Dude, you're 1990 versions away, actually. Upgrade a.s.a.p!

Windows 10 is the latest windows

nice dad joke lol

@henry stickmin fr?

its a joke tho ;-;

MarkusTegelane very useful when there's a close button on the top right

You can, but only on some applications. Newer Windows Apps & Some System Applications do not have this feature.

That's correct. Alt+Space still works, so does Ctrl+Esc.

Kevin Bhasi CTRL + ESC is for keyboards that don't have Windows key

So, CTRL+ESC today is for cool IBM Model M users out there, right.

How did they write .java then

@@scopestacker9787 they didn't

@@scopestacker9787 Because the Windows' file system changed to NTFS, and then it was possible to create files with 255 characters + 8 characters for the extension.

@@jonasferraz yes but Java already existed at the time where most computers ran Win 95

If I remember right, the FAT-entires only allowed 8.3 names, but they allowed longer names by cutting of the long name at the end and adding a tilde and a number at the end of name. The actual long name sat in separate directory-entries that did not follow the FAT-conventions (don't know exactly how that worked and I'm too lazy to check google).

4:14, people also seem to forget that you could still close applications in Windows 3.1 (and likely in this build of windows) by double-clicking the Control-menu (the one that this - in the left-hand side, it's official name IS the Control-menu). This functionality is still in Windows 10 for apps that still use have a Control-menu and have the icon in the upper left. I remember when Firefox got rid of their Control-menu, my YEARS of still using it + double-click to close apps was finally broken, and only then did I REALLY start using the X to close apps. The only reason I ever learned how to close apps in this way was due to Windows 3.1's built-in mouse tutorial. If you actually do the more advanced tutorial after the basic mouse one, you can learn this secret of Windows that no one seems to remember. From time to time when window positioning messes up and you have no other way to move a window, clicking the control menu and using the Move command that way is still a valid way to reset a Window position if it ends up out of bounds and unreachable via other methods.

@@TheXev if you want to go back to the control-menu in firefox, you can enable "title bar" in customization, which adds a native windows bar to the top of firefox, and its icon works as a control-menu

It only works on win32 apps

I think a few bits of the Windows code base hasn't actually changed since version 1.0

I never knew that existed still

@@bisquick3662 ordinarily you'd keep explorer running as there's no reason to close it

@@hanro50 interesting, i wanna find out!

@@hanro50 thats true the alt+tab code hasnt been changed but its design has changed (alt+tab existed in win1.0)

Windows 10 isn't a mess, everyone had Windows 2000 if you were interested in computers at all, even after Windows XP was released at least for awhile. And Windows ME is responsible for many modern Windows features we still use today and was only as bad as its base i.e. Windows 95/98 which were just as unstable.

@@donotryon9389 Windows 10 is horrific, what are you talking about? There's like three different interface standards fighting for dominance in this pile of trash.

ME and Vista had rough releases that were eventually patched to become stable and functional operating systems. But the initial experience is what is cemented in history for them.

@@anessenator 'horrific' and 'pile of trash' is a very extreme over-statement

Windows 10 can be pared down enough with visual tweaks and registry settings to behave almost identically to 7. The only time I have to mess with the new menu standard is the built in "night light" switch.

scorpian007 and I wasn’t even alive :(

@Among Us Impostor you shouldn’t even be alive with that username

Commuting was better in the 90s better flow of traffic

I remember it all too, seeing it all go from dos based to graphics and then the internet by the time i left school. How things really vamped up in the 90s and then into the 00s

yes , in classic theme it is a little icon depend on a program , but in new themes it is invisible, but still there :D sometimes i used to dabble click on it to close the windows :) it is because of win 3.x habit :)

@@intel386DX It's also in Linux distributions to this day. :)

only on desktop apps (not metro)

You can also doubleclick there to close the application, like you could in Windows 3.x.

@@smpark12 metro apps are mostly rubbish

Or create folders there.

Le Docteur nice!

I didn't know that, thanks for the info.

