Young People Try Windows XP

[@windowsxpprofessional]

Aha. They are trying me finally

[@nottoxicroz1213]

Pause

[@S.I.M.P]

Też tak myśle kolego

[@DJRGYT]

Bro was waiting for this moment

[@nexovec]

can we pin this please?

[@PMitchell1011Real]

​@@nottoxicroz1213 just boutta say that

[@toufusoup]

It blows my mind at 2:08 that Elijah is a year older than me but has never used BOTH operating systems that made up my childhood as a 1999 kid. Usually it’s people under the age of 21 but I guess I’ve found an outlier.

[@DaimyoD0]

I cannot BELIEVE he is 26. I was thinking he was a lot younger.

[@MINEZ461]

im 23 and ive used from win 98

[@simonfredheim9581]

Yeah how has he never used windows 7 even? I guess his family just didnt have a pc? But even then what about school computers or pc-s at the library? This guy just avoided pc's at all cost?

[@NottJoeyOfficial]

Windows XP was my first ever OS, Windows 7 is my most used OS. I'm also 26. That was insane to hear, guess he was in an Apple or Vista household lol.

[@joester4life]

@@DaimyoD0 He's 26..? He looks damn older than me. And I just hit 40.

[@Scarlet_Soul]

4:07 Them trying to open a CD case was just painful

[@abekurianisac9159]

@@Scarlet_Soul oh man! Felt a chill run down my spine 🥶

[@_S_P_A_C_E_M_A_N_]

*crunch*

[@MadMaxGyver]

The fact that adult people who have never opened a CD case in their lives exist, man that was brutal, I feel very old..

[@MrCed122]

Yeah, I hate that stupid boomer joke of "youngsters don't know how to open a book", but man, they were right on that one. Like... it's a CD case, you open it, there's no steps or anything, did they never opened a DVD / Blu-Ray / Playstation / Xbox / Switch case before? They're 18, no 6, they should know something as basic as that (and don't get me started on the whole screen saver thing, XP and 11 are identical on that aspect and they still managed to do it in the most convoluted way).

[@leeward6762]

Youth is no excuse for that. 😂

[@Seed]

2:09 How the hell has Elijah never used windows 7 lol.. He’s 26..? 1998? Was he a mac user or something..

[@Henrex2000]

not even in school?

[@Seed]

He was 13 when 8 released.. Had he never used a like computer outside of school before being 13 lol..

[@jackbro655]

He probably skipped it, i kinda did the same thing, i used mostly WinXP Machines and only used Win7 on my mother's laptop, later when I got my own laptop it had Win8

[@joelneedham4548]

@@jackbro655 He said he hadn't used xp either though lol

[@BabaSmithVideos]

Yeah, kinda interesting. I'm the same age as him and we had our first computer in 2005 with Windows XP

[@eagle_and_the_dragon]

"young people" I didn't know I was old, I'm only 22; I was raised on XP.

[@partechild0221]

I'm 36...I grew up with Windows 95, 98, and 2000 before XP was even thought about xD

[@ChristianPierce]

same

[@SegunSMBProd1999]

@@eagle_and_the_dragon so true me as well I grew up even in school lol the 26 yrs old probably didn’t have a computer when he was younger hand families with windows because even in his time this was a thing.

[@RandoWisLuL]

@@partechild0221 i mean that would only follow suit with your age though, anyone in the 34-36 range will have that experience. But someone born in the 2000s using XP whilst growing up? definitely odd.

[@_S_P_A_C_E_M_A_N_]

Go to bed grandpa (I'm 23)

[@yaneproduction]

As a 20 year old it's hard for me to imagine 17 year old never touching Win XP since I grew up with this system. Loved to destroy my desktop in a flash game

[@Sol4rOnYt]

im 15 and i've used windows 7 and xp so idk what these man are doing

[@chassycy]

@@Sol4rOnYtfr

[@arianamirgholami9555]

I'm 23 and I had 98 for my personal computer for many years

[@chrisr267]

@@yaneproduction How did you grow up with XP? By the time you were old enough to even reasonably use a computer, Windows 7 or even 8 was already out. A solid 2/3 versions of windows after XP. By that time, computers with XP weren't even sold or supported by manufacturers.

[@username-mb2qh]

Windows XP was pretty much the dominant OS up until at least 2014 and even after that it still retained some relevance for a while. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s still used in some institutions at least. Honestly I reckon just about anyone of double digit age encountered XP at least at some point.

