Thread 106498181

Computers used to be great. Even just starting them up used to be an entire event. It was both exciting and calming all at the same time.

Now, modern PCs startup within 10 seconds after which you're constantly bombarded with ads every 30 seconds.

>>106498181 (OP)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W44FlUqxjik

>>106498181 (OP)
i think its wrong to have nostalgia THAT far back. i loved the internet/computers when it was just closed off "secret club" forums, passionate people making stuff like myself. you dont need to go back that far back for when it was great.
the feelings you describe here about it being exciting and calming was just the novelty of it all. but you are totally right they wont get that feeling of discovery because theres phones, laptops lying around everywhere

>>106498181 (OP)
Libraries used to be great. Even just driving to used to be an entire event. It was both exciting and calming all at the same time.

Now, modern ereaders startup instantly and you're constantly bombarded with ads every 30 seconds.

Thirdworlders ruined the internet

>>106498181 (OP)
>>Now, modern PCs startup within 10 seconds
I fucking wish
I swear my PC 10 years ago booted faster than my one now that's way more powerful with much better hardware

I would swear shit launched faster too and I didn't need a fucking 240Hz screen to see it

>>106498440
try linux?
i dont experience that kind of thing with it

I had a buddy who's dad had a computer and he left the Turbo button inactive, I showed them one day what a difference it made and what the intended use was and their minds were blown.

>>106498181 (OP)

you still can disable fast boot choose no manufacturer logo etc in bios

Nigger i clearly remember hard drive booting times

>>106498393
Racism has ruined your brain.

>>106499028
He's right. Browns ruined the internet.

>>106498181 (OP)
>bombarded with ads every 30 seconds
That's entirely on you for using windows 11

nostalgia is a hell of a drug

>>106499088

listen and watch youtube with loonix wonder why people complain about ads

>>106498181 (OP)
>computers are lesser because they turn on faster

>>106499145
this

>>106499028
estrogen ruined yours kek

>>106498440
>>106498907
>>106498477 try linux?? (DURRRR SOMEHOW THAT STOPS THE IME FROM RUNNING DRUUUUUURRRR DFURRRRRR)
It boots up an entire Minix instance, to spy on you, first. Installing linux won't help, retards.

You fucking people don't know this?
That's what that now very long pause before your bios password (when pause is set to 0) is all about: Minix booting up, so you can be spied upon.

Fucking ZOOMER RETARDS.

>>106498181 (OP)
Ads are the pinnacle of human innovation. They are the singlemost important factor in driving capitalism.

>>106499299
i see this image occasionally.
what is its significance?
what is the history behind this image?

>>106498209
> I think it's wrong
Using computers used to be a calm solitary experience which led directly to mastery on a deep level. Normies were nowhere to be found. The fact is, if you weren't smart or at least patient, early computers were not for you.
This meant that computer culture was, by default, filled with smart or at least interesting people.
So, yes, you do have to go back that far, because after 1995 all of that began dying. The culture held on until 2007, when centralized social media and the smartphone took over and obliterated everything.
Now we live in Retard World.

>>106499406
I'm barely old enough to remember the internet of the 00s before smartphones and social media ruined everything.
Holy shit it was so much better back then.
It really did all go to shit after 2009. Big time. That's the year when the internet became the complete pile of enshittified garbage that it is today.

The internet just fundamentally felt like a different place before Facebook, Twitter and iPhones became popular. That's when hundreds of millions of normies and third worlders came online, and they rapidly drowned out the culture of the old internet.

>>106499398
It's an avatarfag posting it to signal that its him.

>>106499028
>It's all the same machine, right?

Minorities, normies, women. If you say one little thing, you make a shitpost on a forum, and the next thing you know, it's misinterpreted on all social media, the essential component of a death machine. I was right! All along, since 2016, I knew it! I told you, Anon. Nobody's ever going to call me paranoid again! We've gotta get out of here and blow the lid off this thing!

>>106499406
you know what these pictures are from? they're so incredibly comfy

>>106499853
id Software

>>106499892
that's way cool
I wish I had a whole album of photos like that

>>106499406
Some aspects were better the fact things were gatekept but thats it. Its better now.
>>106499459
i blame zoomers

>>106498181 (OP)
>Now, modern PCs startup within 10 seconds
maybe yours
my top of the line DDR5 ram sticks ensure that booting my PC takes at least 2 minutes

>>106500257
Lmao, still isn't there like an option to only have to do it once and have it be remembered for next bootups?

>>106499922
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIBRr31DIU

>>106498209
>Knowing stuff was my personality type.

Anyone notice how this doesn't happen anymore after Google/AI/Wikipedia? You can no longer be "the computer guy" or "the science guy" or "the guy who knows sports stats" or "the guy who told jokes he saw on The Simpsons". Because now everyone knows these things at all times.

Is that why the Internet created so many trannies? Just a sweeping identity crisis the took out every midwit?

I'm not being a hater, I used to do the same thing.

