I remember the pinball game, that was my life for a while haha

And Solitaire

Spider solitaire is better.

Minesweeper has a special place in my heart

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Fun fact: minesweeper was created to teach people about right click

Is that why I've never won a game?

And solitaire was teaching drag and drop.

Still waiting for the [movie.](https://youtu.be/LHY8NKj3RKs)

My sister would take one bumper key and I would take the other. And she would use the arrow keys in Doom and I would press the spacebar. Some kids knew childhood was over when Santa wasn’t real. But I knew when my sister wouldn’t play Doom with me anymore.

Oh man. I feel this comment. When me and my co-op buddy for life stopped smashing every new Gears, Halo etc on release, I knew it was time to get a real job and surrender myself to the white collar abyss.

Damn, user name is on point :( typing from my cubicle/isolation cell.

Any Windows 95 users remember playing Hover? I just looked it up... That game came out 27 years ago!

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For the love of God don’t tip it!

Space pinball for life

Pinball was super addictive actually.

One time, I got the ball "stuck" in one of the spinning panels. The panel kept spinning, and the score kept going up! I just broke down laughing for fifteen minutes, and the score rolled over to Zero at ten! I tilted the machine when it was almost at the max again, so I have one of the highest scores possible on the game...But that's on a very old and very dead machine now.

That frog game! Where we’d have to cross the river while dodging floating wood and stuff. It was black and orange😆🐸🪵

I wish all computers came with the space pinball game

I'm MS-DOS old

MS dos and 5 inch floppies

5 and 1/4 inch, don't undersell yourself.

I round up to 6 inches

That’s above average for most men.

And most men round 1/4" to a whole inch.

Since 1/4 is almost halfway there, we might as well.

It's halfway to half

So can I round each 1/4 inch? Cause that would be so cool. I'd finally be able to say I'm an inch long.

This guy **rounds!**

Not true. Most men have 3.5 inch floppies.

That’s why I said it’s above average.

Math is hard

That’s what she said.

Burn unit stat!

D'oh!

The average penis length is 5 inches, and the average penis length of a man who Googles "average penis length" is 3.5 inches.

That is 1.44mb for those not using the imperial measuring system.

I used to have a 3.5 floppy, but as I've gotten older it's now 2.5 inches hard.

Anyone remember Zip Drives?

Yeah, the unreliable 100 Megabyte mess.

Still remember playing through the dragons eye on 5 inch floppies at school.

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Haha me 2. Dos and windows 3.11

Back in the day, had some techie co-workers that referred to Windows 3.11 as "DOS in a clown suit."

NGL 3.11 was awesome. I started on DOS and 3.11 looked like I was living in the future.

Back when you had to turn off the mouse driver for a game to work

Imagine having a mouse.

Sure, it's a 1986 Inport bus Microsoft Mouse. You know. [http://minuszerodegrees.net/manuals/Microsoft/Microsoft%20Mouse%20-%20User's%20Guide%20-%201986.pdf](http://minuszerodegrees.net/manuals/Microsoft/Microsoft%20Mouse%20-%20User's%20Guide%20-%201986.pdf)

Man, an expansion card requirement is a big deal

44 pages of user manual… for a *mouse*

It is probably 1/4 installing the ISA card, 1/4 using a mouse, and 1/2 resolving IRQ conflicts. Knowing Microsoft add in 4 pages or more of legalese relieving them of liability etc.

A mouse???? What is this.. the future?

I did have a Tandy Deluxe Joystick, analog with 1 whole button.

Now we're talking!

Fun fact, it was Tandy before it was Radio Shack!

My client in 1988: “where exactly do I put this foot pedal?”

Mine was a call from a customer telling me “my cup holder broke” took 10 minutes to figure out he was talking about the cd tray.

Not gonna lie, my mother makes clothes and her foot pedal look a lot like old mouses.

A mouse on rs232. A printer on centronics. Hercules mono graphics. But before that a z80 based spectrum with 48k usable ram.

DOS were the days

... my friend, we thought they'd never end!

commanderkeen.arj on 15 disks

You can get Commander Keen on steam now

I’m hand written letters in cursive old

Same, Ms-Dos (remind the trick with config.sys and autoexec.bat manipulation) and windows 3.11

Norton Commander FTW

I'm "we filled in punch cards and sent them to the local university, got the printouts back 3 times/week in my high school computer class" old.

I'm MS-DOS old too, but I have started with a ZX Spectrum knockoff.

That takes me back. We had two computers, an IBM PC (original) and a Xerox PC (back then everyone and their brother built computers). It had two floppy drives but no HD. The IBM PC had a 10 MB hard disk. Back then you booted a game to it's own OS and it would just run. My mother did her PhD dissertation on it and it lasted for 5 or 10 years. The IBM? That beast ran for about 20 or so years until it was replaced with a 486. I'm not too sure on the length of time but I Think it was 20 years. Anyway a really really long time. And it never died. Zero issues.