[@lolzlolz69]

8:23 Requiring the disc in the drive to run was also an attempt at piracy control.

[@Masterrunescapeer]

Most games did this, downloaded cracks for my own games so didn't have to take it out the box all the time.

[@stephencoakley]

Effective, too, for the average user... though not all CDs had very good copy protection and you could just duplicate the CD pretty easily.

[@CyFr]

​@@stephencoakleyuseful for when your disk got scratched all to heck

[@stephencoakley]

@@CyFr yeah we made copies of many game CDs as a backup in case the original was damaged. At least once that came in handy.

[@stephencoakley]

@@lolzlolz69 Another thing you could do was make ISOs of the disks and mount them with Daemon Tools. Several programs were not smart enough to recognize that it wasn't a real CD drive and then you could use the software without the disk. The first Halo was one such game if I recall...

[@muuhnkin4611]

Not knowing how to use an old OS is one thing... But that try to open the CD case was just painful to watch, especially since game and bluray cases open the same way. We're not that far into the streaming age that the young ones shouldn't know how it works.....

[@virpatrakar1404]

2:12 "Plouffe [young at heart]" LMAO

[@AustralianMurderTurtle]

He has a monitor.

[@ThePizzaMan_]

"This would drive me crazy [because it's so slow]" It wouldn't though because you wouldn't know any different! That was the beauty of it. This felt so fast to us oldies, because everything else before that was slower and/or more obtuse!

[@ikkuranus]

Exactly. Flash media existed in the XP era but it was tiny in capacity, slow, and expensive.

[@DrewDoesThings]

They are also most definitely using SSDs in the systems built for this too, judging from one of the comments they made. It would've been even slower usually........

[@r0nam145]

Why did he try to open the CD Jewel case like a Christmas Cracker?!

[@WayStedYou]

because hes never seen a CD case before

[@joshuadelaughter]

Did Elijah not have a computer until he was 18 or something? How has he not even used Windows 7? I'm a year younger than him and I grew up on XP.

[@_S_P_A_C_E_M_A_N_]

I'm confused too. Even if he didn't have one at home surely he used one at school right?

[@drewb63]

i have friends who's parents only had macs in their houses growing up, so he's probably just less familiar with older windows

[@WayStedYou]

And also at the same time knew what the pipe screensaver was in XP despite never having used it or I presume 98/95 that also had it

[@vordt4139]

Lying for camera lol

[@ImJBlu]

Not expecting a 9/11 reference within 30 seconds

[@hakerananasek]

I lowkey thought he was about to turn it into a sponsor...

[@JamesBD05]

​@@hakerananasek"...flying in, like our sponsor!"

[@CoreyArsenault-c8t]

How tragic

[@CoreyArsenault-c8t]

9/11 which was a inside job just like our sponsor ltt stores

[@bobowon5450]

I'm 28, grew up with xp. i remember it fondly. have recently had to tech support it and use it again, it's horrible, i hate it.

[@raypol1]

How the hell Elijah never used win xp ? I am 27 and I worked with XP till I was like 18-19 years old in my school and windows 7 until the very end of support at home.

[@_S_P_A_C_E_M_A_N_]

5:44 How does Elijah not know this? Thats like the ome thing CDs are known for aside from that they spin

[@olivesouch6423]

Windows XP Virtual Machines: Are you sure about that?

[@kaispunjani9146]

how did bro respond 1 min after a vid released 8 min ago but its a 14 min vid 😭😭

[@Soundwave142]

Exactly what I did!

[@J-wm4ss]

Windows XP Mode!

[@nikitastaf1996]

Probably. Running windows XP on something even relatively modern is impossible

[@Soundwave142]

@@nikitastaf1996 Yes, because of the drivers.

[@Jeel.02]

0:12 excuse me, the WHAT?

[@UCMENOTx]

@@Jeel.02 Pygmy three toed sloth 😅

[@InfectEdHeart1998]

I was gonna say Ice Age

[@jacob042]

Am 23 and grew up on 3.1, 98, and XP… not sure how there are older folks who haven’t used XP 😅

[@ravagetalon]

I could see you using Xp, but how in the hell did you "grow up" on 3.1? You're either the child of techy parents or you're lying.

