That sponsor insert was as smooth as your shave. Well done! 😃

@@cleverlyblonde ahaha thanks

@@ActionRetro Oh cool! You got the rocker switch type used in the missile silo scene at the start of the movie WarGames as your power switch. Those are awesome!

Should have brought up a old mirrored geocitities web page

I appreciate you getting your sponsor and money but one of the best razor things I've ever bought was the Norelco One Blade. Literally one of the very best razors I've ever owned.

I was 14 when the same box came home from a book store. A couple of weeks later, I had an old 486 sharing out our dial-up internet connection to a few Windows machines over the 10Mbps LAN. Nothing's really changed... basically still doing the same stuff (only bigger) 25 years later! BackOrifice brings back memoies too... the joys of big flat networks at school :D

A friend gave me a book about Redhat 6.2 in 1999. He wanted to be a techy but later gave up and went into business. I installed it on a spare hard drive but I did not have a driver for the winmodem. I wasn't sure what to do and was too lazy to read the book. I swapped back the hard drive and went to Win 95, which I was familiar with. Nowadays, I run Kubuntu and do gaming, programing, video editing on it.

Cult of the Dead Cow's BackOrifice was awesome. Used the keylogger feature to get the dialup password at my school. Perhaps the most devious thing I've ever done before or since 😇

Winmodems were the devil. I also used AOL. Ugh, we didn't get proper dial-up internet service in town until '99 or '00. So my RH install went back to 95 pretty fast.

i remember having a super hard time in the late 90s with some suse linux (only god knows the version) that i tried to get IP-over-AX25 to run and failed miserably.. then some years later i tried again with mixed results. and now i run linux only and really learned to love it over the past few years and i became one of the go-to guys for linux questions in my job. but i only have great memories of the days using sub-seven... ay good times.. :'-)

please do this again with more linux distros

YES!!!! I would love see the old Mandrake, Suse, Debian, etc distros... Maybe even Lindows/Linspire (a very very weird short-lived project) and early Ubuntu.

@@d4r1us_drk I would respond to that by saying that Apple is anti repair. For example, they don’t provide schematics to 3 rd party repair shops. They don’t provide the diagnostic software. For example, they make deals with chinese manufacturers for their chips. They force them to never sell a IC to anyone else. For example, Apple shops don’t have technicians anymore. If you take you Mac to them, they ship it to Apple to have it repair. I think it is about controlling access to who has the schematics and repair tools. For example, they use obsolescence tactics. Reduce the performance of old iphones and claim that it is to prolong battery life. Make the battery non user replaceable. All other manufacturers are following Apple’s business model. In some models, weld the battery to the motherboard.

The only thing worse than Apple zealots is Linux zealots. And the only thing worse than Linux zealots is anti-Apple zealots. Just let people like what they like. I don't need a laundry list of reasons why you don't like something. If you don't like it, don't use it, and it should occupy 0% of your time / energy / headspace.

@@d4r1us_drk The thing is, "the right thing" depends on the person. I have a foot in all three camps. I've been a PC guy forever. I use Linux for all kinds of stuff. And I've switched to Mac for my day-to-day. I don't love that they're sealed boxes, but when I buy one, I buy it as a tool, for a certain lifetime, and I buy what I'll need for that foreseeable future. It's a different strategy than when I buy PC components, which I might try to buy with a mindset of using it in a "continuous upgrade" fashion. It would be great if Apple stopped trying to lock people in, and just let the luxury of their solid hardware and solid software do the selling for them. But if buy something with the awareness of it being a consumable appliance, then it's not the "wrong" choice. That's the part I can't comprehend about people. We all have different needs, expectations, and value propositions. There's something for everyone. By all means, put pressure on Apple to stop being such pretentious a-holes about the product's lifecycle. PLEASE do. But allow people to make their purchasing decisions without assuming they were just too stupid to know what they were doing. Some of us know full well the disadvantages, and decided it was still worth it.

@@nickwallette6201 "And the only thing worse than Linux zealots is anti-Apple zealots." ==I don't know any Apple zeolots but I have encountered Linux zeolots since I am into Linux now. Previous to that, I have been a Windows user since Win 3.1. It is rather unpleasant the attitude they have. If you mention a problem, they reply with it is fine, it works for me. It’s like other people, newcommers are irrelevant. They reply with: Why make a GUI version when there is a CLI, making a GUI is more work, making a tutorial that says to use the CLI is easier since the CLI is the same for all Linux (This isn't even true all the time), why doesn’t nVidia make their drivers open sourced (Dude, look at Windows. All the drivers are closed source and they work fine. This is because there is a DDK available.) All these problems are tied together. Manufacturers don’t want to open source their drivers. Driver’s contain their IP. You can’t force them to open source. Software vendors are not going to open source either: Adobe Microsoft, Corel, Inprise and whoever is left these days. Name me a software vendor (Not OS vendor) that makes the big bucks by open sourcing their products. Look at all the AAA games. All of them are closed source. People regard Linux as a OS for gurus. Probably online tutorials and the Linux zealots give that impression. Gamers: These are a portion of the population that probably knows how to install Windows. Why would they come over to Linux if the video drivers are incomplete or buggy or the game doesn’t run well. When your userbase is low, bugs have less chance of being discovered. When you userbase is low, your programmer base is low. Not enough programmers available to deal with the hard bugs. Game makers are aware that releasing a Linux native EXE for Linux is a headache. Too many bug reports and small userbase.

