Monday, March 7, 2016

"It's a Dell...not the singer."

Teens react to Windows 95

13 comments:

MamaM said...

While I found the post picture off putting and almost didn't click, the video and the kids turned out to be fun. The dividing Oh-Wow moment happened with the awareness of no wifi, and the need for a modem and phone line to connect. It was well done, revealing how quickly things changed.

In the late 80's, we paid $2000 for our first computer with Volkswriter being the program I used for word processing.

ampersand said...

It's hard to gauge how "technically savvy" these kids are. OMGing and LOLing and downloading apps doesn't make you Steve Jobs.

rhhardin said...

I had a Hummingbird shell on my windows 95 so it looked like unix.

My newsgroup reader to this day is Netscape Navigator 2.02 from win95.

rhhardin said...

I still use dialup, but only as backup when the newish DSL dies.

Steg said...

Our first working computer was a Packard Bell. Probably around '95ish. I used to play minesweeper and some little kid math game. The best thing about it, though, was that it came with a CD music video. Weezer performing Buddy Holly in Ralph's Diner with spliced in footage of Happy Days. I probably watched that a million times. A decade later, Buddy Holly would be the first song I ever sing at karaoke.

Good times.

Rabel said...

We're doomed.

Methadras said...

Most people do not know, understand, or need to know how computers or how an OS works. All they care about is that you hit one button and viola, you have a series of icons that load apps and that's it. Any idea of inner workings is totally void of thought.

This is a blessing and a curse. Microsoft really did very well in utterly automating the computing process. Allowing total noobs the ability to actually use a computer with little to no fail. The curse of it is, is that it takes a lot of smart people to utter dumb down the user experience so that the dumbs can use them.

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bagoh20 said...

I think the change has been far too slow. When you consider the change that occurred in say 1895 - 1916, and without the modern worldwide technology and communication that should speed up change dramatically. We can't even get back to the moon, or balance a budget.

And hey kids, I have a new app for ya. It's called "Get the hell off my lawn!"

Amartel said...

There's a dog for that.

Leland said...

I still remember getting 3.11 and the ability to network two computers with an Ethernet cable. Then again, my first computer was an Apple II+, where every time you turned it on, you had to type the commands to recognize your floppy drive card, before you could mount the floppy drive, and then you could consider actually uploading a 10KB floppy and looking for a program to run. We also had a Timex Sinclair for which I had Flight Simulator on a tape cassette for loading.

bagoh20 said...

"There's a dog for that." Good one, Amartel.

In the 80, we used to run our company on IBM PCs with big floppy drives. I wrote programs in Pascal to organize and cost out the inventory with bills of materials. When we eventually got a 10 megabyte hard drive, we could run the costing program that added up the product costs from the components. It would take over night (8-12 hours) to complete. We used the same program for about 20 years on faster and faster computers until the early 2000s when it would do the same amount of processing in a few minutes.