включены и как заорёт приветствие, ух, винда 98, было время
In 2005 when i first got internet at our home it was already on cable.
But i remember in the early 2000's i went to a friend and we were playing Mu Online on an dialup connection. Imagine that, given the context all i knew in my gaming universe was a Gameboy from the 90's.
The speaker system 😍
The good Times
that can detect incoming calls lol :D
@@MrDome110 😂😂😂 tadadat tadadat tadadat...
1.1 GHZ, man that was a beast for win 98 🥶
I run mine on 166 MHz.
I still have my 900mhz Athlon with 256mb of ram
Yeah I’m still watching .. long lost memories of those forgotten days since childhood ❤❤❤
Dziękuje, że przypomniałeś nam, jakie to były piękne czasy :)
I knew exactly what this comment said before hitting translate 🥲
Tylko się takie wydawały.
@@scimbreloDěkuje že připomíná jaký to byly pěkný časy, he's thankful for helping us remember how nice times they were back then
Ten komp ma dysk 1000razy wolniejszy i procek z 300razy wolniejszy plus ramu śmiesznie mało i startuje w 40 sekund..
A ty się cieszysz czlowieku że tysiące razy szybszy sprzęt uruchamia win10 w 30 sekund. Ha to tylko okazuje jakie dziadowskie oprogramowanie mamy..
Tvůl komp s win 10 startuje za 30s? To je mi tě líto, můj je po zapnutí (ne post) ve win za 7s (kup si nvme tyvole, moje čte 4GB za sekundu)
this was my teen years. I had Cyrix 686 instead with Voodoo Banshee. 90's were the golden years of PC gaming. You had to be there to know what it was like.
To be honest I don't miss those years. Computers would get obsolete in a couple years, way too many bugs and hardware failures.
Beautiful memories...that is all sound package of nostalgic in 1 minute video💚
Those were some good times.
No, they weren't, you have a short memory.
The best OS ever. I stall have Win98 machine as one of my gaming PCs
U mnie w pierwszej dekadzie XXI wieku:
- Duron 1200
- GeForce 2 MX
- 128 MB RAM
- 40 GB HDD
- Win 98 SE
- Flatron F700B
- klawa Tracera, głośniczki Geniusa
Nie pamiętam płyty głównej, ale zdaje się, że jakiś Biostar
Niezle :)
It is still faster than booting up Windows 10.
try LTSC version
Lol 👍
1.1Ghz is extremely fast for a Win98 OS... Right up against the max i think before it would start reboot cycling instead...
@@WessyD123I have a 2.4 ghz P4 machine with a Win98 install on it.
Laughs in 12 seconds
I don't care how crazy it sounds I miss them sounds. Yeah everything is faster now more stream line..but them sounds and that era on the Internet will always hold a place with me
Aside from that BIOS sequence, my machine with Windows 11 is not booting any faster than this (not counting fast boot enabled)
@@renascence239 oh I Believe it. They just don't make them like they use to anymore
Correction, new windows systems are heavier and laggier than before, they only have compatibility
You can do that with a custom PC. Buy a +2000rpm 3-pin fan (or fix the fan speed to 100%), buy a beep speaker, and let the good time roll... you'll even get the windows chime.
I don't know what these other guys are talking about. With a fresh Windows 10 install and an NVMe drive, I can fully boot into Windows in 15 seconds. It's the P.O.S.T. that might take some time but that depends on the motherboard and how the BIOS/UEFI if configured.
If you have a bloated OEM system, with a HDD, a million things plugged into the I/O, and a slow processor then it will take some time to boot. Each peripheral that's plugged in will make the POST take longer.
It was like the computer was speaking to you. "Now i am reading harddrive, now i am reading CD-rom" etc.
God bless the engineer who thought of removing the on board buzzer from the mainboards. How it put us in trouble back then!!
Cool setup, I'm running a PIII 1ghz, 64MB Geforce 2 MX 420, 512MB SDRAM, 120GB HDD, and 16GB CF-IDE adapter where Windows 98SE's installed.
lucky you, i bought a 1 ghz pentium 3 processor for about 30 dollars on eBay in 2006, we got rid of that, now to get the same processor, its over 250 dollars. im stuck with a crappy 450 mhz pentium 3
@@judenihal I got my first PC as a hand me down in 2006. It has a Celeron 333MHz (Mendocino) which probably would have been pretty cheap to upgrade to a Pentium 3 back in the day. Tbh the Diamond Micronics C400 seems to only support up to Katmai and to upgrade it to Coppermine would require a larger BIOS ROM chip and BIOS from BCM QS440BX (which is an identical board but had a version with a 2Mbit ROM).
