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22 Things You Only Understand If You Used A Computer In The 90s – Part II

Why we loved the good old desktop compil back then – for all its quirks.
Author: Oliver Wietlisbach

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

https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/14372315

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

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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Author: Oliver Wietlisbach

Source: Watson

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