Interview with 90s Computer Nerd [Upscaled 4K]

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  • Опубликовано: 15 янв 2025

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  • @phatkin
    @phatkin Месяц назад +1494

    "it's not plug 'n play, it's 'plug and pray'"
    so fucking real tbh

    • @ecosta
      @ecosta Месяц назад +11

      I recall I did that joke to myself whenever I tried a new hardware...

    • @cosmicusstardust3300
      @cosmicusstardust3300 Месяц назад +3

      This was where Linux was a couple of years ago lol

    • @CallmeBae
      @CallmeBae Месяц назад

      *bae has a big question, bae uses the intel iris Xe dg {asus} card to install on the celeron PC on bae channel,bae download the graphic card driver on the shengqi page. When only that card is plugged in, the screen is black. But when plugged in with Arc a750 (only plug the riser into the pcie with the auxiliary power cord, not plugging in the display output) plug in the display output by display port of the iris vga, the pc can be used and it is still receiving iris. The graphic Xe can use so much %, i also tested the card loading 100%, and the arc does not plug in the display output so in gpu 2 it says 0%. That means my celeron PC is definitely using the iris card. But bae does not understand that since til now,i still cannot let the machine run on only the iris card every time i remove the arc, the screen is black even though it is clearly not plugging in any kind of display and using display by Asus iris dg. Bae asked a lot of people in Vietnam but it seems like only I have encountered this situation in my country. I hope someone has an answer to help me because since then I have tried many ways like changing the pcie slot or trying to insert a different card with iris but nothing is working. If you knows the sistuation or anyone who capable of dealing with this, please contact f.b bae bê*

    • @drheck
      @drheck Месяц назад +4

      steve gibson used to say that too

    • @heno02
      @heno02 Месяц назад +5

      I remember hearing that joke back in our highschool computer lab told by my teacher when I was 14. In 1995.

  • @ChristopherBrown-bj4zl
    @ChristopherBrown-bj4zl Месяц назад +911

    Let's appreciate the fact he got a working 90's setup for this bit

    • @SomeDudeInBaltimore
      @SomeDudeInBaltimore Месяц назад +29

      Yeah, for real, grab the still working ones while you can, there are fewer and fewer every day. I got lucky to get my hands on a Tandy 1000 that still works.

    • @MyAmazingUsername
      @MyAmazingUsername Месяц назад +74

      What do you mean? That is his main computer. This was filmed in 1999.

    • @DR_1_1
      @DR_1_1 Месяц назад +3

      Maybe it's all AI generated ;-)

    • @daverich3352
      @daverich3352 Месяц назад +6

      Looks genuine, the casing is yellowed enough for 30 years ago.

    • @artugert
      @artugert Месяц назад +4

      @@MyAmazingUsername 🤣

  • @TN-cx4qi
    @TN-cx4qi Месяц назад +1217

    If you weren’t defragmenting once a week back in the 90s you weren’t living.

    • @ecosta
      @ecosta Месяц назад +27

      Or parking the HD head before turning the PC off...

    • @GravitoRaize
      @GravitoRaize Месяц назад +6

      I had the equivalent of scheduled tasks (which also didn't really exist) to do defragments in Win95 and Win98 every Sunday evening. I also regularly printed out my IRQs, but people also forget that a lot of us were just reinstalling the OS every 1 or 2 years anyway from like 1995-2004. Windows XP was released in 2001, but it wasn't till like SP2 that it was really stable and supported enough as an OS to serve as a gaming computer.

    • @semperinumbra
      @semperinumbra Месяц назад +4

      and then you accidentally jiggle the mouse

    • @marshmallowmonster7731
      @marshmallowmonster7731 Месяц назад +20

      Fun Fact: Buddy of mine messed up his HDD once after constantly kicking his PC (mostly when he was killed in a game). He fucked up some sector on his harddrive so he was forced to reinstall windows every day for like 30 minutes just to be able to play Icewind Dale.

    • @abelnagy422
      @abelnagy422 Месяц назад +12

      I'm 22. I have countless memories of my dad sitting in front of the computer (I think it was Win XP) watching the defragmentation progress line slowly crawl up. His gf would mock him about it all the time "your dad's busy running defragmentation", referring to how he just stared at the screen doing nothing for at least half an hour.
      Mind you this was mid 00s, not the 90s.

  • @cappuchino_creations
    @cappuchino_creations Месяц назад +767

    Kids will never know how futuristic it was to switch from Windows95 to Windows XP. And then trying to play games in Compability mode and your graphics is fecked up because it tries to simulate Win95...

    • @ProOmgHeadshot
      @ProOmgHeadshot Месяц назад +46

      XP to Vista also felt futuristic aesthetically. Too bad the performance was crap.