[@HelloOnepiece]

@@ravagetalon I mean he could be easily be from Eastern Europe or some developing country, up until windows 7 we were constantly behind

[@S1TDOWNK1D]

dude ikr, im 22 and cant believe that there are people who dont "know" how to use XP

[@cheelams]

@@ravagetalon i can see that tho, i was a child in a 3rd world country and a son of a IT engineer, soo i used windows 95 and 98 when i was 3 years old. I can recall there was a computer in my house that had an older os tho. Maybe it was DOS because it was text based but i am not sure, because even my father dosen’t remember what it was. He used to bring a lot of computers from work to repair and some of them were there for months soo i believe thats when i get the memory from.

[@Lead_Foot]

A lot of people can't afford even a basic pc and may have never touched one until later in life.

[@vincesettineri]

30 year old here, XP was the best operating system hands down, I still miss it today.

[@FSAPOJake]

Windows XP felt so comforting and homely in a way no other Windows OS ever has. I miss the 2000s.

[@grimm4944]

Opening the CD was so fucking PAINFUL

[@S28426]

I was -4 when XP came out and I have to say seeing him trying to open a cd case was something else.

[@cybertonto72]

They forgot to mention when it was released, most drivers didn't work for it. I remember getting an XP machine and most of my games didn't work, along with my joystick and controllers. It took a few months for stuff to get updated, and I was thankful for the internet at that stage

[@haroonmohammed742]

Today appears to be make me feel really old day, just finished watching a Technology Connections video talking about MP3's like they were a relic of yesteryears (where he also used a Windows XP PC to rip CD's) and followed with this one. Edit: Watching this video I've realised I don't use my PC that differently to how I used it 20 years ago, I don't rip Music CD's anymore but not much has changed, instead of CD DRM we now have Online DRM, the browser is better, programs grab data from servers now instead of the CD, but for how I use it, it's not much different, though don't use Control Panel as often as I used to. Win11 might be the first OS to make me do that.

[@Wahba.]

Just saw it still to watch it tho

[@ryanA133]

Its okay to be old, some people dont get the opportunity so cherish it

[@syaieya]

It surprises me just how reliant on a constant internet connection weve become in a short time. My cell signal at work is near 0 so it feels like im transported back to 2007 with preloaded podcasts and an mp3 player at the ready. Even bluetooth headphones werent accepted until post covid

[@bowserkoopa1088]

pffft "feel really old day" lol I didn't even HAVE XP. I was on Win95 till I got a win98 laptop as part of a scholarship for college, then mostly used that and second hand tower that I had Win 2000 Gold (I think "Gold" was a Beta release or something") basically up till I got Windows Vista. (right after you could no longer get XP). What made me feel old (and I also watched the Technology Connections vid right before this one) was how much it angered me when he said pinball was the "hot new game" that came with that version of windows... lol I'm pretty sure I had that pinball game as part of Win 95 (might have been part of the Microsoft Plus upgrade for win 95 that came with all the windows themes).

[@rockoman100]

I just want to clarify, when Elijah said "Don't do that, by the way" when referring to ripping music from KZbin using an MP3 ripper, what he meant was "Do it, just don't tell anyone we told you to"

[@MasterOkojo]

Elijah's never used Windows XP? What? I'm 27, and it was used in my (Canadian) schools up until 2014.

[@AthanImmortal]

5:40 Elijah treating CDs like he'd watched the marketing material around them when they came out. :D Anyone else remember that guy rubbing the bottom of one with a coin?

[@AlexLassaMusic]

Vids like this makes me realize that im not "young" anymore...

[@mark4795]

@@AlexLassaMusic Just wait until they make one for windows 7...

[@willwunsche6940]

I think most young adults that are 21-22ish now have used XP. Going into the computer lab as a kid. I never used Vista. But XP, 7, (less so) 8, (less so) 8.1, 10 onward were extremely common

[@SimonZerafa]

Get them to use Windows 2000 next. They will be shocked how good it was 🙂👍

[@bowserkoopa1088]

as long as you don't want to play games... I remember Win2000 was not great with games. I think they hadn't figured out how to get games to run right with NT kernel yet.

[@bkabosskrishnaagarwal5843]

I'm 21 and I'm feeling so proud of myself that I can do all that like a pro 😂❤

[@ZackMuffinMan]

I was born in 2001. I used XP, Vista, 7, and 8/8.1. Currently using 10. Only used 11 during my last semester of college for like 2 days. One of my friends used XP until EOL in 2014 when we played Minecraft back in the day.

[@robertfallows1054]

I was in IT when it wasn’t even called that. Starting in 1980 I was in the beginning of a computer based local newspaper chain. I’m 72 now and I continued in IT until I retired. PDP 11 and dumb terminals all the way up to MAC laptops for each reporter/employee. We became MAC based in that sense but it was a mix. Windows XP was more for the accountants and administrators. Funny to look back on it now and see the evolution. If there was anything commonplace about the day to day - nothing ever really worked as it was promised. Always a work around was required.

