Was Windows XP as Good as we Remember?

[@Bagley2014]

I'm 28, but watching that kid struggle to open a CD case really made me feel old.

[@beardsntools]

And then they complain about the speed too lmao. "In that time I could go to youtube and use a downloader".. then he says "don't do that btw" Yeah don't do that because the quality you get from lossy to lossy will be terrible.

[@chippyyyy]

im 24 and he made me feel old 😂

[@Hungry_Senko]

I am 19 and it made me feel really old...

[@xXJerry202Xx]

SAMEEE. I turn 29 in 2 months and watching that hurt 🫠🫠 I used to play the pinball game for hours and hearing him say "it's sad" made me want to punch the screen 😂😂

[@BryanLu0]

​@@beardsntoolsIt's a direct rip from KZbin, only KZbin's compression

[@pirobot668beta]

I am rightly proud of Windows XP...I was at Microsoft during development of this OS. It was the only OS that Microsoft actually spent the time to make things right. "We don't want a Service Pack in 3 months...fix EVERYTHING now!" The release date got slipped several times...quality was being held as the highest standard. We did our best to make a great product...I think we did OK.

[@jaytee444444]

SP3 was non existent for most. It came way too late... 2008. And by this time Vista had been out for nearly a year. Most people (myself included) spent the entirety of the XP years with SP2 and that was pretty much perfect.

[@EnlightenedSavage]

​@@jaytee444444 he didn't say sp3. He said they wanted no service pack in 3 months. XP was fantastic.

[@YODAddyLIVE]

XP MCE and MUI Packs, the glory days. Now it's literally there are no testers, you ARE the tester.

[@Rysysys]

Yeah, You did! Thank You for that!

[@raynjpg]

I think you guys did pretty darn good. I'm 21, and Windows XP was my first operating system. I played Roblox on it from 2013 until 2015-2016ish, when the textures quit loading on it and the game just quit running properly. It was the OS on my grandparents' computer, till they got a machine with Windows 10. The OS ran fine, and it was fairly intuitive to use. That being said, Windows 10 was a breath of fresh air in comparison lol. Windows 7, which my mom's PC still runs, felt about the same to me at that age. My short run on Windows XP, learning how to navigate it, and my longer run on Windows 7 and 10, are a huge reason I'm so familiar with computers now and I'm pursuing a Computer Science degree.

[@danielowentech]

Now check if they can use windows 11. Most of my high school students have no idea how to do anything on a PC that isn't in a browser.

[@d9zirable]

That is depressing to hear

[@ZaPirate]

ah yes, the touchscreen generation.

[@gergoilles-nemeth9021]

To be fair, Im 21 years old, grow up on the 98, XP, 7 than 10. Yet I have no clue how to use Win11. I had to do an exam once, where all of the pcs were running win11, man I have never been that lost in my life, couldnt find the paste or copy buttons, than I tought, ok, lets use ctrl+V, but shortcuts were disabled because of the exam, I spent another 5 mins looking for the copy and paste buttons 😓

[@dappermuis5002]

The irony in that is that when I left High school all the jobs you applied for actually asked if you were computer literate as computers were just starting to be come a thing you needed to know how to use. Never thought I'd see the day again, where that question has to come up with kids leaving High School and applying for jobs. Do you know how to use a computer?

[@robson124]

At that Era, internet was in a huge box and a crt 14' monitor to all family share minutes of use, so everyone had to learn how to use it, today even fridges have internet hahahah.

[@countrymanWayne]

The Struggle is real man, My cousin had an ancient pc with Windows XP, he was using it for work, you can imagine, I want to help him building a decent one, should I get him Windows 11 right? where I can get it?

[@JohnJacobson555]

Seriously?? 😅😅😅 How he was working, no way... well about Windows, from BNH Software, easy...

[@joshuaLLM1]

Poor guy, you should help him, I agree with John and you should get him a Ryzen 5 at least...

[@NLJuzzzNL]

Let hum struggle a bit with Vista first :P

[@weskirkland5850]

kinguin

[@theguyfromsaturn]

Wouldn't wish Windows 11 on any one though. He's probably better off with XP. Actually, even Millenium Edition would be better.

[@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. 😂

[@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...

[@dsmith5940]

It’s cute that the teens were actually quite ‘pleased’ that they got their own physical media - “I’ve got my own CD!” 🤗

[@dorukkepce7586]

Back then when we actually owned anything... no everything is digitally bought, or subscription based, we dont own sht :D Thats why I started making my own archive of movies, series, music etc. 🙃

[@evanr1940]

should have asked whether they have access to a cd player ;)

[@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

[@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

[@pedrodavid6041]

Struggle at 8:05 unlocked my core memory of leaving the mouse on the progress bar to check back minutes later if it had moved

[@Jokervision744]

Part of the fun.

[@UpJumpsDaParty]

I recall that trick 😂😂😂

[@timderks5960]

God I forgot all about that... How things have changed...

[@vaclav_fejt]

@@pedrodavid6041 Oh yes! And if a game was loading (e.g. Mafia: City of Lost Heaven), I laid a finger over the last coloured dot.

[@kalvincatugas7593]

Back when developers prefer useless bars than using numbers for progress percentage. Hahahah

[@aidanhelfrich4887]

Being 19 and seeing people in my generation struggle with CDs makes me feel so much older than I am

[@berndl_3925]

I remember when I played pinball on my dad's pc - why do I feel so old, I'm only 19 as well qwq

[@leafingaround6077]

same im 21 and i grew up with the tech that theyre struggling with. it made me feel so old

[@daggern15]

Just consider them ignorant and give yourself a pat on the back.

[@SimulatedGoat]

It does feel jarring when other 20 somethings don't know how to use old tech

[@aidanhelfrich4887]

@@daggern15 yep I make it a point to know how to use this older tech since so much of what we use now requires an internet connection there’s something much more fitting and nostalgic about using something that doesn’t require internet

[@hyperpug2898]

But have you noticed one tiny but VERY important detail... There are no ads and no tracking in XP!

[@thelaurens1996]

Well at least you don't really notice the tracking now either , Microsoft hides that pretty well. 😅

[@Hash6624]

Yea but if you use XP nowadays, you're gunna get tracked by someone else...

[@EmilGlockner]

I still haven't found an add in Windows 10. Where would I look for one? Or does living in the EU get rid of those, automatically?