    • @Fab666.
      @Fab666. Месяц назад +49

      Encarta on win 95 felt like the moon landing

    • @anonymouscommentator
      @anonymouscommentator Месяц назад +12

      this sounds like playing games on linux using proton

    • @CottidaeSEA
      @CottidaeSEA Месяц назад +18

      @@ProOmgHeadshot Vista ran fine if you had the most expensive consumer grade hardware out there, what do you mean? I see nothing wrong there. You mean they installed it on budget laptops because of Microsoft? Unthinkable. Microsoft would *never* do such a thing.

    • @blackwidowrsa
      @blackwidowrsa Месяц назад +6

      @@CottidaeSEA ran fine on my pos budget pc, just needed that extra 512mb ram over xp

  • @Seftdelmer
    @Seftdelmer Месяц назад +225

    The amount of commitment shown here with the authentic hairstyle (the curtains) is to be commended.

    • @monumento.f.501
      @monumento.f.501 Месяц назад +3

      he forgot to reduce the frame rate, but we are forgetfull.

    • @ahall9839
      @ahall9839 25 дней назад

      Unfortunately it was impossible to unsoy himself, he is still soyer than even the most soy nerds in the 90s

  • @llvn11
    @llvn11 Месяц назад +733

    The aspect ratio is such a good detail

    • @MATHURIN92
      @MATHURIN92 Месяц назад +6

      fuck I didn't realize, because my main screen is super old...

    • @jan.tichavsky
      @jan.tichavsky Месяц назад +20

      also the noise level

    • @theycallmeken
      @theycallmeken Месяц назад +5

      @@jan.tichavsky and those unnecessary scan lines

    • @terryriley6410
      @terryriley6410 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@theycallmekenunnecessary? it's a CRT.

    • @cl0ud88
      @cl0ud88 Месяц назад +2

      Oh no, I didn't even notice

  • @GregRobsonUK
    @GregRobsonUK Месяц назад +468

    “Soundblaster 16 IRQ Conflicts are a way of life” - I’m old enough for that to trigger some painful memories. 😬
    “I re-install Windows every 3 months. I back up all my data on floppies…. I loose all my data every three months.” … god this all feels far too relatable as a Windows ‘95 user back in the day!

    • @AlexDemidov
      @AlexDemidov Месяц назад +17

      I remember buying an SB16 in 95. It cost me a monthly salary but then I replayed every game I had one after another, reinstalling them from floppies. The proper sound after hearing only a PC speaker in the life before. That growl of the Doom monsters.

    • @ecosta
      @ecosta Месяц назад +9

      @@AlexDemidov You two are making me go a memory lane deeper than the video itself... I recall when I finally was able to understand how to setup IRQs via jumpers on boards, then set it up on Doom... I felt so powerful...

    • @u1f98a
      @u1f98a Месяц назад +3

      reinstalling windows every 3 months is also relatable as a windows 10 user

    • @EvanKnightIsGood
      @EvanKnightIsGood Месяц назад

      oh man, i really did have a soundcard that used the same IRQ as a modem. I had to unplug the modem for sounds or the sound for the modem. It was a pain in the ass.

    • @ineedabetterhandle
      @ineedabetterhandle Месяц назад +1

      I've reinstalled Windows so many times (mostly 98 but some 95 as well) that I knew 4 different license keys by heart. My record is 7 times in a day on the same PC trying to make a game work. Back in the day, that was our go-to routine. Reinstall Windows, install drivers again, etc. I had a CD titled "When the sh!t goes down" which contained installers for everything I needed plus some backups. I miss those days, it was a lot of fun :D

  • @isabelringing
    @isabelringing Месяц назад +220

    "I still can't get the printer to work." Some things never change. 😂

    • @autonoob
      @autonoob Месяц назад +6

      To be fair, back then I got the printer to work.
      …and you could print black stuff even when the colour had run out.

    • @Marcusianery
      @Marcusianery 28 дней назад +1

      @@autonoob Those where the days....I remember that bulky beast under the table. Just printing and printing and printing.

    • @varadinagypal
      @varadinagypal 27 дней назад +1

      At least it's with an ink subscription nowadays :P :P :P

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth 15 дней назад +2

      PC Load Letter

    • @xsyzz
      @xsyzz 12 дней назад

      @@autonoob after how many hours? how many different drivers and printers did you try?^^

  • @Zarr
    @Zarr Месяц назад +895

    According to the cyberpunk manifesto, I cannot like Microsoft.
    But according to these disk errors, I cannot install Linux lmao

    • @jorgamund07
      @jorgamund07 Месяц назад +82

      The days when you needed to know the brand of every computer component to know if Linux would install.

    • @rokker333
      @rokker333 Месяц назад +40

      For my first linux installation I had to recompile the kernel with proper settings to get it run in graphics mode for my monitor.