[@AlLiberali]

Elijah scares me. I'm 21 and I still have my 98 SE install on my old hdd

[@brandongers]

Why..?

[@carfo]

1:08 Linus' massive head casts a shadow--nice touch

[@Kevinmageddon]

Even though I'm gen z, my mom had Windows XP on her computer and we had them at my school so that's what I learned to use first.

[@ryanlaffan1397]

im 26 and I know all of this like the back of my hand, I feel weirdly educated in my times

[@iseptimus]

Unless these "young people" are about 5, I'm not accepting it. Windows XP was only yesterday. /proceeds to turn to dust.

[@kingnick6260]

@@iseptimus 😂😂😂

[@baldmenwin9591]

I still have an unused copy of XP. 😮

[@aokaze-minotaur]

I had no idea Elijah was the same age as me. He looks like he’s in his 30s.

[@Densetj12]

i am 14 years old and i know all the stuff that Elijah didnt know 😂, love from a teenage Italian fan

[@thingbing3092]

23 yo here, my grandpa still uses Windows XP and has the same family computer in his office from back when I was in elementary school. I'm way more comfortable with 7 though since that's what the first computer I ever owned had on it.

[@tonylarose4842]

@@thingbing3092 make sure he doesn't get hacked 😬

[@svsguru2000]

The day they do a "young people try windows 10", I am climbing into the swiss unalive pod.

[@Stouker4]

As a 19 year old, windows XP and 7 were the best versions

[@TheGlitchyMario]

I’m about the same age as these people, and I still know XP like the back of my hand!

[@Exilum]

Elijah is older than me by quite a margin but yet never had any contact with a big part of my childhood, it's quite interesting in a way. Multiple CDs, installed software that needs its CD to run, going to all programs to find your program because you don't have that much of a choice, the whole copy/burn thing that took you an entire afternoon, internet speeds that meant every action was very significant... As rosy as the past may seem, it wasn't a good time. I've yet to see the rest of the video but of course I can't not mention a classic: applications that constantly ask for admin permissions to start. (great tshirt though I looked it up and bookmarked it)

[@talonhackbarth7652]

I'm 20, I legit had an XP till I was like 13. Also, part of me died when he couldn't open the CD case.😭

[@AlbertBuckinghamEllison]

I was a 95 to XP Millennial transitioner. XP felt so fresh, smooth and intuitive. I later upgraded to the lesser known 'Media Center Edition' which looked even better on my Toshiba Sattelite A105 with it's glossy 4:3 screen, all the ports you could want and a DVD R/W drive. Damn, those were the days.

[@jdmaxi187]

Imho windows 95 is the most iconic. It was a game changer

[@Alias_Anybody]

How young do you have to be? I was born in 1998 but because literally nobody adapted Windows Vista, that's what we had in school to learn typing on. Of course I have far more memories of Windows 7, but still.

[@smilealchemist4325]

Elijah is older then me and HASEN'T used XP? I loved it

[@akraken9057]

He hasn’t used 7 and I think that’s more insane

[@ANDERSONGARCIA-tb1gx]

bro ain`t no way that dude tried to open a cd case like that, I get that you may never have used it but jeez... ☠💀

[@manojsahu-hr9qe]

This was the best era. Change my mind

[@AustralianMurderTurtle]

Plouffe's all "I used it back in 2000" when it was released in 2001. Hell back in 2001 in my local lanning scene we were installing win2k at lans.

[@MinerAC4]

I may be 19, but as a vintage computer connoisseur, I literally own three Windows XP computers. My Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 for the win!

[@jajssblue]

Most important XP feature is it wasn't ME

[@josht4901]

50 seconds ago?? That’s how old I was when xp came out

[@sp3edstr]

You should do a video about Windows ME 😂 … my SONY VAIO laptop I got for college in June of 2001 came with ME and I honestly never really had any issues - though I feel that I was the only one lol 😂

[@panagiotispappas1001]

I’m younger than them and I grew up with windows XP because my family used to have an old Fujitsu laptop. I just turned 17! Good times back then!

[@heroclix0rz]

"What's the point of installing the program if I have to re-insert the disk anyways?" It's an early form of DRM. Disks on consoles have worked this exact way for over a decade now.

[@stormtechofficial]

Windows XP is almost blissful for me.

