You will never go back

>>106182970 (OP)
>that desktop
words cannot describe how much i'd hate that user

Impossible to conceive back then (let alone believe) how bad things would get

>>106182970 (OP)
>Zoo Tycoon

>>106182970 (OP)

My parents had just gotten divorced when my mom bought us a family computer. It was neat first but that divorce spiralled her to alcoholism so I can't even think of windows XP era without getting PTSD symptoms. Then again it never really got any better.

>>106183095
It's your mom being a piece of shit that caused the divorce not the other way around.
I was quite miserable at that time too so I'm not sure I'd live it again if I could.

>>106182970 (OP)
what a shitty os

>>106183574
yo mama

>>106182970 (OP)
>deviantART: DramaC...
I miss the old DA.

>>106182970 (OP)
The startup sound used to make me so anxious and afraid, I can only guess because I knew it meant I had to do work. Meanwhile Windows 98 never did because I'd just boot it up to play games.

>>106182970 (OP)
Bros I wish I died in the 2010s

>>106183495

Not putting this on my mom fully, my dad is a narcissist. Really emotionally heavy. They are both people who shouldn't have had children. All in all I'd say it's 60-40.

>>106182970 (OP)
See that island? You can go there.

>>106182970 (OP)
Stop making these threads you idiot

>>106184388
why is there so much garbage in your tray

Windows 95,98,2000,XP,7
>Emulation (for 95 or 98)
>Linux DE with themes (piss easy on xfce and KDE)
>Modern windows with hacks that adds those themes

>Flash
ruffle (even supports AS3 now)

>Old MP games
They're all playable, just get some friends and make a server

Winamp
>vlc with winamp skin
>Audacious with skins

You can pretty much still go back and avoid all the modern shit

>>106182970 (OP)
Good. It was slow and buggy as fuck, and did nothing Win2k didn't in half the memory and disk space.
When /g/tards shoot their baby duck loads all over XP, they're not doing it over the gold code - it's SP3 they're romanticising, which came out years later when hardware had caught up to this pig.

>>106186101
this
I really want to understand what type of faggot creates these "nostalgic" threads
I don't remember them being here just a few years ago, there were only generic "windows spying" threads

>>106183095
Windows XP would cause me to spiral into alcoholism as well, especially if I was troubleshooting an IT problem for some poor fucker who decided to run it on their machine. In terms of security, it's notoriously full of more holes than Swiss cheese. Run it offline and side load apps from a flash drive. Only hook online using a proxy or VPN and if you you clearnet just run Firefox with the right settings and give it the benefit of the doubt. What's this thing with it being hacked "as soon as you connect it to wifi" this is an outrageous claim that zoomers came up with to LARP a knowledge of technology like they are some hip goth emo hipster nerd like in those animes with the nerdy kid with the big ass glasses typing in a terminal app on a desktop like he's a member of My Chemical Romance or something to that effect

>>106182970 (OP)
>You will never go back
I can't go back if I never left.

>>106182970 (OP)
>>106183066
That zoo tycoon icon sent me back man. What a game.

>>106182970 (OP)
>slow as fuck start up
>slow as fuck internet
>slow as fuck game load times
And thank god for that

>>106186708
I was too young to remember that. I do remember websites loading super slow, but mostly I just remember pretty start up sound.

Very sad

>>106182970 (OP)
>tfw browsers dont make sounds when you click links or click "back"

windows xp was kino until your computer lost power while it was shutting down

>>106182986
Not enough things that end in (Copy)(2).

>>106186708
>things definitely not caused by old hardware
8/8

>>106182970 (OP)
Jasmin's a 304. I connected to that shit's port with my 1-pin connector and I got a virus.

>nostalgic for XP
It was fucking shit. It was only halfway decent after SP2 and Windows 7 and 10 were miles better.

SAGE

>>106187610
yeah the op's screenshot does NOT make me nostalgic lol

>>106182970 (OP)
In a month I will visit my mom's. So I will.

P4 3GHz
1GB DDR
ATI HD4670

>>106186101
yeah it was a performance downgrade from 98, i hated it at first but after SP3 it grew on me. 7 was the best OS they ever made anyway.

>>106187805
I miss 7 so much. It got the Aero feel just right, while Vista had a strange Dark Aero feel about it.

>>106182970 (OP)
AI will code that for me in a few years

>>106186101
epbp
/thread

>>106187818
the darker colors made vista's visual style easier to look at imo, and they hadn't yet dumbed down the taskbar for touchscreens

>>106186197
that claim comes from a youtube video in which a windows xp install was connected to the internet and people misunderstanding what he did (he allowed anything to go through without any firewall, which you'd have to go out of your way to do, thank the nsa for not disclosing eternalblue btw)
>>106186101
i don't think everyone necessarily had an older computer back then, i had the very first intel mac mini and (after the firmware updates that added support came out) it ran windows xp quite nicely, my cd is for sp2 and sp3 didn't exist yet at the time

>>106186708
First two have to do with hardware and your connection, third can also be because hardware because you're an idiot

>nostalgia for botnet
What happened to /g/

>>106188726
freetard loser

I'd take the UI of XP over 10/11 any day. I miss when things had color, depth, contrast and all that shit that made each element stand out.

>>106188161
The first (Intel) Mac Mini was released in 2006.
When was Windows XP released again, anon? Hell, when was XP SP2 released?
And remember, this was back in the days when computers doubled in speed every 2 years.

>>106182970 (OP)
>never going back
>time marches only forward
it breaks my heart honestly

>>106184388
No matter how hard you try, you can't go home again.

>>106182970 (OP)
Who told you that?

>>106185388
You can still use winamp on modern PCs, you know.

>>106186708
The start up seems pretty fast to me. Even on my P4 machine with a mechanical hard drive. Same for load times.

>>106186893
I've had plenty of power outages while using my machine and it never caused me any problems, aside from unsaved files being lost.

>>106187610
>Windows 7
fair
>Windows 10
In what universe is that steaming pile of shit better than XP?

>>106190022
Windows 98 was still supported until 2005. Its never been a good idea to try and run new windows versions on an old PC. If the machine came with 98, you stuck with it until you got a pc built for XP. Something with 512MB of RAM and a 2 GHz processor would run XP perfectly. Even 256MB was fine for the first two service packs.

>>106190772
Lol

There is like a thousand windows and they are all new, some fit some needs and are even free online, I tried windows ten dumb office worker edition on a pre gpu pc and it runs, can't even change the wallpaper

>>106189284
You tell him xister!

>>106186101
>did nothing Win2k didn't in half the memory and disk space.
This was my impression as well. Feels like people forget about Win2k