    • @HansMaxiBricks
      @HansMaxiBricks Месяц назад +11

      cypherpunk*

    • @TrackZero
      @TrackZero Месяц назад +38

      For Slackware 1.0, I managed to install off a CD-ROM. Then once install was complete, Linux wouldn't recognize my CD drive.....

    • @personanongratis
      @personanongratis Месяц назад +2

      @@jorgamund07 Well, kinda like these days!

  • @seritools
    @seritools Месяц назад +518

    1:15 aint no way a 90s kid inserts a floppy the wrong way 💀💀

    • @TimHoekstra
      @TimHoekstra Месяц назад

      Only done to make usb kids feel better

    • @peppybocan
      @peppybocan Месяц назад +47

      honestly, that ruins the whole video for me.

    • @drooplug
      @drooplug Месяц назад +12

      That was hilarious. 🤣

    • @ecosta
      @ecosta Месяц назад +17

      When you have your computer locked down on a 23-disk installation of some MS crap, you do weird stuff...

    • @Maxjoker98
      @Maxjoker98 Месяц назад +11

      I've done that often enough that when I saw him move his hands towards the computer I could already tell he was holding it wrong.

  • @dakata2416
    @dakata2416 Месяц назад +243

    "I have all my data backed up on floppies"
    "I lose all my data every 3 months"

    • @elektronischermeister
      @elektronischermeister Месяц назад +7

      That is (was) very real

    • @JohnVance
      @JohnVance Месяц назад +5

      The real '90s hackers backed all their data up to public FTP websites and never looked back

    • @freeman37
      @freeman37 Месяц назад +3

      floppies got demagnetized 💀

    • @dubiouslycrisp
      @dubiouslycrisp 28 дней назад +4

      I once did a backup by compressing all my files into one big archive file, over 100 MB. Then split those into chunks that would each fill up a floppy. I wrote those files to about 100 floppies. Then swapped hard drives (upgrading to a bigger one) and tried to reverse the operation. The first floppy that had an error on it stopped all the others from working too, because they weren't independent pieces. They were parts of a whole. The archive software said it's invalid. Lesson learned. A backup is useless unless you have taken steps to protect it from Murphy's Law.

    • @jamesocull547
      @jamesocull547 27 дней назад +3

      @@dubiouslycrispone time I tried to ghost (copy) a drive from one to the other. They were both 40GB. …. I picked the wrong source and overwrote all my data with trash. Pain is the teacher.

  • @Ishimanian
    @Ishimanian Месяц назад +202

    “Indie games” is terminology that started mid 2000’s from TIGsource and after the release of early games like Aquaria and Darwinia and such had been released. Around the time Digg died, iirc.
    The terms you want are Shareware and Freeware. How a lot of people played stuff like Terminal Velocity, Escape Velocity, sierra games, etc.

    • @palvaradinagy6703
      @palvaradinagy6703 Месяц назад +29

      warez :D

    • @fabricio4794
      @fabricio4794 Месяц назад

      ​@@palvaradinagy6703 abandowarez

    • @spesialek
      @spesialek Месяц назад +5

      I can remember developers like Naughty Dog and Shiny being referred to as “indie developers” in the 90s

    • @Efecretion
      @Efecretion Месяц назад +12

      Also nobody used the term bricked back then

    • @Ishimanian
      @Ishimanian Месяц назад +6

      @@spesialek I definitely don't remember this - I do remember Naughty Dog being used as an example of what Third Party developers are though, back when gaming magazines actually had articles n shit. Computer Gaming World, Game Informer, NEXT generation, PC Games, PC Gamer.

  • @RayAndrewsDev
    @RayAndrewsDev Месяц назад +94

    The "uh-oh" sound still triggers a panic response

    • @volodymyrkleban1484
      @volodymyrkleban1484 29 дней назад +10

      For me it is the opposite. This meant some girl on ICQ wanted to talk to me

  • @MyAmazingUsername
    @MyAmazingUsername Месяц назад +76

    Your username Ph4n70mM4n is painfully accurate. In the 90s, I was F1r3Dr4g0n. 😂😂😂

    • @FassinTaak
      @FassinTaak 28 дней назад +11

      Mate. I was /

    • @varadinagypal
      @varadinagypal 27 дней назад +2

      1337 :D

    • @swaslaukinonome
      @swaslaukinonome 13 дней назад

      I think I went by F1r3Dr4gon3 for a week. Apparently you have at least two fans lol.

  • @JasonLayton
    @JasonLayton Месяц назад +114

    The X-files poster was a nice touch

    • @yetanotherbloke
      @yetanotherbloke Месяц назад +1

      And was a South Park poster?