[@iamtimsson]

bc the bg

[@ChronoXShadow]

Control Panel is WAY more intuitive than separate and sub-menus. Everything you need is right there, and it leads to sub-menus. Well, in Vista and 7 they eventually had sub-menus in Control Panel. But still, that way of doing things is much more intuitive.

[@bill4331]

half you audience was not alive yet

[@Vortex001_MLG]

10:36 IT’S NOT TRUE I DID NOT HIT HER! Oh hi Mark!

[@ashu4853]

Is this re-uploaded? I remember they uploaded this in past!!

[@VanpyroGaming0]

Wasn't that a Windows ME version?

[@Metal_Maxine]

No, but they did one with Apple OS 7 where Horst helped Sarah.

[@krstklos7621]

there was one with win 98

[@ARandomInternetUser08]

That was the Windows 98 video...

[@bogdanstefan83]

41 here. used DOS 6.22 with Win 3.11 on 386. used DOS 5 on a 286. i didn't know i was old. i found out i was old by watching YT Shorts where PCs with 2GB of RAM were considered old. i really love those videos, it's like going back in time.

[@bobbenson3861]

Win Xp was a horror show! It made win 7, which followed, the all-time favorite win version. I run my current win 11 version with a win-7 interface.

[@Lightning_Mqueen]

Does it fix search too? Because holy hell windows 7 search is infinity better than 10s and 11s

[@ARandomInternetUser08]

Now that's a hot take if I've ever seen one.

[@whyyshovel420]

No i am not getting deja vu, you are.

[@iambenmitchell]

As a 21 year old, windows VISTA and 7 were the best versions

[@chrisripley154]

VISTA?!?!? 🤮🤮🤮

[@pureexile1702]

@@chrisripley154 vista was good. a lot of what made 7 great are in vista. the problem was almost all pc's where to weak to run it.

[@jacob042]

As a 23 year old who grew up on 3.1 and 98… I don’t get how no one has ever used XP or earlier before 😅

[@notagunfreak8146]

Vista is considered one of the bad windows versions, just like windows 8.0

[@Capp0]

Windows xp goat

[@selim_ct]

This was the first operating system I ever used and it sure was something special, no matter what happens in this video. But I would still consider myself “young” at 22 😅

[@iamthatakhil]

This legitimately makes me feel old lmao. As a 28-year-old, I've used Windows 98, 2000, XP, and everything since then..

[@SecretSauceyjuice]

In 2017 I worked at a major pharmaceutical company, and although the process was in motion to shift everything to Win7 and the majority of PC's were already Win7 (either from being upgraded or just because the instrument was newer), a startling number of PC's and instrument controllers on the network in the labs were still running XP.

[@AzKbassist]

7:45 Wasn’t that long ago, but GTA 5 was 9 disks on PC.

[@NeonVisual]

Wen a "multimedia PC" was a new thing, before which we didnt have any way to transfer video or audio that was more than 1.44mb, and memory cards would lose of their data if the batteries on the device ran out.

[@carfo]

windows XP was great. I played so much Brood War on that OS. Only 7 years ago my work was still using XP on some of their machines =X

[@DragonyCat]

Was born in December 1997. Have used XP and 98 even, too. Played the Pinball game a lot because we did not have Internet back in the days. Have used old Mac devices and their OS's, as well...

[@raylf3141]

I ran 2000 pro throughout the xp era so I skipped it entirely. They were basically the same except that 2000 pro ui was basically the same as 98se.

[@omff6329]

Remember, this is what it feels like for old people to use new technology!

[@Joaftheloaf]

Just turned 30, windows XP is 100% my strongest childhood nostalgia trigger

[@Zeitgeist6]

As a Windows user since Windows 95, I think XP is still less obscure in where stuff is than Windows 11. I've used Windows 11 ever since it was released for free, and I'm still occasionally lost trying to find certain functions. 8:29 This is not a thing of the past either. If you have a PS5 and want to upgrade a PS4 game to the PS5 version, you also still need to have the disc in the drive to be able to play it.

[@A1RA]

i'm 19 years old (turning 20 next week), windows xp is older than me, but man I have so many fond memories on xp. i've used it for quite a long time, only jumping to windows 8.1 back in like 2014, completely skipping windows vista and 7. i still think it was the greatest windows of all time (though i acknowledge that some improvements in modern windows, like the task switcher, search, better explorer navigation, etc. are superior to xp), it just had the charm that modern versions of windows no longer have. but funnily enough, i still kinda live by the old ways. i still have an optical drive (2 now infact) in my pc, i do go out to buy physical media sometimes, now getting into bluray for the first time, and i have ripped and burned a disc in recent times. love hearing them initialize on power on, combined with a motherboard speaker, really does sound like a pc from the early 2000s or 90s powering on also, 4:11 was so incredibly painful to watch

[@AssailantLF]

Those are totally James's kids. They both look like him and the boy even has a similar voice.