@@mojave5661 create folders? Now this is really cool

00:58

not wanting to sus you out but *50gb? in 95?* i'd imagine perhaps it was 5gb and even still it was a chonker, my computer at the time came with i think it was 350MB hard drive. everything else kinda checks out, 32mb ram was huge but not impossible in 95

That bbs that you mention I imagine likely doesn't exist these days. You think so too sini?

Wow, you were very tech savvy.

it did so back on Windows 3 as well

@@firerat1653 Those ones from Windows 3 1 functioned more like today's desktop icons.

@@hmwndp yeah, minimizing without explorer.exe also made them act like desktop icons (as far as win 98 or xp, not sure which and since then I haven't tried again). I do remember however, many leftovers (including full programs!) from old versions remained until Vista came out; the "oddity" was that some were 16 and others 32 bits at random

Thanks so much for the comment! Glad you are finding the videos informative.

@@MichaelMJD MJD! The January 1994 Bootscreen of Chicago is Fake!

Nope, you can still access that menu by pressing alt + space or right clicking the titlebar

​@@aadisahni Also, you can shift-right click on the application on the task bar. Didn't realize you could just right-click anywhere on the window header to bring up the menu.

@@Peekofwar yeah I'm surprised more people don't know about that since this comment section it filled with people taking about the icon

I use StartIsBack

@@IanDmitriyevitch same

Same

@@IanDmitriyevitch same

It seems like many people can claim various Windows versions to look like a Mac. Such as Windows Vista looking like Mac OS X and Windows 7's taskbar looking like the Mac dock, and such as Windows 11 looking a lot like Mac.

Hi, MajorSky17!

you can watch his videos on your weekend

well, yeah...

Yes he was, he needed Virtual PC 2007, most likely because it wouldn't run in VirtualBox.

Yeep, Those rounded top corners gave away that good ol' VirtualPC 2007 & XP combo right away

Ikr? XD

@@WalnutSpice Probably an XP VM as well!

Maybe he couldn't install the beta os on virtual box maybe he used a capture card to record the video. He really used windows xp

Thank you!

TheFake VIP I know right?

Well, Windows 10 has 3 buttons now.

I think it was very good decision. One button, one start... that’s why it was easy enough to use PC by everybody... you did not, know what to do, you get self teaching. Click start and it will teach you one the way... nowadays it is hard to tel. Dumb user press start or windows logo, they just don’t know what you are talking about...

@@TheKingTywinLannister yeah, the fact that it actually said "start" helped a lot. If people didn't know what to do then it was labelled as the place to start. From a design standpoint I supported the Vista start orb but from a usability standpoint I now think it was probably a mistake Though I was always bothered by how it said start but that was also where you went when you wanted to stop (aka shut down). Haha

+1

My guess is that in the underlying code the modern day taskbar is still functionally a window, with some specific behaviour that restricts positions, sizes, etc.

thank you! will do

What do you mean? Double clicking is how you open any file, folder, or program in Windows using a mouse...

J T good job finding the joke

Not so far, try to build nice computer with Win 98 and you will notice it's not so bad as people remember or as kids think. You can just turn it on and start using it, almost no learning how something works, try this with Win 10, old people without experiences with modern computers are totaly lost in Win 10.

Looks cool for the retro computing lover, but would look somewhat ludicrous in a present-day OS.

JanikTube HD I know it is finally old enough to drink

Agreed

MS-DOS was actually made by IBM as DOS (Disk Operating System) and Microsoft bought it from IBM and put MS which stands for Microsoft before it.

Ethan Stanis :O wow

...no?

You're wrong, Ethan. MS bought 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products (at $75,000). Then renamed it to MS-DOS. Some time after MS licenced MS-DOS to IBM under the PC-DOS brand. MS-DOS was never an IBM product.

I definitely want to do more historical tech videos this year! Stay tuned :)

6.3*

@@emily7289 6.3 is 8.1, 10.0 is 10. 10.0 is not a name, it's the kernel version.

Thank you!

Also windows 11 is literally 10 with a skin

What if Microsoft would call "The Wasteful" instead of "Wastebasket"?

I didn't even notice this video was from 6 years ago now