    • @nvrst
      @nvrst Месяц назад +5

      As is the Beavis and Butthead poster.

  • @SIackware
    @SIackware Месяц назад +126

    I sure miss this era of computers, however I sure as hell don't miss installing an operating system with 40 floppy disks

    • @ecosta
      @ecosta Месяц назад +8

      I can't recall which installation had about 14 disks and the installation "wizard" asked for them in a semi-random order...

    • @SIackware
      @SIackware Месяц назад +17

      ​@@ecostaSounds like Windows 3.1, its installation process was exactly that. 14 floppies, random order etc

    • @irfuel
      @irfuel Месяц назад +1

      OS/2

  • @ogreman81
    @ogreman81 Месяц назад +230

    Jim is now middle-age.
    I am now middle-age.
    :(

    • @ChrisM541
      @ChrisM541 Месяц назад +16

      I am now old age :( :(

    • @ciscornBIG
      @ciscornBIG Месяц назад +14

      I wanna go back. Born in 81

    • @jckf
      @jckf Месяц назад +3

      :(

    • @jimbarino2
      @jimbarino2 Месяц назад

      @@ciscornBIG 1970. Get off my lawn!

    • @rainkloud
      @rainkloud Месяц назад +4

      Or as I like to say, "I'm a mage"

  • @trainee5471
    @trainee5471 Месяц назад +200

    1:36 "Indie game studios" - I don't think there was such a terminology back in 1995

    • @adityaanuragi6916
      @adityaanuragi6916 Месяц назад +27

      Yea that wasn't a terminology back then
      Only after the iPhone did that term start picking up steam

    • @marsdriver2501
      @marsdriver2501 Месяц назад +6

      where there non-indie game studios?

    • @noctis_rune
      @noctis_rune Месяц назад +5

      ​@@marsdriver2501 well, any games that are distributed by a publisher is not an indie game. That means practically any game that comes from a disc.
      As for games that now are considered indie games, probably includes most stuff you find online, like flash games?

    • @ficolas2
      @ficolas2 Месяц назад +32

      Back then they were just called "game studios"

    • @themartdog
      @themartdog Месяц назад +7

      I don't think "photorealistic" was a term used in computing back then either, even to talk about future graphics.

  • @tequilasunset4651
    @tequilasunset4651 Месяц назад +85

    we are so back
    back
    back in the 90's

  • @itskittyme
    @itskittyme Месяц назад +97

    This video is extremely sharp for a 90s video.

    • @setheliot1
      @setheliot1 Месяц назад +26

      " [Upscaled 4K]"

    • @itskittyme
      @itskittyme Месяц назад +8

      @@setheliot1 I can't disprove that claim

    • @YaroslavFedevych
      @YaroslavFedevych Месяц назад +7

      AI was upscaling it and that’s how Jim got his beard, it’s a hallucination

    • @EditioCastigata
      @EditioCastigata Месяц назад +2

      Prob a friend from an anime fansub group on IRC helped him clean this up.

  • @Sonnell
    @Sonnell Месяц назад +53

    This channel is so underrated! Such great humour :D

  • @Nekoeye
    @Nekoeye Месяц назад +40

    His future predictions are so spot on. The guy beats the Simpsons.

  • @psychodriveskip
    @psychodriveskip Месяц назад +21

    The sound of an incoming ICQ message really hit home

    • @SilvesterBoots
      @SilvesterBoots 27 дней назад

      Incredible how emotionally evocative this thing still is. I guess waiting for message from friend in youth had really profound emotional impact.

  • @EEVblog
    @EEVblog Месяц назад +7

    Best thing I've seen on the internet this week.

  • @lukeskywalker7029
    @lukeskywalker7029 Месяц назад +88

    way too relatable. the hackers movie, not being able to switch to linux, warez, IRC channels full of stuff, AOL and ICQ sounds Damn its been a while🥳

    • @ecosta
      @ecosta Месяц назад +11

      X Files and Beavis & Butthead posters...

    • @lukeskywalker7029
      @lukeskywalker7029 Месяц назад

      @@JethroBodine1422 nope... I started with 52k ;)

    • @etsequentia6765
      @etsequentia6765 Месяц назад +1

      Morpheus and Limewire.

    • @touristtam
      @touristtam Месяц назад

      @@etsequentia6765napster and emule

    • @Curt_Sampson
      @Curt_Sampson 18 дней назад

      I wish I would have met him at the time; I would have told him to use NetBSD instead!

  • @WillCooper1
    @WillCooper1 Месяц назад +51

    YOU'VE GOT MAIL! YOU'VE GOT MAIL! YOU'VE GOT MAIL!