>>106498181 (OP)
I remember the dos days.
Men that was something i still have my old DOS book and disketes. Niggas today don't even know what WordStar is.

>>106498385
>Now, modern ereaders startup instantly and you're constantly bombarded with ads every 30 seconds.
Skill issue.

>>106498209
These places still exist. Morons.

>>106498181 (OP)
when i was growing up, the computer teacher told you not to give your real name on the interent. after the banks took over, it became upload your ss# and drivers license to the internut, overnight. that is when it went wrong.

>>106501693
yeah but then shitskins like you invaded them all to death
see this very low iq reply

>>106498181 (OP)
Well, that's not necessarily true for every zoomer. I learned PDP-8 assembly as late as mid 90's just for the sake of it (the machine had long obsoleted by then but I never touched a switch panel before so I thought it'd be interesting), and along with it I had to get acquainted with other aspects of the mini just to get it to an operational state.

A zommer can (and much more easily so) pick up legacy pc's from eBay, learn about them and enjoy them.

>>106499398
It is a paedophile named Mike.
He paid people to create a mod of LadyHavoc’s DarkPlaces that is some sort of schizophrenic world building FPS quake clone.
LadyHavoc revoked his license due to his insane stalking and harassment campaign against her. He has subsequently found his mod banned from nearly every quake mod hosting site on the internet.
Last time he tried posting a link here it was some random filesharing site. Nobody will click and download the game.
Now he spams bullshit about his pedo fantasies.
Just ask him how it felt to get assfucked by LadyHavoc

>>106498209
>they wont get that feeling of discovery
I'm not sure why you'd think that given how different the hardware and software of these old machines is.

>>106498181 (OP)
Install Linux and you can relive those experiences.

>>106501956
because theres no magic?
OP describes a feeling where it was special because it was new.
that means, me, we, grew up for like 14 years or whatever with no technology. so when we did finally get to interact with some, it didnt matter how slow or shit it was, it was all so new and amazing.

a zoomer is never feeling that, from birth, he has screens and devices available. all super fast, no patience has to be nurtured or developed. no prolonged satisfaction. he will never know what it was like before.

heres an exercise you can do, think of an ordinary object around you, like a pen. completely boring and normal too right? zzzzz?
well think about how you would feel as someone using a pen for the first time, back then?

>>106498209
>THAT far back
You need to go way further back than 1993 if you want computers to be a secret club of passionate people again. That ended sometime in the early 80s. The computer industry has been commercialized to hell since the early 90s and the internet since the late 90s.

>>106502193
Nigga, the UK had the BBC Micro program in the early 80s to try and get the UK caught up to the USA in technology. The government purchased millions of pounds of PCs and also hosted TV shows for more than a decade. 8-bit computers were mainstream in the USA by 1985 when you could buy an Atari or Commodore 8-bit PC for less than $200.

>>106502193
youre just wrong bro.
internet was fine until some huge jew megacorps told everyone this is the new normal and everyone is going to be on them 24/7
im not going to collect a bunch of shitty PC junk get over it kek theyre tools.
tools to talk with people.
people used to be good.
then jews remembered they exist to destroy good things.

>It's another "old good new bad" thread.
Why do the Russians push this bullshit so hard? The current situation with hardware and especially GPUs is pretty bleak but we have fast computers and internet, and access to like decades of software and games. We can just plug in whatever shit we want into our PCs and it will probably work without bothering with jumpers and installing drivers manually.

Fucking subhumans, I can't wait until they get nuked off the face of the earth.

>>106499922
Grab a cheap P&S film camera and start shooting.

>>106501957
Troon detected.

>>106499406
This picture was taken at least 10 years (and more like 15) after "early computers" arrived, that were on nearly every normie's - and a lot of children's - desks.
It blows me away how much of /g/ really thinks the universe began in 1991 or something - while simultaneously calling everyone zoomers.

>>106498181 (OP)
You just miss your youth. That is all.

I'm not bombarded with ads. that's a luser problem.

If you crave that startup experience you can build a desktop with a floppy drive. Not hard and doesn't require a floppy header since USB exists.

You can even get one of those Gateway AT tower cases and do what casemodders did at the time and stick modern guts therein. I still have one I upgraded to an ATX Soyo motherboard and a PIII 1.2GHZ though I don't use it.

>>106498385
>you're constantly bombarded with ads every 30 seconds.

Anyone serious would block the adverts or simply avoided ereaders since they were not available that far back. I'm not bombarded with anything since I know how to use a computer.

>>106499299
>It boots up an entire Minix instance, to spy on you, first.

Paranoia is a delusion of personal importance. Your real security is that nothing you will ever do or be will ever be important. Why do you imagine you need "security" from all these spies? The voices in your head will end if you kill yourself.

Uncle Sugar pays me and is welcome to watch whatever I do because I would never be stupid enough to use a computer for "secure" comms, but your lot craves that too intensely to simply not do that.

>>106502560
Install TempleOS then and wallow in teh crazy.

You're not special. Get over it.