[@pupip55]

​@@Hash6624 Windows xp is still supported if you fee. a few services still use it for thier backend

[@kuromiLayfe]

Tracking existed but they didn’t notify you about it during install (reason lots of people always suggested to not have your internet connected when not needed, that was not just to save costs but also the hidden tracking from lots of embedded software in the OEM versions)

[@gustavo1837]

I'm also 26, and there's no way Elijah didn't know that CDs scratch easily. By the way, if you know how to use Windows 11 properly, you can 100% use Windows XP. It's pretty much the same thing, just less fancy and convenient.

[@JardTheRat]

Yea he also said he had never used windows 7 which is even more strange.

[@Zeb-nh6hj]

@@JardTheRat this is very true i did the math and the last time i used windows 7 i was 12... Im 17

[@kalebg.7507]

I get the vibe he sometimes just says stuff to say stuff lol

[@WisteriaBerlitz]

@@JardTheRat I wonder if his family didn't have a PC for a long time, or he was using other OS like MacOS, Ubuntu-Linux

[@rohanofgondor]

bro is a content creator through and through

[@FSAPOJake]

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

[@cameronbosch1213]

I'd argue Windows Vista & 7 looked better. 7 was the last good version. 8 was the beginning of the end of Windows and the beginning of the enshittifcation of Windows.

[@kirby21-xz4rx]

Windows 7 says hello 😂

[@Ticklestein]

Which one was the one that did terrible and then had a .1 version that fixed basically everything? Win7? Basically would prefer 7.1 over XP, but XP is a close second.

[@roanv]

@@Ticklestein Windows 8 They removed the desktop lol, changed it to an app screen of sorts 8.1 brought the desktop back

[@nobrakes7892]

bAcK iN Ma dAy

[@PropaMusicUK]

When Elijah was told he was the only person to go through properties to get to screen savers, I knew he was a real one 😂😂😂 I was watching them piss about in control panel waiting for the chosen one to do it correctly 👏👏

[@MartinGarden]

@@PropaMusicUK facts

[@virpatrakar1404]

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

[@AustralianMurderTurtle]

He has a monitor.

[@balsalmalberto8086]

Old man Plouffe having fond memories of the old days.

[@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

[@TheHeuschen]

it baffled me also, seriously the dude looks much older than 26, but even if he is 26, or 36, or 40 there must have been some exposure to XP or 7 at least

[@CoolCrescent186]

As a 19 year old, watching people be UNABLE to open a CD case was painful. I love CDs, because it means you own the content, in higher bitrate than YT>MP3s or whatever.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

I mean in hindsight I guess it isn't very obvious how to open them compared to dvd & blu-ray cases. You have to know which sides are part of the front and back so you hold it right.

[@farawaythrower]

What about vinyl :)

[@Freakmaster480]

You could always just download higher quality files. Cds aren't really any better than just having it on a hard drive.

[@SanchoDomain]

@@farawaythrower no

[@DJ3thenew23]

Until your CD player breaks and you can't buy a new one because they're not made anymore lmao

[@AudiosurfSongs1]

Millennial here. XP and 7 are Microsoft's best OS to this day. The only reason I switched to 10 is because Lost Ark stopped supporting 7.

[@johncenashi5117]

Oh yeh 100% For sure. 32 here, XP was the best OS. Well, maybe for that time you know. W10 is good and smooth for today. 7 was totally fine, basically just an upgraded XP.

[@FPAlpha]

@@johncenashi5117 7 was a pain in the ass. It screwed up permissions for various drive partitions i had and when i moved to 10 i had to invest major effort in unscrewing access to my drives and getting back all the data. Ever since i moved to 10 i have not looked back, won't even upgrade to 11 as it works completely fine and without hassle.

[@yincimaster8530]

Forced to update to keep your PC running, but if we could, we'd go back forever. Imo XP was good, 7 was better, and since then it's been downhill only. Even simple organisatory tasks are even hard now, like removing the folders from the "My Computer" section. All the "you need to be an admin" shit WHILE YOU ARE AN ADMIN. God, it's been made so complex. Sure, once you get used to it, but the thing is, a good interface doesn't require people to get used to it. That's why Apple has always been so successful, because it's just so straight forward.

[@antares8826]

4:12 Him not knowing how to open a CD case broke me

[@Aleagueplayer]

@@antares8826 i had to pause the video and cry real quick

[@lukefrahn8538]

broke the case as well

[@aaronb7990]

I paused to comment... give him a cassette tape case next 😂🤙

[@Lemon10.5]

Same and I’m younger than him

[@boundish1]

I said wtf out loud when the case creaked.

[@sacredeyes3508]

Him opening the cd gem case hurt more than i couldve imagined

[@LS3ftw15]

@@sacredeyes3508 jewel case?

[@LS3ftw15]

Jewel case?

[@Monstah7]

🤣🤣 Felt the same way..

[@HolyRamanRajya]

imagine if he was given floppy(with a similar "disc" inside) and he broke the floppy case before inserting huehuehue

[@rhkips]

Back in middle school, our classroom computer decided to corrupt itself, and me and a friend elected to get out of class for the day by upgrading it from Windows 3.1, to Windows 95, via floppy disks that said friend happened to have in his backpack. Our teacher was so excited, as there was a push from administration to utilize more computer-based learning. We were the first classroom to upgrade to Win95, and the only classroom to have upgraded for the next year and a half. Good times!

[@EikottXD]

I'm surprised it ran it.

[@robertjones1081]

ya blame the computer??????

[@MietoK]

Yeah, back in 92 we of got few 386sx machines to our school. First computers ever. I was like 10 years old and I got tired of waiting for someone to come and set it up. So I installed DOS 5 in to it. One week later system administrator finally came and he wondered who did this. And when he found out he asked permission from me that could he upgrade it to DOS6 and Win3.11 😅 And at the same time we got VGA graphics as well. Happy day 😂 Been working with computers since.

[@Exachad]

Wait, isn't that piracy?🤣Or did they buy a license?

[@rhkips]

@@Exachad The floppies were not copied! New-in-box official release. :D

[@eldonhill4840]

I'll always have a soft spot for Windows XP for one reason: My dad created Cleartype and was incredibly passionate about on-screen readability, so I remember his excitement leading up to release that it was finally bundled with a mainline version of Windows. Of course he was a little peeved that it was off by default, but they ended up remedying that later. I know some people are mixed on Cleartype now, but back then when displays were lower resolution and there were no other forms of text anti-aliasing it really made a big difference. RIP Bill Hill.