  • @PasqualItizzz
    @PasqualItizzz Месяц назад +38

    Legends say he's resetting his mIRC trial to this day

    • @thegrumpydeveloper
      @thegrumpydeveloper Месяц назад +3

      Wow mirc. Who knew slack was hiding in plain sight for so long.

    • @maazali9604
      @maazali9604 23 дня назад

      @@thegrumpydeveloper well yeah. slack, discord etc... are all IRC clones.

  • @robincray116
    @robincray116 Месяц назад +33

    0:52 "I cut the phone cord" Back when I had dail up, I had been tempted to do that as well.

  • @EdmundKempersDartboard
    @EdmundKempersDartboard Месяц назад +73

    I thought I would never have to see that photorealistic dancing baby again. You have injured me.
    And this was amazing.

  • @patriknydensten1363
    @patriknydensten1363 Месяц назад +16

    Brilliant! Took me back 30 years in an instant.

  • @TehKarmalizer
    @TehKarmalizer Месяц назад +6

    This channel is gold. It’s a series of pseudo-documentaries that really capture the zeitgeists of the subjects.

  • @abhaynath5833
    @abhaynath5833 Месяц назад +49

    'This program has performed illegal operation and it will shut down....'
    2nd most horrible message you can see on Windows 95 & 98.
    1st spot goes to blue screen of death.

    • @MScotty90
      @MScotty90 Месяц назад +12

      That message scared me so much when I first saw it as a kid. I thought the police were about to kick in the door and arrest me.

    • @inertia_dagger
      @inertia_dagger Месяц назад +7

      ​@@MScotty90that write outside of memory bounds? 5 year sentence

    • @osimarmedeiros
      @osimarmedeiros Месяц назад +6

      "Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue."

    • @etsequentia6765
      @etsequentia6765 Месяц назад +1

      Segmentation fault.

    • @werdna_sir
      @werdna_sir 29 дней назад

      Guru Meditation

  • @valiantviktor
    @valiantviktor Месяц назад +23

    Beautiful... even has some of the all-or-nothing predictions from the 90s that either came true or were nowhere near it.

    • @Puschit1
      @Puschit1 8 дней назад +1

      We still don't have a working hoverboard!

  • @monkeyfish227
    @monkeyfish227 Месяц назад +67

    40x speed is already end of 1999 or early 2000.

    • @babstra55
      @babstra55 Месяц назад +8

      yea a lot of things were more like early 2000s... but close enough.

    • @tungstentoaster
      @tungstentoaster 27 дней назад +4

      Multithreading was the one that got me.
      Pentium 4 era (First consumer Intel chip with hyperthreading) was early 2000s.

  • @JoyOfSummerFruit
    @JoyOfSummerFruit Месяц назад +32

    He just skips over Windows 3.11. The youth is so oblivious to our glorious history.

    • @TechCellfish
      @TechCellfish Месяц назад

      Many did. Even as an amiga user, dos felt better than win3.x.. Went dos to win95 myself

    • @Krishna0666
      @Krishna0666 Месяц назад +5

      If you had computer just for gaming Win 3 was not a must. DOS was enough

    • @SilvesterBoots
      @SilvesterBoots 27 дней назад

      @@Krishna0666 bbbut graphical text processor!

    • @teenspirit1
      @teenspirit1 24 дня назад

      @@Krishna0666 I had a computer for gaming. The game was called Freecell.

    • @Curt_Sampson
      @Curt_Sampson 18 дней назад

      @@Krishna0666 Even for a lot of other things, too. Before I switched to NetBSD I was a Novell NetWare admin, and used straight-up DOS with DESQview and QEMM-386, and 4DOS as the shell. This gave _far_ more stable multitasking than Windows did.

  • @DOLGOVUSER
    @DOLGOVUSER 23 дня назад +3

    Hackers movie shown.
    Quake and doom mentioned.
    This is the dude of culture!

  • @judewestburner
    @judewestburner Месяц назад +3

    LOVE the ergonomics!!!! Such a perfect detail.
    Wished he had one of those desks with the pull-out keyboard tray 😄😄

  • @SomeDudeInBaltimore
    @SomeDudeInBaltimore Месяц назад +26

    "Flash-based mobile websites are the future." 💀

    • @MelroyvandenBerg
      @MelroyvandenBerg Месяц назад

      @LuarVik-x1l it was indeed. for several years

    • @supertoastboi
      @supertoastboi 29 дней назад +1

      ​@MelroyvandenBerg last flash game I played was Joe cartoon 😢 good times.

    • @eugenkeller
      @eugenkeller 16 дней назад

      mobile was a huge cellphone with a battery.... to make expensive phone calls... if I'm not mistaken

  • @nathanbarlow4572
    @nathanbarlow4572 Месяц назад +7

    Hey man I adore your videos and the "daily routine" bit was utterly spot on for 90s/2000s interviews, but the cropping on the CRT made me immediately suspect they were just RUclips videos playing from a modern computer. Especially the double pillar and letterbox on the 4:3 ones. Ultra wideo is the extension I use everywhere to fix RUclips videos that are cropped wrong like that when I want to watch them in 4:3 on my CRTs.