>>106501853
>LadyHavoc’s DarkPlaces

>>106498181 (OP)
AI is superior to the past.

>>106498181 (OP)

Still have a little armada of 90ies PCs and love every single one of them. The only downside is the CRTs lifespan... some day they'll be gone.

>>106499406

The Golden days - love it!

>>106503390
I have refurbished dozens of monochrome tubes over the years and that's about the hardest part to service. I think a lot of them out thete can still be salvaged. Color ones can either be shot or re-vacuumed, but that's about it. I've also been moderately successful in replicating crt's with magnetic bearings, lasers and mirrors.

>>106503344
>formerly LordHavoc
every single time

>>106501173
>You can no longer be "the computer guy" or "the science guy" or "the guy who knows sports stats"
Yes you can. Search engines and AI still don't accurately replace expert knowledge. Even outside of deep knowledge or esoteric minutia that hasn't been widely discussed online, there are often knowledge and contexual pre-requisites to even knowing the right question to ask a search engine/AI and understanding the result you get.

>>106502012
>we, grew up for like 14 years or whatever with no technology
Nah, that's bullshit. You had TVs, phones, the radio, tons of buzzing and whirring electronic things and gadgets. If you grew you in the second half of the 20th century, you had more access to breaking news from all around the world, more easily accessible music stored in tapes/compact discs, more books, etc. than literally any generation in history. You say you didn't grow up with technology, but really technology is any kind of human invention, so your ass is fucking lying.

You will never be a boomer. You have no pithy one-liners, you have no retirement properties, you have no riding lawnmower. You are an IPA-chugging sóyboy twisted by finasteride and SomethingAwful into a crude mockery of society's wisest.

All the “respect” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back zoomers mock you. Real boomers are still embarrassed and ashamed of you, your parents laugh at your pitiable net worth behind closed doors.

Zoomers are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed the youth to sniff out poseurs with incredible efficiency. Even millennials who “made it” come off as insecure and simply lucky to a zoomer. Your mail-order gook wife is a dead giveaway. And even if you two manage to get to old age without divorcing, she’ll turn around and get power of attorney over you to throw you in a nursing home the second you forget where you put your car keys.

You will never be happy. You smile through back pain every single morning and tell yourself you're better than stupid zoomers, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.

Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll shut the garage door, turn your car on, put Jar of Flies on full blast, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your little siblings and nephews will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They'll sell off your Funko Pop and anime girl figurine collections for a fraction of what you paid for them, and every collectible scalper who tries making a buck off them for the rest of eternity will know a millennial manchild was their first owner. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a microplastic-saturated skeleton that is unmistakably more frail and underdeveloped than any of your predecessors.

This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.

>>106504000
youre focusing on all the stupid semantic details while the point goes over your head
back then i was still fucking around in the woods with my friends, riding bikes, every day every weekend. playing legos. yes video games existed. yes i even had a shitty family pc but it wasnt ever so prevalent that it is now, where kids dont even wanna go outside unless they can use it to take a video quickly and go inside to post it for social cred

>>106504178
>outside
too expensive, full of shitskins, or both
these problems are zoomers' fault of course

>>106498181 (OP)
>Computers used to be great. Even just starting them up used to be an entire event.

imagine missing the long boot time.

>Now, modern PCs startup within 10 seconds after which you're constantly bombarded with ads every 30 seconds.

Sounds like a boomer needs to learn about adblock and piracy

>>106498181 (OP)
friendly reminder that:
- most ledditors are millennials.
- millennials created spotify, facebook and a lot of other evil tech companies.
- most "oldfags" on 4chin do nothing to save their dying website because they would rather brag about how they are superior because... they just are, okay?
- millennials refused to reject the hell of modern computing, known as "mobile devices", and now blame zoomers for the same thing, just like they refused to do something about boomers ruining economy and xoomers ruining human relationships.
maybe next time when you are looking for the person to blame on why we live in semi-cyberpunk dystopia, take a look at the mirror.

>>106500044
>internet went to shit in 2009
>I blame the generation that was in middle school or below

>>106504526
The creators of silicon valley were gen Xers and in many cases boomers.
We are just now seeing the first millennials enter the space with AI and Web3 fags (and to your point, ALL of those people are evil garbage)

>>106499299
>"muh intel management engine"
>he doesn't know about the guy making custom microcode/chipset updates
>he doesn't know about the motherboards with broken firmware that lets you neuter it
>he doesn't know about just buying a ripoff chinese 10gig nic where they couldn't be assed to implement the backdoor and using that
literal non-issue

>>106500257
most motherboards only need to do the training on first boot after no power, if you don't unplug your pc every night you should get a 10second boot too

>>106498181 (OP)
>you're constantly bombarded with ads every 30 seconds
Not on my machine

>>106499028
2010 internet was cool. Then the amount of Indians in English speaking spaces increased rapidly, and it now sucks.
>t. actual boomer

>>106498181 (OP)
Ah yes, I certainly miss the good old missing drivers days...