[@true_dinos]

I'm 18 and people "Young People" strugling with my first windows makes me feel older them i am...

[@p1nstark]

Same xD

[@Ahmed_Ehab.]

Same..

[@ManzoorKhn212]

Aha me too I remember my older brother using this windows so I know some stuff aswell

[@roblogez]

im 15 and i used XP for a long time I can remember like how to do 90% of stuff you would do normally

[@adendragon705]

I'm going to be honest I was not ready for a video like this about windows XP yet... I'm not that old yet.... Am I?

[@random_n]

This needs a follow-up with old mobile systems like iOS 4 and Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Both were new when XP was just beginning to fade away, but each has changed far more than Windows has since then.

[@lucaspagote3042]

@@random_n this! I never knew it before, but I want this.

[@asdfomfglol]

Nah, go all the way back to nokia.

[@nomenmasi8964]

Seeing Ice Cream Sandwich being an old mobile system really makes me feel old

[@KBRoller]

@@asdfomfglol I wanna see them launch and play Snake on a Nokia brick phone!

[@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.

[@StephenKennington]

Watching the burning of CD brings back PTSD flash backs of waiting 20 minutes or so for a CD or DVD worth of data to be burnt only for it to fail at the very end and having to start all over again.

[@adsable]

@@StephenKennington Even worse was burning read-only disks only for it be corrupted after it was done.

[@malrofo]

I learned the hard way to burn at 1x always

[@XzTS-Roostro]

That's why you write at the slowest speed

[@GizmoTheGreen]

you didn't suffer through the very first burners, that was 1x? aka 65 minutes to fill a whole disc.

[@StephenKennington]

Remember getting a spindle of 100 CDs at a to good to be true prices. 60-70% failure rate. After that only got quality branded ones, cost more but saved my sanity.

[@dragonhak]

We still use XP at my job for a specific software that's too expensive on it's modern version and they're running on Athlon II X2, with a lot of frozen in time versions of VNC, Nod, Firefox and patched IE for the bunch of non restricted access websites for work. New ones have W10 and they still need that software so we have a VM just for that, and I have to say.. still works pretty fine today, Microsoft would never expected this futureproof kind of use

[@chriswright8074]

Just update

[@LilOleTinyMe]

@@chriswright8074 I think you are severely underestimating the cost of custom software in some companies. For example if the hardware is one of 3 of its kind in the US and has custom software to run, and the factory needs to run it to test their product? The software provider charges as much as they can get away with.

[@HA05GER]

​@@chriswright8074if only it was that simple. Company I worked for held on because the cost to upgrade was massive. All of our machines worked fine with the old system. For a company that's making less than a million in profit it just isn't viable to spend 10s of thousands upgrading lots of equipment. Better to spend the money on having more machine instead of LEss machines with upgraded systems. They still did the same job either way so what's the point.

[@chriscooper3503]

@dragonhak don't listen to the lies. Keep Windows XP alive. I lost my last windows xp computer back in 2017 due to a cracked motherboard. I miss it

[@SamWulfign]

@@chriswright8074 proprietary custom software is not that simple to "just update" for. you could be looking at 5 figures to have it "updated"

[@ingloriousdane]

You guys forgot the part when burning on a CD - DON'T WALK HARD ON THE FLOOR OR SHAKE THE DESK! The slightest vibrations through the floor or desk could shake the PC and corrupt (or what it is you call it when it gets damaged) the CD and make it unusable - just to throw it in the bin and you had to start all over.

[@stephenluttrell8958]

Oh man, I remember that. I remember starting a burn and doing my best not to even touch the desk as I slowly moved my chair away from it and walked out of the room and stayed out of the room until I knew it was done, getting annoyed with my dog if she chose that time to jump off the bed.

[@burnt1ce85]

Hahaha those were the good old days. I remember i would be so happy to get a spindle of 50 top quality CDRs for christmas

[@debashisraykarmakar836]

Yeah I remember that

[@CHPadyx]

And the anxiety when you hear the drive's sound pitch drop suddenly, which could signal another doomed burn...

[@Thomas-im6ft]

It was called a coaster. (the style at the time)

[@PJxpanterx]

Nobodby called it "apps" back then, I also miss the old start menu, made it easy to find/click on a game, now my desktop is full of shortcuts instead...

[@josephoberlander]

Having used over 20 OSs in my life, I can say that XP's major achievement was that it finally started acting like an operating system. Before that, one bad process or hung window - sorry, reboot, lose your data. It could multitask, but nothing was really compartmentalized. Even the user accounts and data was a mess before. XP was amazing in a corporate environment as we could image and have replacement drives. Very similar to Linux today, even. Dead drive? Plug in a new one, reboot. 5 minutes to configure and you're back at work. We could manage workarounds with Windows 7, but by Windows 8/10, it was nearly impossible to just have machines ready to go. Most of us old-timers still think XP was the best because of the reduced workload on the IT staff.

[@AbuelitoMunchnutz]

A couple other benefits of XP were the full-on blowup of new devices that could now use USB connectivity, and not having to reboot to access DOS directly (which You videomakers all seem to find a hindrance instead of a help - DOS was kinda necessary when You got a Windows-based virus to clean). And then there was the built-in compatibility moe that allowed the use of all the software from the past versions in a real 16bit mode (Early virtualization), and the use of DirectX supporting both software & hardware GPU functions.

[@josephoberlander]

@@AbuelitoMunchnutz It has really a few ease of life issues on top of 2000, which I used for a long time. (until 7 came out) We used it at work, but it was less stable than 2000.

[@lunemay5013]

Wait, hold on, you can't image later windows versions? I don't think I believe that, even the slightest

[@HaydenH]

​@@lunemay5013You can image all modern Windows versions. I'm not sure what they are talking about, maybe they made a mistake when typing?

[@lunemay5013]

@@HaydenH Yeah, I dont understand what he is trying to say at all.

[@MasonMenzies]

WHO IS THIS CHILD RIPPING ON 3D PINBALL??? 24, and I feel old. It's happening.