    • @shade221
      @shade221 Месяц назад

      the typical monitor would been calibrated to have thick margins to ensure a more geometrically accurate picture, but not as thick as seen in the video.

  • @twpayne
    @twpayne 29 дней назад +1

    As a child who grew up in this world, this was beautifully observed, and way more spot-on than I liked. Thank you.

  • @fadd6895
    @fadd6895 Месяц назад +44

    AltaVista is the future !

    • @fadd6895
      @fadd6895 Месяц назад +6

      oh wait LYCOS might be better .

    • @robertjenkins6132
      @robertjenkins6132 Месяц назад +6

      Unironically better than 2024 Google Search.

    • @jojoanggono3229
      @jojoanggono3229 Месяц назад

      Those names do ring a distant bell, very distant...😂 Netscape was the browser right?

    • @kangarooninja2594
      @kangarooninja2594 Месяц назад

      Found the Pawnee resident.

    • @DR_1_1
      @DR_1_1 Месяц назад

      @@robertjenkins6132 True, they build monopolies (almost all search engines rely on data from Google crawlers) by eliminating all competition, and when done, they just crap on users...

  • @Grashalm
    @Grashalm Месяц назад +17

    only thing missing is connecting the joystick to the soundcard

  • @Cybnew
    @Cybnew Месяц назад +7

    Didn't expect to see a documentary about my childhood

  • @danser_theplayer01
    @danser_theplayer01 Месяц назад +2

    I like how we went full circle with mechanical keyboards being old school, old tech, to now being best kind of keyboard with all the types of switches, changeable caps, replaceable switches (you can even mix switch types in such a keyboard) and of course RGB everywhere.

    • @novaflareq4788
      @novaflareq4788 Месяц назад

      "BUCKLING SPRING WITH N-KEY ROLLOVER"
      -IBM Model F

  • @thematicschematic
    @thematicschematic Месяц назад +4

    "Soundblaster 16 IRQ conflicts are a way of life" made me laugh way too much. From the trauma.

  • @angrybatarian
    @angrybatarian 24 дня назад +1

    The oversaturation and brightness is on point

  • @Novascrub
    @Novascrub Месяц назад +7

    When he said TSRs, I really felt that.

  • @ray-ray_jackson2k5
    @ray-ray_jackson2k5 4 дня назад +1

    Hell yeah! I grew up on a 486 and was excited when we got upgraded to 95 from 3.1. Watch out for that turbo button.

  • @palvaradinagy6703
    @palvaradinagy6703 Месяц назад +39

    Maybe I missed it in the video. Not hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL once? Not once? Never? Why?

    • @relhimp
      @relhimp 28 дней назад +1

      Because with win 95 you didn't have reset key-combo, no reset button either.
      Win 95 required reset pedal.

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth 15 дней назад

      ALT + ESCAPE!

    • @atranimecs
      @atranimecs 12 дней назад

      Like ctrl+alt+del worked...never hard reset an OS more than win 98

  • @Joanna25G
    @Joanna25G Месяц назад

    Thank you for doing this one, I traveled back in time for a bit, with tears of laughter, recognition, fond memories and a yearning to be back in those simpler times ❤

  • @fuseblower8128
    @fuseblower8128 Месяц назад +11

    "It's way more stable" BSoD right on cue! 😂

  • @otter-pro
    @otter-pro Месяц назад +5

    This is too accurate. Now I remember how my brother ran up phone bill in the thousands of dollar for using internet and BBS once and my parents were so upset.

    • @ddubs123
      @ddubs123 29 дней назад

      I did that by accident too. I thought long distance was only when you dialed outside your area code.

  • @t33mtech59
    @t33mtech59 Месяц назад +3

    In the 90s every PC game dev was an indie dev. RIP Westwood

  • @guilherme5094
    @guilherme5094 Месяц назад +10

    We had The X-Files, we were happy and we didn't know it!

  • @franciscomagalhaes7457
    @franciscomagalhaes7457 Месяц назад +7

    lol soundblaster 16, I'd almost forgotten about that. Blast from the past indeed.

  • @shadowwarrier4416
    @shadowwarrier4416 28 дней назад +5

    90s people "I still can't get the printer to work"
    people from 2024 "I still can't get the printer to work"
    I guess some things never change

  • @martian8987
    @martian8987 Месяц назад +16

    I wish I was '90s happy

    • @martian8987
      @martian8987 Месяц назад +8

      Instead Im 2024 happy (basically some sort of illness).