I have seen that someone on vogons managed to get 1.4GHz Tualatin Celeron working on the Diamond Micronics C400 but that not only required the larger ROM chip but also a modded BIOS, Tualatin compatible slotket, and of course the Tualatin Celeron. I would have loved to have something like that in 2006, or even just a lower end Coppermine would have been a huge upgrade from the 333MHz Mendocino
Coś pięknego, mega sprzęt, jakoś w 2001 roku miałem P3 500 Mhz, 64 mb ramu i geforce 2 mx, Win 98 oczywiście :) Mam sentyment do takich, starych sprzętow :)
Dzięki za odzew :)
@@hamasz sam ostatnio nagrywałem odcinek o odkopanym ze strychu Pececie,ale troche młodszym z Xp :)
in 2002 I had a similar PC
@@hamasz ah kurcze jednak pare lat starszy i moje poczatki to nawet nie windows95 a nawet przed windows3.1. pare lat roznicy i
128mb ram i procek 1,1ghz to jak miecz swietlny Jedi, przy moim MC68020/14mhz albo Celeron300A z malezji ktory chodzil bez bolu na 450mhz na dobrej plycie, albo AMD Durony ktore mozna bylo olowkiem :D overclocka robic.
piekne czasy. Pozdrawiam
Geforce 2 mx. 64 mb or 32 mb as memory? ❤
800x600 is the gentleman's resolution
i remember it made everything look smaller, but applications required you to change it from 640x480 to 800x600 at the time i didnt understand what that meant, i was young!
@@judenihalque adelantado q estaba las PC en esos momentos.. la resolución a veces ni nos fijabamos
amazing how that decades older computer boots up faster into windows than my decade old computer
get an ssd
@@d9zirable MS developers should be banned to use SSD. Modern OS is impossible now to use with HDD. Endless trashing of hard drive.
just buy a 256gb ssd for windows and use your hhd for anything else?
@@alexandruciordas4941 No. Use XP.
My rtx3070 laptop that i paid 2k+ euros for at 2021 boots slower than this
These Pentium 3 Tualatin based Celeron chips were excellent back in the day.
Dude needs to toss a classic Napster icon on that desktop to really bring out that turn of the century nostalgia.
One of the best windows I've ever had and the machine fucked up in its time, I also had this machine
Oh my goodness, the nostalgia...
Great startup video. Love that you made sure the speakers and monitor were warmed up first before starting the computer. Thats how I used to start up as a kid. Made sure I can see and hear the windows startup.
Thanks for taking me back to when I was 10 years old.
The windows start sound brings up childhood memories.
2023.. eu aqui
Everything is so tactile, love it.
Excelente vídeo.
that processing power in my arms.
I started with Windows 98😊 . Was so much more fun so many things were customizable. I used change the start sound frequently 😊
we used to change all the sounds to farts
@@kezzla 🤣🤣
Win98 SP2 was such a solid version. Deployed hundreds and hundreds of installations over those years in commercial and residential environments.
I installed my Win98 so often, I still remember the 25 characters of my register-code. It's a pretty decent password for everything nowadays.
@@MrZillas I remember the codes for Win95, Win98 and Office 2000 at the time. Good times.
Wrong, all early operating systems sucked, windows 98, 98SE and ME included, because they were built on old technology, making these operating systems slow, very buggy, and VERY insecure!
Microsoft developed Windows NT, built from the ground up, targeted at businesses, where reliability, speed and above all security were in high demand. Windows NT, was followed up by Windows 2000, and Windows XP... these were the 2 first Windows operating systems targeted at home users that were built with the superior NT technology.
I got goosebumps. What an amazing time it was.
Those early Windows operating system were slow, insecure and buggy and you call that an amazing time? Windows NT 4 in those days was light years ahead of that crappy Windows 98.
the good old windows 98 startup sound - remember it well
That startup sound is gold in my book and brings back so many memories. I am hoping when I transition to the afterlife I hear that sound as I awake in Heaven.
Same vibe as watching the ps1 bios boot up. Fascinating.
I still remember Windows 98 being the first PC machine I decided I could live with. I was on a Mac System 7.6 at the time and when it died I inherited a W98 machine and stuck with it.
Despite the monitor being far away, before you panned the camera closer, I can already make out that you have Half-Life, and the Quake trilogy.