[@Bl4ckSer4ph]

"24, and I feel old" lmfao, what would i have to say...? "ancient"...? i'm twice your age... 🤣

[@chrisbednar3578]

28 here. It only gets worse 🙃

[@PraxisAbraxis]

34.... ayup. Just wait till you can look back, say, 5 years and have it feel like a blink of the eye... to follow the morbid trajectory that your life is shorter than you could have ever imagined and the speedometer only seems to be climbing...

[@leto_saa]

22 and i really wouldnt have thought someone just 5 years younger than me could be so different

[@midgetwars1]

Yeah I'm not gonna hate on a teen cos well they're teens, but the fact that an OS came with a free game is the opposite of SAD.

[@YourSweatyUncle]

Kids will never know the feeling of installing WoW in 2004 with 5 CDs then hear the music blast as it was completed 40 minutes later

[@CathrineMacNiel]

Wasn't it 4 CDs when it launched?

[@mallorychacon]

40 mins? Holy smokes, I did the download over the evening

[@ricardos8307]

@@CathrineMacNiel I'm almost sure it was 5 CDs atleast in Europe the vanilla version I had

[@fleurdewin7958]

The thing I remember was the optical drive sounding like a spooling turbo when it spins up. PC these days are so much quieter without optical drives.

[@Yuriel1981]

I can taste the sweet sweet nostalgia.

[@BNWilliamGaming]

As someone born in Gen Alpha, I can say that I’m probably better at Windows XP than they are. I guess it’s not fair though, as my first computer experiences were on Windows XP. I also used CDs for years before streaming was introduced to my family. On top of that, I guess I’ve just always had a fascination with older technology…

[@MinecrafterPictures]

As a guy born in 2003, currently 21, I first discovered KZbin in my mom's office, on a work computer that just so happened to have Windows XP and I remember using Powerpoint on Office 2003 or so. And this is why Windows XP holds a special place in my heat as my first ever version of Windows.

[@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

[@SegunLive1999]

@@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)

[@r0nam145]

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

[@WayStedYou]

because hes never seen a CD case before

[@kmeanxneth]

@@WayStedYou did they never opened a DVD / Blu-Ray / Playstation / Xbox / Switch case before too?

[@LaughingOrange]

@@kmeanxneth DVD, Blu-Ray, Playstation, Xbox, and Switch -cases all have a more pronounced groove where you put your fingers. CD cases were almost flat on that edge.

[@Destroyah5000]

Felt so staged the way that happened.

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@LaughingOrange yet they all have a spine in common where the hinge is and you open it on the opposite side.

[@kevinstobbs9134]

Love how excited Plouffe got over all the nostalgia!!

[@kevinvandijk4871]

The good old days where you had to install “no cd cracks” so you didn’t have to put in all these discs lol!

[@peterc4082]

I remember the days where the game would ask you for the 5th word on page 15 of the manual. Thankfully often enough using a Hex editor one could find all these passwords inside the EXE file.

[@TheNamesRyan]

People still install No-CD cracks playing old games on modern systems. Like San Andreas lol

[@BoxOfSnoo]

Daemon Tools Pro was even installed on that machine too. No need for a no CD crack, if you had the space for the ISO!

[@cfx115]

How about the Sim City red and black square blocks pamphlet to level select?

[@saladspinner3200]

I honestly forgot all about that, and I'm nearly 35!

[@johnnypopstar]

The only thing missing from this is some tiny mention about how "apps" were not called "apps" back then.

[@Wobble2007]

Well they were, we called them applications or apps, or programs/progs, either one was the term used.

[@johnnypopstar]

@@Wobble2007 "Apps" was not commonly used until Apple gave us the phrase "there's an app for that", with the iPhone. They were "programs" up until then, in common parlance.

[@kilroy1964]

I recall the term app as originally being an application for smart phones (rather than for a computer). Programs had been referred to as applications for a while beforehand.

[@Voron_Aggrav]

that, and that the Programs actually where designed to be a Program running on your PC, instead of being a Glorified Internet Browser forced to do a single task... and people actually knew how to program for Desktop instead of it being a side thing ... Spotify in particular being egregious with that

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

I remember the terms for apps going back long before the internet and into the BBS days. Appz.

[@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........

[@kentahirono]

@@ikkuranus Any 20y old hdd is way faster than the faster CD/DVD drive, a 22x DVD got up to 33.2MB/s, a 52x CD just 7,8MB/s. Likely it was slow coz junk pc.

[@garcjr]

Having been on dial-up internet until 2005. Most of these guys don't know the struggle.

[@Deliveredmean42]

Altho it helps that you do other stuff in the meantime.

[@markarca6360]

The first one that required product activation was Windows ME.

[@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.....

[@AA-wq5sm]

They open a little different, jewel cases don't click in the same way softer plastic dvd/bluray cases do

[@JMartinni]

@@AA-wq5sm Yes, instead they actually far easier to open, even accidentally.

[@ommiguel]

Nope we are the perfect distance away from consoles games going digital first 10 years at this point and netflix overtaking blockbuster for CDs to be irrelevant to anyone below 20. Im in my early 20s and I'm not surprised I would have probably struggled. I don't event remember the last time I open a cd/dvd/blueray case

[@muuhnkin4611]

@@ommiguel wtf is blockbuster?😅 Games went more digital halfway through the ps4 era. So around 6 or 7 years ago. Huge push during covid. At the beginning it was mostly boxed games because people were more used to the stuff coming from ps2/3. Mp3 started to pick up in early 2000s. We had CD shops around until the mid 2010s. When I do want quality for films I take the 4k bluray > streaming anytime. Someone who's 18 should know about stuff like that.

[@Rygoat]

@@AA-wq5sm you still dont bend a game case in half to open it it. You'd use your thumbs to open it at the side right? which would probably have still worked.

[@deangordon7180]

I'm from Ireland and was born in 2000 and I was using XP in school up until 2010, there were still some teachers in my high school using windows vista in 2016!!

[@S28426]

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

[@SachinDGamer]

-4? Have I learned a new way to say when I was born?

[@GerinoMorn]

What I appreciate most is ability to quickly pull up admin prompt and just change whatever thing I need with powershell, instead of clicking through countless menus that might take forever to load. Aspect of it is that modern PCs, with modern systems actually are much more responsive. It has been reasonably common for people to have to wait for word processor to catch up displaying all the letters. And the stability...

[@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!"

[@cameronbosch1213]

The original slogan for Windows XP was "prepare to fly" but was changed because of 9/11.