    • @HouseAIwaysWins
      @HouseAIwaysWins Месяц назад +6

      2024 happy aka "you'll own nothing and be happy"

    • @SIackware
      @SIackware Месяц назад +4

      @@HouseAIwaysWinsyou vill eat ze bugs

  • @lckrgl
    @lckrgl 29 дней назад +2

    "I reinstall windows every 3 months"
    ...
    "I lose all my data every 3 months"
    I can relate to that

  • @aaronhammond7297
    @aaronhammond7297 Месяц назад +21

    Ha, bloody sound blaster. Vesa drivers were a pain in the ass too

    • @RayAndrewsDev
      @RayAndrewsDev Месяц назад +4

      Reading "Vesa drivers" still makes my eye twitch

    • @Technobabylon
      @Technobabylon Месяц назад

      I still have my sound blaster settings memorised from having to put it in the installer so often

    • @asimplenameichose151
      @asimplenameichose151 Месяц назад

      YES ... still have memories of attempting to load up DOS games under Win95 - relatives would find out you were into 'computers' or 'computer games' and buy you something that was on sale and looked exciting but was from a generation or two back, and the driver / IRQ conflict stuff was remarkable, especially back then when I had hardly any idea what I was doing with computers

    • @werdna_sir
      @werdna_sir 29 дней назад

      ​@Technobabylon IRQ 5, DMA 1, Port 220

  • @mrtwrecks
    @mrtwrecks 28 дней назад +1

    “He shares with us how he first felt about using the new graphical user interface…”
    “It’s complete bullshit.”
    🤣🤣🤣

  • @NogCube
    @NogCube Месяц назад +6

    2:11 how I first felt about Windows 11. 🤣

    • @Chrysamer77
      @Chrysamer77 14 дней назад

      Anything after 7 really

  • @jp-ny2pd
    @jp-ny2pd Месяц назад +3

    The working disk set for linux hits. I remember not having 14+ floppies for SuSE back in the day so I got two and used another computer to write each disk when needed.

  • @tatianaturner2782
    @tatianaturner2782 Месяц назад +15

    Really shows in Paint.

  • @wolbeoj7739
    @wolbeoj7739 29 дней назад +1

    The ICQ message chime. Also, nothing more satisfying that spending hours and hours to fix your memory to run a game, that you pirated, only for it to crash at a new spot. Literally, its like I'm back in 1996.

  • @mcbpete
    @mcbpete Месяц назад +9

    1:26 Woah, full screen video playback in Windows at a framerate above a frame per second - that hacker has some machine back in '96 !

  • @marius.orehovschi
    @marius.orehovschi Месяц назад

    I really enjoyed the quality of the video, audio, and props on this one

  • @spencereaston8292
    @spencereaston8292 29 дней назад +5

    This is NOT parody! This is 1994 to every detail. Hell a copy of Borland Turbo C hosted on a BBS spawned the software careers of a dozen people in my area. NOTE: If you are a dev that made the Borland IDE you developed the standard which I have graded all IDEs against for 30 years.

  • @TrestonCal
    @TrestonCal Месяц назад +4

    So many funny and true comments here. That computer he has take me back, maybe 96 or so.

  • @johnsmith1953x
    @johnsmith1953x Месяц назад +6

    Please do a mock interview with
    (a) 1985 Commodore Amiga fan and how nobody will beat Commodore with the Amiga being sooo far ahead
    (b) Demoscene hacker

  • @norbertj.2180
    @norbertj.2180 7 дней назад

    you're so real. how can you be so true about the 80s guy and the 90s guy, yet you are so young. amazing.

  • @SolarPlayer
    @SolarPlayer Месяц назад +9

    Take me back

  • @Dustinson
    @Dustinson 27 дней назад

    Respect.
    Given and received.

  • @TimHoekstra
    @TimHoekstra Месяц назад +8

    "I found my gf on phrack magazine" those were the days 😂

  • @Basecase_
    @Basecase_ 23 дня назад

    This is the best one so far, absolutely nailed it

  • @djsmeguk
    @djsmeguk Месяц назад +4

    5:00 dancing baby gif was NOT full screen fidelity. You could see it in a tiny realplayer window on your massive 640x480 screen.

    • @SteveOnTheInterweb
      @SteveOnTheInterweb Месяц назад

      It would drop resolution on fullscreen to 320x240 or so then video would be 160x120 and doubled (there was no rescaling)

  • @ShapeyFiend
    @ShapeyFiend 27 дней назад +1

    When Windows 2000 came out and you didn't need to reformat every 3 months it was a wonderful thing.

    • @Puschit1
      @Puschit1 8 дней назад

      Windows 98 was also stable as long as you uninstalled programs properly, used defrag frequently and regcleaner occasionally. Unattended it went kaboom like 95 did but with a bit care Win 98 was pretty good.

