Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️Sometimes I wish I wasn't a retrotech reverse engineer.
Because see, if you're not one, you get to live 2025 without any chance of having to ever think about fucking MFC
I google "how do keyboard shortcuts work in MFC" and the little AI summary is like "foone, foone... It's 2025. You don't need to think about MFC. You're free. We're all free."
The best thing about being into retrotech is the 90s never ended.
The worst thing about being into retrotech is that the 90s never ended.
This also applies to other decades, of course. I spend most of my time in the 90s but you can retrotech into the 80s, 70s, or even 00s.
Windows XP is now older than the entire PC architecture was when Windows XP came out, after all.
I should make a list of things that happened in the "first half" of the PC's history.
Warcraft (III), Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, Prince of Persia (The Sands of Time), Grand Theft Auto (Vice City), Dark Forces (Jedi Outcast), C#/.NET, Firefox (aka Phoenix/Firebird), Steam, BitTorrent.
All are closer to the August 1981 release of the original IBM 5150 PC than today.
Windows XP is now older than DOS was when Windows XP came out
this whole thread is me procrastinating looking up how keyboard shortcuts in MFC, btw
Amber 
@foone read it as "HIMEN" and then went "haha that's funny that sounds like hymen" and was about to ask why you're touching your computer's hymen
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀
netop://ウィビ@foone And Microsoft has yet to release a better OS
brennen@foone jesus christ
Rob@foone please stop making me feel older than I already am 🤣
Aurynn Shaw@foone *collapses into dust*
André van Schoubroeck@foone lies! blasphemy!
anne.💫@foone Microsoft Windows Vista is now older than Microsoft Windows Vista when Microsoft Windows Vista came out
@ann3nova who are you who are so wise in ways of science?
Isaac Ji Kuo
Ted Spence@foone I'm gonna go with "yikes I am old" for this one
Jeremy 🇨🇦@foone seems rude and personal for you to post this
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Siguza@foone well ok, but in my mind Windows XP is only like 3 years behind DOS...
MicroBlog Castellano@foone And the libraries at Madrid metro subways still use it.
Fuxle 
🔜EF30@foone and still the best of I ever used
Prophyt@foone No! That's not true! That's impossible!
Jayne@foone *realizes me collecting an IBM 5150 running DOS is equivalent to a zoomer collecting a Gateway 2000 running XP*
recursive 🏳️🌈
C.... and it seems like half the digital signage you encounter still runs on XP, too.
Dreaming of dad jazz.@foone Windows XP did 9/11
Cegorach@foone but OpenMW doesn't need MFC!!! :-D
Annie@foone I began rejecting this understanding of time several years ago when Nirvana started turning up on classic rock stations.
Allan Chow@foone good Lord.
tautology@foone last year I had the 20 year anniversary of Steam account. I feel old. (That's not even my oldest account out there, not by a long shot)
grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Chris Lowles
Alexis Deveria@foone 😐 Most of those games are still on my "haven't gotten around to play yet" list. I played GTA 1 & Warcraft 2 though!
Coles Street Pothole
apophis@foone the fact that i keep seeing these sorts of posts and instantly crumbling helps explain why my room is always so dusty
Jonas Schäfer@foone nononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononononono. no.
no.
NO!
Jeremy List@foone to be fair: I played Prince of Persia on an Apple 2e.
Captain of the SS El Faro@foone computers used to be so cool
Charlie Stross@foone … Starting with the release of the Apple Macintosh! (Which was influential enough that the original PC is now extinct—all subsequent personal computers for the next 23 yers aped the Mac style of user interaction, and when they adopted a new paradigm thereafter it was another Apple imitation—the multitouch iOS style UI.)
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@foone foone stop, you're going to make me crumble into dust
Rairii 
@foone and since XP RTM'd the entire PC architecture has been ship-of-theseused into nonexistence
John S Russell@foone “Thanks for this information” I say, as I crumble to dust.
Ricardo Harvin@foone Blocked. Reported for abuse 😤😮💨
Wren 🐁@foone I don't like this
Simonoid@foone golly. I didn't want to feel old this early in the morning 😱
TillFun fact: Windows XP was the last version of windows, I voluntarily used. It also was the last version, that I installed on any computer.
Kjetil Kilhavn@foone I believe that is only true when you define PC architecture as *IBM PC architecture*. Which means you skip a few years of personal computers preceding the IBM PC.
Forgi 
@foone I think I just took psychic damage