[@jaytee444444]

He can't really mention the massive key moments of 2001 without mentioning 9/11.

[@Drakkon-c9r]

I think that counts as a declaration of war.

[@privacyvalued4134]

3:52 Those characters would come back later to haunt Microsoft with a bunch of unfixable security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. Yup. Those friendly little characters were exploitable via the web browser that shipped with Windows via ActiveX. Good times. Until they weren't.

[@RetroSmoo]

I had some stitch character that was eating files in animation that turned out to be actually a virus deleting my files lol

[@shritijdighe5506]

Lol…. Tell me more

[@_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

[@Shaflugi]

DVDs and especially Blu Rays are like a billion times more scratch resistant. I can understand being used to modern optical media being more resilient. CDs tho? Man, those would get scuffed *in their own case*

[@SpeedyBlur2000]

My dad still has our original copy of Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance (both CD's) and "scratched" doesn't even scratch the surface of the condition of those CD's. ;) They are BAD! What I loved doing years ago (when they were still scratched to all hell) was putting the first CD in the drive and seeing how far the installation process can get before it stopped.

[@KBRoller]

@@SpeedyBlur2000 Don't worry, you can just put them in the microwave for 20 seconds and those scratches will buff right out! 😏 (Disclaimer: this was a joke reference to a very old meme, it is not true, please never do this.)

[@axerrowsky]

wtf? I am 19 and I know all of this. Not being able to open a CD? Come on, our childhood ran at CDs.

[@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.

[@jplegend98]

@@raypol1 I'm 26 and I had xp/vista at school. We had xp at home and out school got upgraded from 98 to vista machines while I was in elementary. We had 7 in high-school.

[@SubmaxSubrose]

I'm a 41 years old nerd. My first computer experiences were with MS-DOS (but I didn't own a pc, was to expensive back then) many years later, after I graduated and started to work, my first salary went all in to get my first PC that ran Windows XP. So many memories: Slow AF internet, Noisy big box, burning CDs of my favorite bands, Playing StarCraft, Baldur's Gate, Max Payne, and so many others and most important: I started to notice that I really really loved computers. So much that it became my career. I'm an IT engineer, I mostly use Linux (Arch BTW :D ), but I'm so grateful to XP and that old pc that set me in this direction.

[@rovers141]

They'll never know the pain of having to literally type out what you want MS-DOS to do line by line 🤣. My first computer game ever was on a DOS PC, Ultima Underworld!

[@otakuhunter4817]

32 and DoS was a big part in my younger days

[@jacobnathanielzpayag3885]

I'm 23 and I grew up on XP. Our first laptop came with both Vista and XP but eventually, we moved to Win7 in 2011. The computers in my old school though used XP all the the way up until 2012 as most computer education text books at the time were still written for XP and MS Office 2003. XP holds a special place in my heart as it was the OS that introduced me to computing.

[@IcelandicGoblin]

i kinda loved swapping the discs the process was weirdly fun, you'd read the manual and stuff while setting up

[@cookiemonsterdayz]

As someone who grew up with all those OS from MS-DOS through Window 10 and Linux I'm having a blast here. So many good memories from back when we were using Windows XP. It was a real improvement back then. Now in 2024 it's totally obsolete of course but it's still fun to watch those young guys struggle to find their way on this grandmom of an OS. Thanks for the upload.

[@igoat6149]

Literally shouting "DO PIPES, DO 3D PIPES!!" I love you guys.

[@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.

[@tychovw]

As a 19 year old this was kinda frustrating watching the two teens not know how to do basic things

[@trold8424]

i know right. How the hell have things gone this bad

[@rockets-dont-makegood-toas7728]

I'm sorry, but do you know how to differentiate a high quality record player needle from a low quality one? Why, EVERY half competent music enjoyer does, so why don't you? Oh right, it's almost like the most basic of things are only basic and intuitive because you're used to them, and if you aren't used to them, suddenly it's not so straightforward and "obvious" anymore. Just because their childhood didn't include windows XP, and yours did, doesn't make them stupid.

[@bear2507]

Easy there old timer...

[@jesseblack5812]

​@@rockets-dont-makegood-toas7728We are the same age as the "teens" in the video and know how to do these basic things.

[@rockets-dont-makegood-toas7728]

@@jesseblack5812 I could easily see an 18 year old just not being exposed to those kinds of CD cases much in their life. I mean, when they were 6, it was already 2012, if they lived in a well off household, then they likely already had access to the stuff that made CD's obsolete, and never had to deal with them. I'm sorry you don't understand, but the truth is not everybody has the same childhood, and what's an absolute staple that grew up loving wasn't even a consideration for others.

[@thinkable.]

As 16yo, seeing people struggling to use xp made me feel old… my first OS was xp, i was using cds for games etc. wow…

[@JoeNasr123]

When I was 17, we thought future young people would be SO good with technology that no one would need that geek kid from down the street (me) anymore. Now I see that most young people are pretty much useless at tech.

[@blahorgaslisk7763]

But they are pretty slick at using smartphones.... HEck those often make me feel stupid as I can't get around all those pictographs that kids think is perfectly normal.

[@josiahjwinters]

As someone who is currently that 17-year-old geek kid from down the street, yeah most kids my age are idiots when it comes to tech lol. There are a fair amount who know a thing or two though, mainly just stuff they've picked up while trying to install PC games or whatever

[@Marko-di3mb]

It same thing like cars, people who owned car till late 90 used to be able to maintain and do small fixes themselves. Changing spark plugs, oil and filters, even bleeding brakes or adjusting ignition timings all that was normal to be done in front of your driveway. Even cars come with user manual for most of these + some other services you can do. Today you literally should only fill washer fluid and add air in tires and that's that.

[@TheRythimMan]

@@JoeNasr123 not even just phones but specific apps on the phone. I know kids who know how to type, use iMessage, and Instagram on their phone. But they don't know how to do anything else. Can't even figure out WhatsApp and don't understand why photos get blurry when SMS a friend on Android.

