Why we loved the good old desktop compil back then – for all its quirks.
Warning, you are about to get very nostalgic. Who remembers these beautiful moments?
In the mid-1990s in almost every household
How we turned on the PC
It was the time when everyone suddenly had a homepage that looked something like this…
… and that’s how you dialed in the internet
But first you needed a buddy who was familiar with computer stuff and who could configure the modem under Windows 95
If your new desktop PC came with this warning sticker
Your parents’ home office in the 90s
A PC game came on several discs
And if you had to reinstall Windows 95 😱
A few years later…
LAN party in my colleague’s basement 😍
Everyone used to be playing first-person shooters all of a sudden
And a few years before that
When you’ve spent hours defragmenting your hard drive to make the compi work faster again
If you tried to enter safe mode when starting Windows
When you try to enter the BIOS menu after boot pic.twitter.com/oLh7TyzoVi
— José M Sánchez 🤔 (@Josemas) November 6, 2022
If you felt like a hacker if you knew three DOS commands
Upgrading a PC in the 90s: Almost as hard as open heart surgery
When you suddenly had a lot of new friends at school because you could burn CDs for them
Your Spotify in the 90s
How to perfectly organize your MP3 collection
And finally: what was installed on almost every PC at the time
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The nostalgic sound of the 90s when you start up your PC. 😁 pic.twitter.com/4Ox1f3d676
— Alvin Foo (@alvinfoo) June 15, 2022
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I’m Ella Sammie, author specializing in the Technology sector. I have been writing for 24 Instatnt News since 2020, and am passionate about staying up to date with the latest developments in this ever-changing industry.
