The Computer Chronicles - Fixing Your PC (1999)

[@WillOnSomething]

"The hard drive is the only real moving part" Case Fans: "Am i a joke to you?"

[@Amalekites]

Clueless millennial. 🤣

[@9852323]

@@Amalekites Clueless Gen Z*

[@cardbored_]

Ahh, the good ol' days where retail software boxes were sized proportionately to their price even though the contents were literally the same type contents of a CD and small manual more often than not.

[@wabbit234]

That PC guide site is still up and looks practically the same.

[@chris929rr7]

OMG your right same fonts and all! Obviously the dude will not let this site go and he only knows HTML lol. What a dinosaur!

[@Thorpe]

Not anymore. Looks like they got with the times and plastered ads and cookie permission notices on it.

[@Crixer234]

@@Thorpe Is an tech-related content farm now, what a load of shit

[@Maltebyte2]

@@Thorpe was just gonna comment they did update! lol

[@FeedEgg]

Having a working computer to fix the broken one makes it a billion times easier.

[@SchweinchenHorst]

So true

[@stevef6392]

Ron White! I remember his "CD-RON" column in one of the computer magazines I used to get in the early 90s.

[@manvindarsingh]

11:00 watching this in 2019 kinda makes me laugh

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

2023!

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

That browser really takes me back...

[@Gary_Hun]

Fixing?.. Apple: "Buy a new one. We will call it customer support just for fun!"

[@jacobbaranowski]

when you need more memory for Star Craft, you delet important files and, then I see the blue scren of death

[@DanielMarkstedtR]

That CompUSA tech support dude is sporting a rad Irish accent!

[@7667neko]

15:49 - It hasn't aged at all.

[@gocsa]

RIP Ron White 1944-2021

[@Starhartdeer]

I miss radio shack

[@Kr-nv5fo]

Lol, they couldn't get SquareSpace or Wix sponsorship so they went with QuickSite

[@westywest4480]

Take a drink every time Stewart interrupts someone or says "right".

[@bellboysekiu]

Oh my gurrrdddd. It's a pet peeve of mine to be interrupted while I'm speaking.

[@patrickglaser1560]

​@@bellboysekiu Stewart was good at keeping nerds brief on details and the show moving

[@RapperBC]

tark a drankwen sturtssuzwut?!

[@jacobbaranowski]

oh the good old days of floopy disks and zip drives

[@ilcool90]

Norton, the most horrible type of anti virus I ever had ( when I was using windows ).

[@stephanembaye]

Norton was the virus by itself

[@wallacelang1374]

My original Pentium MMX Windows 95 PC was dying, but because I want to continue to use MS Word and MS Publisher with a printer I moved those programs to a new PC. However I chose to keep the old PC as a video game console instead.

[@NewsBroadcasting]

14:15 like you bought the HP CD burner ("PLUS" Version) in the background in the blue box or remember it

[@jacobbaranowski]

the year 2019 on a computer from 1999 10:59

[@Amalekites]

That first guy both looked and sounded like Tom Green.

[@billn.1318]

there was a time when you really had to actually call a computer specialist and clean the computer for you (physically and figuratively)

[@jacobbaranowski]

around the time of the 90's I broke 3 computers with the blue screen of death

[@CaptchaNeon]

Nothing changed, people still don't want to pay excess money to scammers like Geek Squad to fix their computers. A lot of people still go into their computer and try to fix it if it's a desktop. Otherwise computers are virtually affordable enough to forget about it and buy a new one.

[@jacobbaranowski]

I want to see them fix a blue screan of death

[@unknownuse]

That's a Compaq Presario 4505 he was cleaning lol

[@unnamedchannel1237]

As soon as they show using norton, I checked out

[@DanielMarkstedtR]

Norton was actually useful in the early 90s! But by the time of Win 98 and Mac OS 9 is was kind of a bloated mess.

[@liquidalloy]

Y2K wasn't the problem, it was Y2.020K

[@westtell4]

its y2k20... but its now Y2k21

[@Kyntteri]

I used have this crippling problem with my PC with a lot of crashes. Couple of BSODs of a day was normal. Then I figured out the problem and got rid of Windows 98.

[@Kyntteri]

@mike h Nothing of value was lost.

[@Kyntteri]

​@mike h OK :D

[@spectreman2532]

Funny, that seemed to be more like Windows 95. 98 was super stable to me.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Most software today is now 64 bit.

[@Tan3l6]

Quote- "Corro-jion"

[@Maltebyte2]

I dont know why it seemed more fun to use those old school computers. Kinda forced you to become a computer expert! lol Not like kids today!

[@westtell4]

i cut my teeth on these machines

[@medes5597]

During this era, older computer users made fun of these computers because the use of GUIs meant you didn't need to know any DOS commands or BASIC. Every generation of computing thinks the same about the previous generation of users.

[@davidt8087]

But the difference between my generation using old comps, being happy to have thousands of NES games loaded on our PC as rom files playing on emulator, using the internet the first time in like late 90s, that was a time we LEARNED stuff on the internet. So many people would get on the internet to look up FAQS on sites like gamefaqs to learn stuff. Computers were a way to expand our minds back then. To, computers and phones for gen z generation is to be insecure and spend 24 hours a day on tik tok making stupid videos like lip singing and making ugly faces, DESPERATE for likes and attention. Gen z kids judge each other based on Follower count, “omg I have 200 followers but ewww that guy asked me out but only has 199 followers, LOSER, eww”. I’ve seen gen z kids in middle or high school behave this way. They don’t even know how computers work either, they just know how to surf the web. Wikipedia or other online sources to get knowledge is something todays micro Braunes copycat drone hive mind zombie gen z kids have never gone online to expand their mind, they go online to become even BIGGER conformist idi0ts. Gen z have no autonomy or self determination, just a bunch of weak insecure buffoonish apes, in class they disrespect and curse at their teacher and even ask them to fight. This generation is fking INSANE and PSYCHOTIC

[@westtell4]

i've never had anyone teach me about computers its always came naturally since i was a kid

[@davidt8087]

Ur only like 16 years old dude. Your gen z. You dont know about computers. You just know EVERYONE else has phones and they’re all DESPERATE to make social media accounts and show their faces and make stupid Tik tok videos praying for likes and attention and say “omg eww” to anyone without social media, and so the ONLY reason you have a phone or laptop is to be able to join the hive mind of your insecure micro brained copycat drone zombie generation. You basically have a “computer” whether phone or laptop because you wanted to copy everyone else and fit in with the hive mind of gen z m0rons

[@remcon7621]

LMAO 2 mb RAM....why not use friggin NORTON on the background :P :P :P

[@SageManeja]

9:09 the solution is running linux LOL windows still tied to extensions like its 1995 what a fail