Yep
Amazing bootup screen 🖥
I will put that startup sound to my windows 11😃What a beautiful times 🥰
Man that's so nice, even the cheapest speakers were shielded back then. Now I can't put any speakers near my CRT because it warps the picture because of the magnetic fields :(
they were weak, if you put them right against it it might have warped them, plus that magnet werent that big so the space in between pc edge didnt make them warp or you just didnt put them right next to one another
That sound brings back memories!
Another legend.
Serious piece of technology
gotta love that 3dfx sticker
Ууухх... история)))) забавно вспоминать о ней когда уже вышла RTX4090
This brings me back to the time I got my first PC, a potato with P4.
Помню учился в институте в начале 2000-х и именно на таком компе печатал контрольные и курсовые)))
The startup sound is nice. Not loud.
We had these beasts in our school, and there was an intern teacher who installed Doom on it in secret for me, fucking sick
you rock my world, dude!
when i was a kid, this is what the school computers looked like. they didnt even upgrade them until around 2008.
*_" they didnt even upgrade them until around 2008."_*
It's not called "upgrading" when you replace them with faster machines.
Ah, Win98-SE.. My first PC. Pentium 3 @ 733mhz.. 16Mb's RAM and a Riva TNT as GPU.
First game played in that thing? SimCity 3000 WE!
Memories just came
Total commander love
This was the bomb back in the day.
probably the first time ive ever heard that windows startup sound from actual hardware instead of just an sfx
this computers have a spirit
glad i was part of that time ,i got touch with that pc in cybercofee and in school that time
I like the Energy Star logo.
I had those exact speakers. Legendary.
brings back memories.
That is a cute monitor
Those times were amazing. I love those times I miss them so much. I was healthy and happy and now I'm dying
To be honest, those computers in those days were crap; slow, unreliable, and that Windows 98 was also slow, buggy and very insecure!
I still remember this like casual yesterday
Can you calibrate the monitor so the image fills the screen?
This is really classic👍
Those were the days when you noticed a big difference if you upgraded to 7200rpm harddrive from one with 5400rpm.
Dude, that's nothing compared to going from a floppy drive to a hard drive.
>3DFX sticker
>"Nvidia GeForce 2 VGA BIOS"
ooooh shots fired!
I love Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11. ❤🎉
This is better than my first pc. There was no CD ROM, Win 3.1 was my first operating system and Pentium was 100 MHz.
You were lucky, my first CPU ran at 4.7Mhz... and I'm not kidding.
I Never had a Celeron I did have a AMD Thunderbird around this time though, It was a great CPU back then.
Прикольно, последний раз на таком играл в Диабло 2 и герои 3)
Imagina los 90's trabajar en Sony computer y estar creando videojuegos para la Playstation one en máquinas tan potentes como está.
Great PC and PC Sound ! I am your 461 Subscriber
Oh, do I miss the old "clicky keys" keyboards! I had the thunderclap startup sound from Soundblaster Live card on mine...
Those golden days !!
Golden? Quite the opposite.
Nostalgia cara show
😁
My nifty CTL ChromeBox.
1,1 GHz to już zmierzch Windows 98. Czasy świetności miał na procesorach 400 - 500 MHz. Po wyglądzie widzę że sprzęt stoi w Polsce :)
looks to be a finland flag up on the wall at the very end of this video
Full of memories...
Memories are coming back
1 minute to boot up ?!? I’ve never witnessed such a feat with an OS that old !
They didn't have the spyware on them then that new computers have. Some 98 machines could boot up pretty fast, and shut down ridiculously fast.
it feels like starting an old war plane
Oh, sweet memories.. I remember this
Chicony KB-5911, The Ultimate Keyboard
Impressive. Very nice.
I still have an unopened copy of Windows 98. Ran Win-98 on my 486 DX-66 (66 Mhz 80486 processor) in 1999. I later upgraded it in 2000 with a new motherboard and Pentium 233 mhz processor for Frys Electronics. Also upped it from a 500MB hard drive to a 2 GB one for US$79.
That's modern technology... others like me started with a 4.7 Mhz processor, 250KB ram, and a single 5 1/2" floppy drive as mass storage, while look at a monochrome monitor.
@@monza8844 My first PC was a VIC-20 in 1982, with 3.5kb of ram and a 1mhz 6502 processor, with a cassette deck for storage. And accessory cartridge bumped it up to a massive 16kb. Learned to program in BASIC with it.