  • @palvaradinagy6703
    @palvaradinagy6703 Месяц назад +14

    I still can't get the printer to work applies even in 2024 :D :D :D

    • @varadinagypal
      @varadinagypal Месяц назад

      @@JethroBodine1422 unless you run into a network printer, on the company network, that's visible to the client computer, but just refuses to print the test page. I mean... I gave up.

    • @thomask4978
      @thomask4978 Месяц назад +1

      Did you turn it off and then on again? 🤣

  • @ilmanti
    @ilmanti Месяц назад +1

    The monitor being rotated slightly sideways is peak 90s.

  • @alzeNL
    @alzeNL Месяц назад +3

    I'm still on IRC after starting using with a Demon Internet Dialup Account from 1994 :)

  • @IanSebryk
    @IanSebryk Месяц назад

    dudes. this channel is my crack cocaine. i love it because i've lived almost all of it. thank you for all you do. :D

  • @UnleashedCode
    @UnleashedCode Месяц назад +6

    NAILED IT

  • @handmadegamesdev
    @handmadegamesdev 27 дней назад

    This brings back so many memories :) Nice job!

  • @MasterSergius
    @MasterSergius Месяц назад +6

    Plug & Pray!

  • @nirnejak
    @nirnejak Месяц назад

    absolutely love your videos, keep making more

  • @mattmmilli8287
    @mattmmilli8287 Месяц назад +16

    I had a 6 digit ICQ, prob could have sold that shit 😂

    • @isleofgreg
      @isleofgreg Месяц назад

      I still do

    • @Agret
      @Agret Месяц назад

      ​@@isleofgregICQ shutdown last year

    • @isleofgreg
      @isleofgreg Месяц назад

      @@Agret oh shit that’s sad I didn’t know

  • @mamacoffeecat5542
    @mamacoffeecat5542 Месяц назад

    It's late December of 2024 and I'm watching this honour via headset with myself and a group of my friends all over the world so he's not that wrong

  • @TrackZero
    @TrackZero Месяц назад +7

    IRQ Russian Roulette, too real. LMAO.

  • @FisherGrubb
    @FisherGrubb Месяц назад

    I just love the 90s setup😜
    Brings back memories, I didn't know much about using them then, but yup, that's how they all looked 😁

  • @cramesplays
    @cramesplays Месяц назад +2

    4:3 aspect ratio - chef kiss

  • @Phyzzius
    @Phyzzius Месяц назад

    'Soundblaster 16 IRQ conflicts are a way of life' 😆
    This guy really nails every aspect on the topic he's covering, from the hardware, the things he talks about, the environment (like the beavis and butthead poster), even down to that good-old ICQ 'uh-oh' sound in the back. Brilliant

  • @bpa5721
    @bpa5721 Месяц назад +3

    This is not even exaggerated.

  • @MrKata55
    @MrKata55 22 дня назад

    If you're wondering about the song at the end, it's Koto - Visitors, just a part of it looped. Can't fool a 90s kid

  • @tiennou07
    @tiennou07 Месяц назад +3

    The Iomega click of Death

  • @MilMike
    @MilMike 29 дней назад

    I remember that magical time. Everything was so new. I started with Commodore C64, later with Windows 3.1 and then Windows 95. Everything was so revolutionary and new. I miss these times. At that time I started to code and created my own windows software tools which I distributed as shareware.

  • @bd32322
    @bd32322 Месяц назад +5

    A dot matrix printer would have completed the ensemble

    • @yetanotherbloke
      @yetanotherbloke Месяц назад

      I started a print job at 10:30 one night and woke up my parents on the other side of the wall. It was an assignment for school. I had to...

  • @p0r5ch3911
    @p0r5ch3911 29 дней назад +1

    "Video calls could be as easy as clicking a button..". Still waiting for that one. I mean it works mostly.

  • @annalinneajohansson
    @annalinneajohansson Месяц назад +8

    GEOCITIES!!! 🤘🤘🤘

    • @robertjenkins6132
      @robertjenkins6132 Месяц назад +2

      Those garishly colorful websites were kinda cool. The Internet is so bland nowadays.

  • @RogerValor
    @RogerValor Месяц назад

    you got a time machine, because you nailed my youth, and i know you can't have been there, but you successfully make me feel the same age as you now, which also makes me feel old.

  • @everaldopeixoto7634
    @everaldopeixoto7634 Месяц назад +3

    I was throw back 30 yars in time! Hilarious (and so true). Congrats! P.S.: OS2 was missing.

  • @zBones762
    @zBones762 22 дня назад

    As an 80's baby, I thoroughly approve of this message. So good.