[@Unknown_Genius]

@@blahorgaslisk7763 Not really. They're slick at using the UIs, nothing deeper than that. Not even my parents who were tech illiterate (well and even are now so they still need my services for most basic things) believed so much in what a salesman tells them and at least went to other stores/repair shops to make sure... Hell, I've literally given up on telling people to try to factory reset their device, rollback an update or use a virus scanner when their new phone suddenly is so slow its barely functional anymore, because you know... the salesman does know it better, and if he says they definietly need a new phone after 2 months they do. And I already know damn well that these extra illiterate power users are the ones to find absolutely every damn malware available for their OS within a month that I couldn't even try to find in all the years of having a smartphone or manage to somehow break the OS by touching everything they can with no clue and not even trying to understand it first (based on the like 5 people that actually let me try to help them before spending another grand on a phone). That venting done: I also dislike phone UIs. But they're quick to learn if you spend some time on them.

[@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.

[@TorutheRedFox]

the settings app is genuinely atrocious

[@phatboi202]

not being able to search easily is the killer going back to old OS's. win key

[@MichaelHughes124]

@@phatboi202yeah, until it takes you to the wrong page and you’re not 100% sure what the setting is called… I hate win11’s settings.

[@GG22n]

you can always hit Win and Start typing on Windows 11.

[@_M_643]

It's the search that makes finding options easier. If you had to manually find them, I'd be worse than XP.

[@joebliven3445]

8:35 It's not only because of hard drive size, it's also to control distribution. If installing from the CD-ROM meant you never had to put the CD-ROM into your pc again, then you could just sell the CD-ROM or give it to all your friends. Age of Empires II would let you load the game with the CD-ROM in to authenticate you, then once the game was running you could take the cd out and put in in another computer to launch the game. This way you could play LAN multiplayer with only one copy of the game.

[@ANunes06]

This is also the ONLY reason that DOTA (and MOBAs in general) were able to take off. A goofy ah map for Warcraft 3 that was created by icefrog was able to be played at lan parties because you could just boot the game from the disc, and hand the disc to the next guy. If that weren't an option, playing with friends on BattleNet would have been ... not good enough to have staying power. It would have just been another goofy custom map. There were hundreds of those in dozens of games.

[@Jafin16]

Remember all the no cd cracks out too? I remember playing Diablo II and Neverwinter Nights with no CD cracks so I could listen to my cd's while playing a game. Oh, how things have changed.

[@Guest-iv4qo]

@@ANunes06 NO CD cracks were there before W3

[@BrandonSmith-ru8wl]

One of my favorite memories of XP was using an unactivated version of it past its trial time, when I turned the computer on and got the pop up telling me to activate it I would click the link to open internet explorer and found a way to access the address bar and navigated to whatever program I wanted to open. Fun times

[@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?

[@245trichlorophenate]

Elijah - WHAT. I'm younger than you and have used both Windows XP and 7 (on bare metal, like not just to try it out). Windows XP was neat but Windows 7 is most special to me.

[@Rick020]

26, works in IT, somehow never used XP/7? How lmao. I'm 28 and my parents computer was still using W98.

[@egamestube]

@@Rick020 I used for a long time windows 98 and 2000 and I'm 23 😅

[@NicholasGogel]

@@Rick020 I’m 27 and a network admin, never used windows XP or 7. I did have a really cheap vista laptop to play oblivion on, but other than that no other computers personally until W11.

[@ccricers]

I know someone who is a database admin and he used Windows 2000 for a very long time. He completely skipped XP and just used 7 late in its lifespan

[@AdenGFX]

I'm 26 and personal computer at home was XP for ages as a kid. Also school PCs used Windows XP up until windows 7 cause Vista was so trash

[@abhinavdash5912]

I am just 15, but the very first OS I ever used was windows XP back in 2016, until I was in my 6th grade. After that, I got a new Desktop that ran 10, then downgraded to vista, 7, then to 8, and 8.1 myself, just for fun . Now, another desktop and I am running 11. But XP holds a very special place in my heart ♥♥

[@Viking8888]

I'm 50 (How the hell did that happen?)!!! Plouffe's reminiscing was getting me a little nostalgic for the good ol XP days. And trust me, for those that Windows OS hopped from 95, 98, a very horrible week on Me, which led you back to 98 and then to 2000 before finally getting XP, you know what XP did for the world of computing. It was a breath of fresher air for sure. You could install and actually enjoy your computer for much longer before something borked. But being Windows, it would eventually bork none the less.

[@iris4547]

never had the pleasure of using 98. had 95 on an ibm aptiva and some old version of mac on a mac classic but my next pc came with windows ME, the real GOAT. manually switched to 2000 then xp rather than dealing with me for long.

[@Viking8888]

@@iris4547 98 was decent, 98se was even better. I literally had Win Me on my drive for a week and couldn't wait to go back 98se. I pretty much did the same thing with Vista. I think I made it to 3 weeks of that hell before going back to XP. But from Win 7 on, I haven't experienced any deal breaking issues.

[@paene_]

Ignoring some of the weird versions, the mainstream versions of Windows have always effectively had a tick-tock model of jump in tech followed by refinement. Windows 95: Jump (stacking window manager) Windows 98: Refinement Windows 2000: Jump (NT kernel) Windows XP: Refinement Windows Vista: Jump (Security, 64 but support from the start) Windows 7: Refinement Windows 8: Jump (Touch friendliness) Windows 10: Refinement Windows 11: Jump (Stronger cloud integration) I would expect whatever comes next to be a lot better received than 11 currently is by the general population.

[@aaronthomas6155]

If MS had ever listened to their own beta team....XP wouldn't have needed 2 service packs to become the stable OS that everyone remembers. I ran Windows ME on multiple computers for several years without any issues. I spent most of my time on XP reinstalling it until SP2 was released.....

[@aaronthomas6155]

@@paene_ WindowsXP actually took 2 service packs to become what everyone remembers. It was far from stable on release. Most of the bugs that were present in Whistler beta 1, were still present in Windows XP GM.....

[@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

[@crungushakooter]

Peripherals and controllers used to be an absolute nightmare, and if the game or software didn't explicitly support a device then the next best thing you could do was use some horrid program to make your controller emulate mouse and key events. I would say it wasn't until the late 2010's with the Steam Controller stuff that you've ever been able to just reliably plug-and-play with an arbitrary controller. I definitely had to use x360ce to use a playstation controller on pc up until maybe 2018/19

[@kylespevak6781]

Now everything gets drivers from the internet

[@kylespevak6781]

​@@crungushakooterThat's still how you use PS4 controllers 😂 Or just wrap it as Xinput

[@profosist]

dont forget WiFi basically wasnt a thing until SP2, prior to that it was trated as a wired connection and you needed to use the driver software to connect and manage networks.