A year later I gave it to a family member and bought a use Apple ][e with a whopping 64kb of RAM and 2 floppy drives. I still have a number of slot cards for one like a Grappler+ printer interface card stashed away.
The oldest PC I ever used was a 386 DX-33 "Turbo" at work. Funny how they put the catch-word TURBO on everything back then. Even the Viper spaceships in Battlestar Galactica had turbo buttons on their control sticks ;-)
super nostalgic 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Start up sound of my childhood
PC literacy and later repair class were the OS teachers had😅 I was wowed compared to 95 machines students saddled with.
Аж слеза потекла
Sieht aus wie mein erster PC aus dem Jahr 2000 ❤❤👍.
Old memory great days
Those were the computers. I had AMD K6-2 400mhz , S3 Trio 64V+ 2MB, 32MB RAM, 2GB HDD, Windows 98 in 1998. 🙃
Computers that have us nightmares.
@@monza8844 I would not agree with that. No nightmares with those computers, just sweet dreams.
@@branislavmilosevic4289
Windows 98 was already outdated when it was released, an OS that was still running on top of the old DOS. That lead to a very buggy, slow, and above all very insecure OS!
I'm not an Apple fan, but I do know that their operating system in 1998 was vastly superior to Windows 98; it was faster, way more reliable, far more secure, and just overall better designed, and also looked modern.
In the late 80's companies wanted a more robust Windows OS, one that was faster, more reliable, and above all secure! Microsoft then decided to build Windows from the ground up, and Windows NT was born in 1993.
Windows NT evolved into Windows 2000, and it was a sign of things to come when Microsoft stated that Windows ME would be their last Windows version built on the old technology. Every OS released after Windows ME is build on the foundation of Windows NT.
I've been working in the IT since '87. 1998 was the year I met my wife (living far away from me, across the ocean), so the computers we used to communicate online are still fresh in my memory, as also the OS we used, and all of that on top of my experiences with late 90's hardware and Windows 98.
The computers in those days were not impressive at all...period. The fact that that hardware was outdated in no time was a sad reminder. In the years Intel started to release the (in those days) shockingly fast Core2Duo and Core2Quad CPU's (that almost killed AMD), that's when we started to see not just a huge boost in performance, but also reliability, security and innovation.
Computer hardware nowadays is far more reliable, and ages much better. A lot of people are still using 6-8 year old systems that still feel more than enough for most people's needs. That was not the case in 1998... not even close.
There is nothing great about 1998. You call it sweet dreams, I call it hassle, disappointing performance, and a security hell. I just dealt with it as best I could at work, because there was nothing better, until we we switched from IBM main frames to Windows NT 4 clients and servers.
And look at it today! I got NVME drives running at 7200 read and write speed, I boot into Windows in 5 seconds. I have a flash drive thumb drive that can carry 256GB of data, and transfer at speed of almost 1GB/sec. I could get a 1TB model for only $68. Think about that for once... in those days we had to buy a Windows 98 CDROM, now we can put every Windows OS ever made on a thumb drive, and we're still not using more than 50GB on our 1TB flash drive.
Unlike the late 90's, I'm not running out of storage anymore on my system either, hard drives storage is cheap, and RAM too. Look around you, many people have done just fine with 16GB of RAM for almost 10 years.
You have just forgotten what kind of drama everything was in the late 90's. I can now run multiple operating systems inside a virtual machines with ease!
There are far less limits in this day and age, in the old days we were far too limited because of the hardware, OS or costs. In this day and age we can build anything we want, the amount of different parts we can buy is almost unlimited.
There was nothing "sweet dreams" about "AMD K6-2 400mhz , S3 Trio 64V+ 2MB, 32MB RAM, 2GB HDD, Windows 98 in 1998"... nothing. A 2GB hard drive didn't even have room for 400 MPs of 5MB each, and even less if we take into account the storage needed for OS, applications and other data. Nowadays you can often store over a half a million MP3's.
And that S3 Trio 64V+ 2MB didn't get you very far, often in 2 years you would have to get a new GPU, but not anymore in modern days. Heck, in some cases we actually double our FPS with technologies like Nvidia DLSS.
No, there was nothing "sweet dreams" about computers in 1998... lacking performance, lacking ram, lacking storage, lacking speed, lacking reliability, lacking security, etc. Heck, printers were still sold with parallel cables, and serial ports were still a thing.
No thanks! ha!
honestly i totally forgot about how screen resolutions bigger than 1024x768 werent really common during that time.
Golden age 😍
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