Maven (famous)Windows 7
ZerlynaI preferred Yahoo Messenger to Windows solely due to the ROTFLMAO emoji… it kicked ass. Made me giggle every time I used it.
ZidaneYou missed out on hella custom emoticons. Had hundreds of "lol"s
HupfDid it kick the llama’s ass?
Yes!!!
It’s fantastic.
Surfing away with an administrator account.
girlfreddyTrying to teach my in-laws not to do that was impossible.
Maybe it was just easier to install those browser bars as admin.
That is the sole reason the UAC exists in post-Vista Windows.
Some Microsoft exec somewhere: “WRITE THAT DOWN”
They will distribute this image and say: “See? It has always been this way…”
Stefen AurisWhat’s it called when you backport modern features to retro systems like this mockup? I swear there’s a word for this…
Retroshittification
backtrackarrhea
Backport-a-potty
oh my god brilliant
It would be awesome if there was a community focused on that
Be the change you wish to see in the world
I’d call it techlapse
macnielDemake?
TimeSquirrelOk...someone do this but in an Atari 2600 theme. I wanna see what loot boxes and micro transactions look in 160x192 128 color resolution.
I think you’re looking for “anachronism”: A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists.
Patapon EnjoyerThe little shield next to the turn off computer icon implying it’ll update it without asking is a nice touch
tenchikenThanks!
I hate it.
Make thyself scarce, cur, less ye see the back of my hand.
You could substantially de-uglify XP with a different theme, but, damn…that ugly
Don’t care what anybody says about how much they loved XP that shit was always ugly.
Which one did I like? ME?
idkmybffjoeysteel [he/him]Functional though, you could just open your start menu and find what you wanted immediately instead of typing to search for it like I have been doing for the last 5-10 years
Which one, black or silver?
Homestead
I had a cool grey and orange theme it was sexy
Thanks, I threw up a little.
jelloeater85What the fuck is wrong with you… No… Don’t you dishonor my house like that…
Looks like ads in the start menu aren’t anything new.
Edit: I’m dumb, but I’m leaving my comment here.
SSJ2Marx [he/him]Instance blocking doesn’t block comments?
𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬That is correct. Your instance needs to defederate from the other instance to also block comments/users.
User-based instance blocking is actually just hiding posts from that instance. It does not hide or block comments made from users of that instance on posts that are not coming from that instance.
Well TIL I learned
Recall snapshots back to 2003, damn that’s crazy
Those msn searches 🤣
It’s missing filling the start bat with a massive Copilot box and weather/news widget. Or maybe missed an opportunity to make Clippy the AI assistant.
I love-hate it.
windows has normalized all that shit so well that this image is genuinely disturbing compared to the win 11 start menu. I am glad my windows days ended years ago
kunehoSince at that time these shits weren’t really normalized, I can imagine some people would actually like these things and maybe even use them.
I like this image - it is really nicely done. I don’t like what it represents, but the image itself is decent.
I remember seeing AOL on Win3.11 (I had been using telnet, pine, lynx.) and it looked like a bunch of spam ads.
Given that this was the prime time for Bonzi Buddy, I’m inclined to say I agree with you. People chose these things years ago, because it added more to the experience outside of “here is your word processor, here is notepad, here are the three games you have to play”.
And Bonzi even was a 3rd party thing. Now imagine that shit, just built into the system by that time. 😅
Heck, even MSN Browser was a thing and I’m pretty sure just because it said “Good afternoon” or some shit when you launched it.
Zerush
ColdWaterWoah cool website, I don’t how’d you know about this but thanks you
How? Using Internet since more than 25 Years result in only ignoring the most new pages.
Nice, even moving the computer into the trash worked as expected.
Even a community in GitHub with forks, mods and plug-ins.
That’s kind of overwhelming to me. It’s like there’s no bottom to that rabbit hole. I love it and I have so many questions.
AussiemandeusI love this, I wasted so much time on my phone. The Playstation start up sound was amazing. I need to open it on a conputer
Half-Life 3 confirmed
Oh yeah, that’s gooooood…
The Doom (Gafa 3D) really works like the original, with some “differences”.