[@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).

[@peterc4082]

They're not a relic of yesteryears. Tech Connections is a bit of an a$$.

[@sydfloyd891]

I kept my old 2007 XP HP tower and use it for storage... TBH I couldnt find any buyers or even give it away and couldnt face scrapping it !

[@AlexLassaMusic]

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

[@mark4795]

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

[@phatboi202]

sadly, anyone who grew up with XP, especially if they grew up in DOS/95/98/ME is now old.... lol

[@VengFPV]

@@phatboi202 Hell I'm 'only' 32 and started on an Amstrad running CP/M lmao. I remember when we upgraded to a 486 on Windows 3.11 and it was lightyears ahead. This was in 1998 so we were behind, obviously. Then to Windows ME in 2000, which again was an insane jump despite it being shit

[@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.

[@TheUnclepecos]

3:03 Oh man, the pipes!! No screensaver could ever win over the pipes for me

[@looks-suspicious]

Some flying toasters would like to have a word with you.

[@oldmatttv]

The best screensaver was the one you custom typed on someone else's system while they weren't looking >D

[@iris4547]

3d maze > 3d pipes

[@KBRoller]

I remember making my own screensavers back in the day.... but I can't remember what a single one of them actually looked like 😅

[@MagnusPaul1976]

About two weeks ago, I installed Windows XP Professional Edition Service Pack 3 on a spare hard drive. This hard drive had almost 1TB of music on it. I moved all of the music out to a 3TB external. Anyhow, after I loaded Windows XP, I moved the music back to the 1TB hard drive. I use Windows XP for one thing and one thing only... To listen to all my music on Windows Media Player. It is not connected to the Internet, as I am not that stupid. If I really need to access the Internet, I can swop out the hard drive with other hard drives which have Windows 8 on one and Windows 10 on the other. But, since I don't use my laptop that often, I am quite happy with Windows XP on my system. It is working an absolute treat ! 😊👍👌

[@grimm4944]

Opening the CD was so fucking PAINFUL

[@peterc4082]

The really cheap jewel cases would snap.

[@peterchristopher2258]

"I was there Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago." I'm not supposed to feel this old. I do miss having fun with Mavis Beacon typing games in class and creating MS Paint masterpieces during study hall.

[@TheRem14]

5:44 I wonder sometimes where did LTT find Elijah ! The guy can be so knowledgeable at time, and others times the most clueless person I ever seen ! I loves when he's in video so keep going my guy and PLEASE MAKE EXCUSE TO THESE POOR CD ! 😅

[@KingJerbear]

Dude really pulled up CheatCC... thanks for the nostalgia buddy. The multiple D2 cd install... I can almost taste it I was a big fan of Windows 2000 Professional back in the day, just for the reason I really preferred the non colorful look of the start menu and such, but this video really brought me back to the glory days.

[@adamninezero]

2:04 - It's REALLY wild to me that Elijah is 26 and has never even used Windows 7, yet I'm 34 and remember using Windows 95 and even older operating systems than that such as Commodore AmigaOS. Yet there's only 8 years separating us! And it isn't even like I was just playing around with those operating systems for fun when they were really old, those were legitimately the current operating systems on the computers that were used on the computers owned by my parents or schools when I was growing up!

[@antoniodjHD]

maybe he grew up in a mac os environment. very common thing in US and Canada

[@adamninezero]

@@antoniodjHD Did he grow up as a Mormon or something?

[@martenkahr3365]

I'm 34 and I remember when I was like 8 or 9, the first computer in our household was a 386 running DOS with no Windows. And it was still more modern that the school computer in my class at the time: I'm not sure what exactly that thing was, but it used the 5¼" floppy disks that were actually floppy instead of the "stiff" 3½" floppies.

[@ShaferHart]

Copying and burning CDs is such an aughts thing to do. Those kids don't know how revolutionary that was back then. It gave people so much control over their media that they never had before.

[@dappermuis5002]

I can remember when my brother and cousin managed to get a hold of a CD writer when they first came out. Er.... they were really unstable. The simple act of turning the light in the room on and off, many a times would cause the writing to the CD to fail. So it was a big deal when they had to make a CD. Warning everyone in the house to not use anything electrical till they were done.

[@robson124]

I've made some money burning music CDs to my classmates at that era. in my country, brazil, a pc with a cd burner was reeeealy rare.

[@scotts3409]

Try 90s not aughts. Everyone was going to the video store to rent then make copies of their games for PC and Playstation as well as music. The 2000s were the age of MP3s.

[@Galiant2010]

My uncle was my tech inspiration lol. I remember being in middle school and wanting to go home with him after church to find music on Napster and put it on a disc so I could listen to it on my portable CD player while riding the bus and between classes.

[@tafan321]

@@robson124 Ditto, fed me my freshman year and also met almost everyone in school because of it and had their AIM screen names. Did mainly irc for downloads and boy when 768k DSL came to the house, it was game over.

[@citywitt3202]

Task: Rip the CD. Contestant: “Instructions unclear, R.I.P. CD”

[@Mario583a]

Task failed successfully

[@KBRoller]

"You mean like, tear the case? Got it, can do."

[@BNWilliamGaming]

XD The wallpaper at 0:20 is perfect!

[@NeonSlice]

In italy, our computers had Windows 95 when I used to go to middle school, in 2007.

[@lorenzo.delbello]

Anche a me, solo nel 2008 sono passati a PC nuovi HP con l'etichetta di Windows Vista ma in realtà era installato su tutti Windows XP

[@sendoh873]

Wow that's crazy. Thanks for sharing

[@Verchiel_]

I was born in 2003 and we had a WinXP family pc until afaik 2010 or so, i can say for a fact it was what made me such a pc elitist. Not having consoles in the first place helped.

[@MarcinKralka]

I remember some PC's running Windows 98 in mid 2000's here in Poland. I even remember seeing MS-DOS in some places. And actually it blew my mind, but I have seen DOS running in one bar in Kraków (cash register or something), I wish I have taken a photo of it.

[@schtormm]

here in the netherlands they were running xp but the switch to 7 took YEEEEEEARS

[@snazzy]

Can you imagine if they put the pipes screensaver on a shirt? I bet that would look cool, but it would be so expensive because the pattern would be so complicated.