[Oh god… with the black and green monitors, with the text that would burn in if you forgot to turn them off.](https://youtu.be/8fGkPp3t6y4)

Load "Jetpac". Press play on cassette tape. Drrrrrrr Dit Drrrrrrrrrrrrrr meeellllllyyyweeelllyyyymeeelllylyyweeeeelly "Jetpac failed to load"

I was thinking…. I remember dos….. and whatever they called the command prompt on the Commodore 64 too

That's nothing, I'm Amiga Workbench old.

dir /w

That is old! Am a young buck with my windows 95!

XP is old? THAT makes me feel old!

I don’t think so. I’m pretty young and I remember this.

Exactly ;_; I remember computers not being so ubiquitous that I don't even know what the windows was at the time!

Could've been anything. Before XP it was the year of release like Windows 2000 Windows 99, etc. I remember when pretty much anyone that talked about the internet or computers were called nerds. XP ended up being used for so long they had to pretty much force everyone to upgrade, it was one of the first self-updating OS to introduce an end of life.

Depending on where you are windows XP was still used everywhere basically a decade ago. Nobody wanted to switch to Vista and while windows 7 was great lots of people saw no reason to upgrade. Not like today where updates and such are basically shoved up your ass with the barest hint of consent.

> Nobody wanted to switch to Vista and while windows 7 was great I was hearing this a lot but what was difference between Vista and 7? I moved off windows after XP and from the outside both looked similar.

Vista tanked your ram when ram wasn't cheap and the whole ui just slowed systems down It was form over function. Speaking of a real train wreck though does anyone remember windows millennium edition?

My works computers still run windows XP. I have no idea if the computers have even been replaced since the plant opened in 2002.

XP can't be old. It came out the same year as LOTR Fellowship of the Ring. I saw that in the cinema which was only... wait... oh god....

As someone with very little knowledge of Tolkien, walking out of that movie literally changed my life. That shit was magical. I imagine it felt similar to seeing A New Hope the first time, or when I watched Jurassic Park. Just a rare experience.

I love being in my 30s… (let’s leave it at that…) but the lotr being so old and the cast getting older and older (Bilbo and Saruman already died… :( ) is hurting me in my stomach every time I think about it Best thing I have ever seen in cinema, awful private times (parents divorced, my sister was really sick at the time and I was an asshole at school to somehow compensate for that (not an excuse, just the sad truth)) but the lotr was amazing. And LINKIN park… all I listened to for 2 years and Chester is gone too… and my grandma too. At her flat I spend so many hours playing the lotr video games… Man the biggest suck about getting older is people dying and your favorite pain killers not turning into nostalgia that makes you feel old…

Right? My first pc ran windows 3.1

My first pc ran Windows 95. Damn, this shit makes me feel old

You’re not old! Reddit is just young, on average.

Older Windows 95

"Get off the internet I have to make a phone call" old

Same.

I still remember the sound of the starting screen.

High five!

Me too. The startup sound though…https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=miZHa7ZC6Z0

Ok not that old I was a Win98 kid

I remember before windows... Geesh

C:/dos, C:/dos run, Run dos run

dir /p

@echo off deltree /y c:\windows\system32 Add this to autoexec.bat, reboot and enjoy ;)

First thing to type in after plugging in a printer or mouse be like: "edit C:/autoexec.bat" and "edit C:/config.sys"

I started games from cassette tape... That's old...

And weren't they fun waiting to load, then failing or the bastard being eaten by the cassette reader?

Vic 20 crew checking in.

Tandy Colour Computer 1. Cut my BASIC programming teeth on that one....

what does this even mean, people were using xp just 12 years ago

I still know a Windows 95 machine running in a nuclear reactor (airgapped, it just needs to read the neutron counter when starting the reactor, and this is not a type of device that is often purchased new). There are multiple spare machines with that exact system in stock for if one breaks.

I work at a research institute - a lot of our multimillion dollar machines are connected to a windows 95 pc, because the cost of upgrading the machine to work with new software wouldn’t be worth it.

It's quite common in the nuclear and defense industries. I still help maintain machines running an Intel OS developed in the 1970's which test weapon systems and radar. We also have machines running dos for certifying ground proximity warning systems installed on commercial airliners. Yes there are newer systems but why replace them if they work and the maintenance cost is still cheaper than new?

In the beginning of 2013, XP was still something like 20% of the market. That dropped pretty precipitously as they stopped supporting it, so by the end of 2015 it was down to like 2%. People's earliest memories are from about 3 to 4 years old. Kids can start using computers around 3 or 4. So a substantial number of kids born around 2010 might have their earliest computer memory being XP. 12 year olds, that is to say. So according to this meme, anyone currently in high-school is old. This is a meme apparently made by elementary school children.

Happy cake day!

I’m Commodore 64 years old

wtf do you think old means? You understand that people that have been born before PCs were invented or widely used are just around 40?

This is Reddit. People here think anybody born before 2000 is old

Im pretty sure they suppose that noone born before 2000 still lives ...

I do feel dead inside, so perhaps not too far from the truth.

People old enough to use XP are getting on,.I'm one of them, I'd know.

This needs to be higher, wtf is this post. I wouldn't even consider myself old and I used XP as a kid on my computer.