[@GumusZee]

5:54 That's James in a wig doing a funny voice!

[@NeonSlice]

In italy, our computers had Windows 95 when I went to middle school, in 2007

[@meebstatic]

I was among the few families that had two home computers in the early 2000s and the second one was in my room, but I was never allowed internet access on my device. All I did was mess around with what came preinstalled with xp. There was very little I could actually use it for but I still had a blast. I still miss that thing to this day. Thanks for the blast from the past, though!

[@Stefan-g4p]

I bet the dinoaurs used it, not even you!

[@Blue-cq2hl]

I started 95 and used every iteration since and believe that I still couldn't navigate through xp fine lol. Unlike Elijah though I do know back in the day your discs only read like 6MBps lmao. It's hilarious remembering a lot of these things.

[@JoeStuffzAlt]

Dave's Garage did a great series on Windows. Windows consumer versions were much more hacked together, but they ended up being forced to base it on Windows server code, which was much more stable. The server code sounds like it might be slower, but there's actually a chance that reliable code is faster

[@zah465]

I worked in a school IT Department when XP was big. Teachers used to leave the big classroom speakers cranked right up and the unified startup sound was deafening when we had to mass logon the machines for anything. Also how on earth has Elijah never used XP, wait... Never used 7???

[@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow.]

As a young person, I've played around with Windows XP since literally as long as I can remember using technology. I've always been a tech nerd but my first interest as one was older technology and XP was just the start of that.

[@gsestream]

win10 still does not run window manager on a potato. regression on the window manager. not accelerated. there still are screen savers in win11 tho. dont you guys use dvds or blu-rays as backups. touching a toxic internet connection was a mistake. touch grass instead. you can still fully update winxp.

[@saronus1900]

The amount of blue screens/random problems I had using XP was insane, on 10 I don't think I've had a single crash/lock up where I had to actually restart my computer in all the years I've used it.

[@Music-wm9rp]

I remember rover the dog on windows XP

[@bishrantaregmi]

What?! Was Elijah already 10 when he was born? The timeline makes no sense at all... 😂

[@Frankenburger]

NGL, WinXP was solid, but not the release version (something most people forget). It's amazing how XP's public perception was able to recover while people still to this day regard the release build of Vista as the only experience Vista has to offer, let alone the fact that initial hardware drivers caused much of the poor experience (something outside of Vista's control). Vista SP2 64bit was, IMO, the best OS that Microsoft has put out. It had the perfect blend of the new features that Win7 made use of, while still retaining features that WinXP offered which were removed in Win7. For example, dockable toolbars were insanely useful for keeping the desktop nice and clean, and is something I will probably never understand why they were removed starting with Win7. Also, the driver stability and performance was comparable to Win7 after all the bugs were ironed out and hardware manufacturers put out proper drivers.

[@Jimbob_Offical]

This takes me back, I'm not even that old ( I'm 21) and I still clearly remember using XP in primary school, and on the home PC and at my grandparents.

[@Juzu89]

I remember making so many CDs for the extended family because I was the "PC guy". I had to make so many calls because people did not understand that the CDs had a certain amount of MINUTES you could burn to them. Also CheatCC gave me some memories of desperately trying to describe to my mom what she should look for when I asked her to print me cheat codes for my games at her work because we didn't have a computer. She always just printed descriptions of the games themselves. It was such a relief to get a family PC and find the cheat codes myself. It was also really easy for someone like me who was using the computer for the first time ever and this made me lose my childlike belief that my mom was the best at computers.

[@spartacus778]

I am 36 and fondly remember XP. Windows 95 was my first OS and I liked that one, and my family didn't get a new PC until XP came out, so I skipped 98 and anything else inbetween

[@thundafellow]

I'm the same age as Elijah and I've used both 98 and XP. The 98 was my dad's office computer and my first personal desktop was a thrifted XP with no internet and all I used it for was messing around with the display settings, playing music in media player, and making random slide shows in movie maker lol

[@JackHughman-b6n]

I remember running Windows XP before it was officially released. Still the GOAT as far as I am concerned.