[@Gatrehs]

You can do image printing pretty easily from a screenshot so it shouldn't be that bad?

[@markmathews2143]

Remember 3d pipes game from windows 3.1?

[@BenjaminBjornsen]

Its not complicated to press print screen... Unless you want it animated...

[@RyoHazuki224]

there are shirt companies that do. So you're a bit late on that front haha.

[@sethrosson9719]

@snazzy id pay at least like 300 dollars for that shirt. But I'd be worth it because it's a pretty complicated pattern. Not as complicated as the ones at dan flashes though.

[@paulknights5904]

10:20 BEST GAME

[@GREG_WHEREISTHEMAYO]

Exactly, can’t believe that they were crapping on it

[@LtexprsGaming]

As a 25 almost 26 year old this was my entire childhood. I remember playing pinball for soo many hours, getting on IE to play webkinz and club penguin among many other things. Good times.

[@depositionsandstuff7465]

@2:16 Older Young at heart guy -> "I haven't used this since 2001". Two seconds later -> "This was my favorite OS up to Windows 10"

[@woedendstewadpier4922]

I had to lol at that 2001 joke too. While XP started in 2001, it only really picked up pace in my region in 2002. People switched with delays even back then.

[@zeayd4546]

he said favourite, not necessarily using it till win10 released.

[@PizzaWormLight]

@@zeayd4546 A bit weird to use your favorite OS for less than a year though.

[@zeayd4546]

@@PizzaWormLight idk man I was In love with windows XP even when win7 got out I didn't immediately start using it, I used a year later, it had so many more features but I still preferred the win XP then came win10 and it was the best thing to happen.

[@Unknown_Genius]

@@woedendstewadpier4922 People always switched with delays and complain. People also complained about Windows 10, now everyone complains about Win 11. Pretty sure in 5 years everyone complains about Win 12 and how much better Win 11 was.

[@mrplt6302]

7:27 I remember Sims 3 coming with 3 CDs, it felt crazy back then. We were used to 2 CD installers but never a 3CD

[@drkevorkian2508]

You're probably thinking of The Sims 2, which came on 4 CDs. TS3 came on a DVD. Morrowind came on 5 CDs, Max Payne 3 came on 4 DVDs!

[@Eugen1344]

I remember installing World of Warcraft classic back in the day. It had like 5 CDs that you had to swap to install it. I was blown away

[@glOOmyART]

under a killing moon from 1994 came with 4 CDs - you only needed one to install, but all 4 to play one of the greatest storylines ever in a game

[@misterlobsterman]

Phantasmagoria was 7 discs.

[@Gazer75]

Wing Commander 3 had like 4 CDs I believe.

[@Siiseli2]

Macintyre calling Pinball sad was a hit to my childhood i will never recover from. :(

[@DraggardArcane]

I used XP until end of life and made the move to 7, I still have two XP installation discs. One is opened and the other is sealed for freshness

[@southernpanda33]

0:55 really!? It took you THIS long to use an actual segue?! For shame.

[@TommyAgramonSeth]

You mean Segway

[@nullkid10]

@@TommyAgramonSeth they are probably referring to Segway being used to transition into the segue. So they used the word “segue” for clarity on what they were referring to

[@MrCokewithice]

1:58 I have no idea btw but im gonna go out on a limb here and say that Katie and Macintyre are both children of James XD

[@jaihayes9647]

Children? How old is he? Although they are for sure related to him, god do they look alike (and sound alike in Macintyres case)

[@MrCokewithice]

@@jaihayes9647 no idea man it was just instinct I got half way through the video and was like wait...

[@RodBlanc]

Katie looks like james is trying to trick us using a female filter 😂

[@jaihayes9647]

@@RodBlanc it was so jarring to see 😂

[@waralo191]

​@@RodBlanc I thought he put on a wig when i saw the thumbnail

[@sb-knight]

Lets remember, XP might be 22 years old. But it lasted for well over a decade.

[@Juzimaster]

Windows XP is 23 years old soon. October 25th.

[@Strollerist]

Yeah, Windows XP was the longest-running OS I ever used. In 2004, I got my first PC with XP on it, and I stuck with it all the way until 2012-eight whole years! Even after getting a new computer, I reinstalled XP on it. Back then, I didn’t think much about different operating systems; I was just hooked on XP. I even went so far as to format a laptop that came with genuine Windows 7 just to install a pirated version of XP, haha! So many nostalgic memories. XP never let me down. In 2012, the internet wasn’t as widespread in daily life as it is now-it was mostly for teenagers. Facebook was just for memes, and KZbin was all about anime music videos. XP made it all possible. I loved its wallpapers, the startup and shutdown sounds, and those classic mini-games. XP is still my favorite OS by far. Nowadays, there are too many options for everything, but back then, we didn’t have as much to compare or complain about, and yet XP was always dependable.

[@MasterOkojo]

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

[@benjaminhough8804]

I’m 27. Grew up using Windows XP and fully remember my dad upgrading to Windows 7. Didn’t think I would feel so old. Didn’t think Windows XP was THAT different from modern versions.

[@DriveCancelDC]

XP isn’t that different this is just lazy content. No need to feel old, the title is weirdly inflammatory to imply you’re old if you used XP when it was current.

[@chicken_punk_pie]

I'm 21 and remember MY dad upgrading to 7 from XP. I played so much space cadet pinball as a kid

[@aaronthomas6155]

You want to feel old? I was a member of the Windows Whistler (XP) beta team..... I don't have the fond memories of XP that so many others have....

[@huskycruxes7232]

@@DriveCancelDCI thoroughly enjoyed the vid even tho it made me feel old for growing up with this. I remember ripping cds and stuff all the time as a kid. It’s not lazy content because you don’t like it

[@widevader]

0:14 So from my reaserch, this image is of Pygmy three-toed sloth. A sloth species discovered and described in 2001. It's critically endangered with about 80 left in the wild.

[@nikshakya7389]

Yeah, I had to search it too.

[@user-re4jf2sb4q]

I did multiple Google searches to see wtf this was about, but it was your comment that solved it for me. You the real mvp.

[@tmlhio]

Watching this as a 20 year old Hurts. Windows XP was a very present part of my childhood. Used it for so many years, did all the things they did in the video, and there they are... older than me not knowing how to use it. Was I this old school as a kid?