😂😂 yep

and it WAS GREAT!

Same here I came across Ubuntu back when they sent you free CDs so I ordered one and my Linux journey started from there

Learned like that with Ubuntu 12.04. Figured out how bootable USB drives were made the manual way and how to open iSO files on Windows XP using 7zip!

Different - yes, better? Quite questinable. Modern tutorials are more attuned to "formed" crowds, since they are the ones actually maintaining them, so the "little guy" that just trying to get in, gets overwhelmed by a circle references of those, or on the opposite end of the spectrum, learns nothing at all, because "tutorial" fails to explain anything and just provides something that "works". Those manuals had actually atleast some effort put into them, since printing stuff like this costs money, unlike crappy online tutorials, no one really cares about, since they are virtually free to post en-mass atleast. They were also atleast somewhat coherent, as in each part of the book atleast tried to adhere to previously established notions, since only a few people got to work on the book, but online tutorials, wikis, knowledge bases? They are more like a chaotic mess of knowledge barely held together by a somewhat coherent underlying structure, which is while apropriate for the theme is a mess to actually try and learn from. Not that they(aka those long ass printed manuals,books,guides,etc.) were great, by any means, and not that i would suggest that modern knowledge pieces should go up in flames, rather i'd say that books/courses/manuals that were specifically desgned by someone in general are a better way to learn any topic than just randomly stumbling on issues and googling how to solve them(not that the latter would 100% eleminate the latter)

@@Shonicheck Linux and open source apps are better in the sense that they can’t force you to upgrade. There is very little reason to not upgrade. I think most of is desktop guys do upgrade. The GUI is very customizable. I use KDE. For Windows, it is way to limited. MS seems to limit customizability with each Windows release. You get the source code if you care about that. I don’t. I have only modified the source code of 2 projects, for my needs. Another benefit is that open source software will never turn into a software as a service. The downside: Linux is a second class citizen. Most hardware companies ignore it. The open source AMD drivers are way behind Windows in terms of features, however, the performance is great. nVidia puts a lot of effort into their closed source drivers. You get feature parity with Windows. Windows is the king of the desktop. MS did a great job from Win 95 until now. A lot of those old apps still runs on Win 10. Installing apps is easy. Installing drivers is easy. Linux did a lot of catching up but still has a way to go. Also, Linux needs a API. Something that has a uniform look. Right now, I can tell that some apps are written in GTK and another is written in Qt.

same

Throughout the 1980s, people kept on saying that Unix was the next big thing but that learning to use "the commands" was "more complicated" than DOS. I think people just told themselves what they wanted to believe rather than pay proper attention to the observable facts. Still, it made for a few column inches in the industry press.

Around same time I also installed Ubuntu on a Compaq Presario Laptop that came originally with Windows Me.

I remember a years ago people revived phantasy star online and im pretty sure people still play

Hello world

I just did the same. :)

i tried running on the current Sparkylinux xsnow and xpenguins. they are in synaptic package manager but do not work on my LXQt window manager

Just last year, I dusted off a Windows 95 app called "Twinkle Bulbs" -- which makes your Win 95 desktop all festive for the holiday season. It asked me to register, so I found the author's new website and contacted them to do so. I never heard back. :-(

Wanna be hackers?

Cute icon! Is that a green Moomin?

@@kaitlyn__L Cheers! No it was from an iPhone game I made back in 2010 called Anagramalama Fear the Llama (not on sale any more - not an ad lol!). Close up does look Moomin-esque I guess - never noticed!

I miss Hastings. So many movies and video games rented there and books bought, and they had better prices than every other single focus store that could call itself a competitor.

You might be interested in industrial motherboards. They put all kinds of legacy ports on those to keep old machines running.

Those were fun times. I ran that on my Win98 box for a time before I went Linux only. I've been told that Windows' interface is still so garbage that people would love to replace it. Yet it's less customizable now than it was back then.

Cool story. My brother had high speed internet at his apartment back then and I downloaded Slackware that way. I actually still use it to this day and just yesterday finally upgraded for the first time in 2 and a half years to 15.

I am a woman in tech, and having someone named Megan make that comment absolutely made my day. You're an OG like me and we've been in the trenches.

Enlightenment was so nice ...

Enlightenment was such a promising project. If only they had stopped rewriting it every other week they might have released something great ... did they ever release anything past 0.16? 😆

@aaronperl enlightenment still exists & still sucks (I tried it on a tablet)

@@aaronperl yes, not sure what version they are up to now but I remember 0.17 took many years to release. Enlightenment 0.16 was amazing at the time though, fast and beautiful

Compusa and other big name computer stores sold box sets of linux and BSDs. As well as books and magazines about linux. The good ol' days.

I remember purchasing boxed Caldera Linux set and installing it on an HP computer. I couldn't get X configured on the integrated graphics so I ended up buying a real cheap video card and that did the trick.

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That ICL DRS 6000 was an interesting beast: SPARC-based and running ICL's own Unix implementation, DRS/NX, apparently.

Can't xconfig really break a monitor if the settings are wrong?

@@systemchris I believe it used to be an issue with older monitors

6.3 was release in november 1999 though :) 6.0 was released in 1998.

i forgot how noisy computers were then