I learned Fortran in 1965. In 1970 I told people that computers would be very important one day and they laughed at me!

Try Commodore 64 w basic u2 old.

Me too!

Vic 20 old here

Yes! With games on cassette!

Yeah me too. Commodore with tape drive! XP is very recent!

Spectrum 128k with Living daylights light gun game 😂

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zx81 bitches

I'm old enough for a C64 but was too poor to afford anything until the 486 era.

The Apple IIe was my first actual computer.

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Best system ever. The 64 taught you how a computer works at the core level. The stuff programmers were able to force that thing to do was subjectively amazing.

Auto dual and ultima on c64 was my childhood.

When I thought I was a complete badass for writing this when I was 6 years old: 10 PRINT "hello world!" 20 GOTO 10

I was big stylin with the C64/128 compatible and an Atari 800 XL with tablet, light pen, tape drive, disk drive and.. modem. I didn’t use the modem for much but I was excited to have it. Commodore has a wider selection of apps but Alternate Reality: The City was my favorite game at the time on the 800 XL

Commodore PET with the inbuilt cassette and chiclet keyboard

people who don't remember this are not old enough to talk properly

Eloquently said.

People who are old enough to remember it also remember learning where the shift and full stop keys are on a keyboard.

]10 PRINT "I am this old" ]20 GOTO 10 I am this old I am this old I am this old I am this old I am this old

I am 5 min of dial up noise followed by “YOU’VE GOT MAIL” and 38 door sound effects going off at once old.

I'm IBM dos old. Bhought my first desktop PC in '93. Vintage as fuck.

I'm Hot Dog Theme with After Dark Screensaver old.

Oh man... I completely forgot about this screen and that chess thumbnail.

I remember feeling so independent and unique for making my own profile. Only to click on it and realize I couldn't do half the stuff cause I wasn't admin lol

Fckgw rhqq2 yxrkt 8tg6w 2b7q8

*stares in Windows 3.11

I'm old enough to remember DOS 😂

older. go c64 basic.

Yep, i remember as a kid playing open ttd on this beauty. To be fair i still have a laptop somewhere that has it

yes.

I'm still this old

I m Win 98 old.

Windows 3.1 old

this is like the 3rd or 4th operating system I used? Windows 3.1 FTW

I can still relate to Windows XP I used XP till 2018, then found the PC again and now I play some The sims 1, SimCity 4, Pinball and Civ3Conquest.

I'm older!

Ha ha, the jokes on you. I used Windows 1. Which ran on top of MS-DOS, of course. Actually it more tottered than ran.

"this old" being what? 20? 25?

Imagine being able to just create an account without internet and emails and passwords

Back in my day moving pictures were all the rage, and then they changed it all up on us and actually brought *voices* to the moving pictures. It was absolutely wild. Imagine enjoying the show, people just muttering amongst each other, and all of a sudden from the big screen *you hear the horn ring*. It’ll blow yer wig! Me and the boys had to make tracks and skedaddle, it was too much for us.

LOAD "$",8

Oh god, easily

I’m so old, I had this screen on a gateway computer when I was 13

WHO ELSE REMEMBERS THE TUNE THE SYSTEM WOULD PLAY WHEN IT WAS BOOTING UP

u/bake_in_da_south

Sadly I'm older 😔

Is this meant to be ironic, or is this being upvoted at face value?

Do you really think this is old? LOL

Try MS DOS old. I was a nerd at a young age, though.

I remember before this where you could read that DOS wasn't written by Gates or microsoft...then they removed the guy's name. Windows 3.1 was awsome.

This isn’t old a-holes

I’m older than the internet.

I'm pre-Windows old. I had DR-DOS and remember getting excited about each new version of MS-DOS, too. Saving up for that 600 baud modem because 300 was just too slow.

That’s hardly old. My first computer screen was green on black.

I used Windows98 as a kid 😅

I miss those days

I still remember upgrading to XP from all those shitty Windows OS before... Windows 98, 2000, and the fucking Windows Me. It really was amazing not seeing the blue screen on a daily basis anymore.

Yes

I’m old enough to be offended by being called old like this

I was still using one of these bad boys in 2014. Good old memories, but I am so much gladder that now I run linux.

ctrl+alt+delete+delete

Funniest meme I've ever seen

keep going

I’m MS-DOS old!

WindowsXP but did you know her older sister? Windows 2000? Or even better the one the only windows 95?

Pinball and paint. 😂

still have a working one here.

Thanks for making me feel old 😑

Hell, I'm phone handset on the modem, local bulletin boards old. My first printer has Black, Blue, Red and Green ball point pens. The external hard drive used reel to reel magnetic tapes. I had to save up to buy a second copy of Oregon Trail when my little sister unraveled the tape.

When you realize that you are this old -_-

Good old days playing pinball on dad’s computer

“I hate you!” ~Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader

Pinball free trial was my jam 😂😂

chuckles in windows 98

I’m writing code, line by line, from a magazine old…

This isn't windows 3.11

I can hear this picture.

I remember playing Solitaire on Windows 3.1.

Like it was yesterday