Young People Try Windows 98

[@bur2576]

Never in a million years would I have guessed Jake was 22. With the responsibility he seems to have given to him and how capable he is. Wow

[@joelkinds]

I know right. Thought he was 25-27 something

[@Shaddow798]

I knew he was 17 when he started working there, didn’t realise it had been 5 years already.

[@NineEyeRon]

He was doing LTT in high school? If he is this knowledgeable now imagine him in 15 years

[@SteelSkin667]

He was still in high school when he was hired at LTT. His responsibilities reflect how long he's been working there.

[@majstealth]

explains a lot IT-wise

[@Swedishchef11]

Awesome how everyone is trying hard and Anthony just tells a story on every thing they had to do and knows how to do all of them really well.

[@3polygons]

Indeed, so much that makes me think he's my age! but no, he's quite younger (I'm 50). It's just that IMO this man was a fantastic wise nerd already at the time of birth.....! :O

[@Rossscow]

It's like all tech he ever interacted with is indexed for all eternity in that beautiful mind of his.

[@3polygons]

@D Now that you say it... I started college (or uni, as we say in EU) in '91. I ended High school (tho the length of that varies from country to country) dunno if in '90 or '91, as classes begin on September. So, even Windows 95 was not something that existed for me till almost ending college (I handled DOS and the arcane and previous Windows 3.11). Lol, I even remember yet handling some DOS based graphic programs in 4th college year. I ended Fine Arts in '96, but should have ended in '95, I believe (made a first year in maths career, then changed my path). But somehow he seems a tad younger than 50, dunno... I've always imagined he'd be around 30 - 35 , lol.

[@3polygons]

​@D Sorry the late reply, been busy... It has been a particularly warm summer (still on it ofc). But really, I live in the warmest area of Spain, southern EU, we got 40º- 45º C every summer, with peaks of 47 sometimes (in Seville and Cordoba, only, and 40 -42 _max_ (in summer) usually in the rest of the half southern part, including Madrid, the north is cold and rainy...Except this year!! ).. It's been just like that. Honestly, the main difference in my south area (but people in Galicia (north) are not used to this) has been that it has been longer, for longer days, and that that the hottest days have been sooner. But not higher peaks. Right now we have a few days with very good temps (32 - 36) for this time of the year. The worst issue (that's why we're getting so many fires) is the lack of rain for a very long time. The water dams (reservoirs) are close to empty in the south (14% or so, and in some places it's 1% !, average of 40% sth in the country). But of course, it's _much_ worse in Africa. In the rest of EU, well, it's crazy, as they don't get ever these temps. In satellite view it can be observed how the south-east of England has become yellow, instead of green (from that view). And in much northerner countries (Finland, etc) they have had people suffering from this (in some countries even with heat strokes), as for them 35 C is a heat wave. Just like for us 20 or 30 C below zero is absolutely terrible (my winter gets 0 degrees as lowest, only 3 or 4 days). The entire continent has had struggles with climate (and I'm afraid each year is going to get worse, it's the change). But it's that we're used to very moderate conditions and no disasters, while in Asia, Africa or America, a lot more disasters (floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc) happen. Right now the issues are fires all over EU, mostly due to the very dry weather and that the land has been abandoned, as few people working on it leaves a ton of combustible vegetation (dry bushes, leaves) that used to be cleaned by the animals and the people. Bad timing with the energy issues and the war. But we'll manage.

[@BlindLibrary]

Click here to begin?

[@SteveS29]

I love how this is 3 people confused and Anthony just showing you around as if it is his daily driver. It’s like he’s showing you around his house

[@IngwiePhoenix_nb]

I mean, let's be fair, if win98 was a house, Anthony and LGR would be living next to each other. XD

[@GutnarmEVE]

@@IngwiePhoenix_nb if win98 was a house, ...I'd burn it down. sorry, can't go on with it. without the nostalgia factor (and intentionally installing it for some retro setup), neither antony nor clint would happily install vanilla win98 to enjoy as their daily driver. 98 was a horrible mess on release; less chaos than 95(+patches), but a pain in the butt until OSR2(.5)

[@eideticex]

For those of us that were into computers back then. Win98 was really where we learned to hack and tweak the OS, about Windows networking and the old winsock reset fix when all else failed (similar symptoms and cause as today's need for -flushdns on ipconfig). I doubt any of us that cut our teeth on that OS and it's predecessor will ever forget either. They were tedius enough to build muscle memory.

[@KaiSoDaM]

@@GutnarmEVE i agree, my retro gaming goes back as far to XP. XP is still good to this day (execpt the security flaws )

[@mardus_ee]

@@GutnarmEVE Windows 95 had OSR releases. Windows 98 had one Service Release and then Service Pack 2.

[@magnutron]

I can't help to think about my father when I watch this. He was a PC lunatic but he was swept away by his job. We bonded shortly over computers and a few days before he died, our last real conversation, was about the PC and the ability to upgrade.. Man he would kick himself if he knew that his son would grow up to be a PC enthusiast and I have dedicated my life to the platform... RIP dad.. 22 years went past fast, greetings from your now 33 year old son

[@XaeroQuakeIII]

may his soul RIP 🙏

[@White_Night_Demon]

ur dad died when you were 10?

[@magnutron]

@@White_Night_Demon 11 :> Almost

[@White_Night_Demon]

@@magnutron damn i was 1 year off!

[@magnutron]

@@White_Night_Demon Pish posh :|

[@blanktenshii_9554]

I love how everyone is struggling while Anthony is straight up lecturing the viewer about how windows 98 used to work. what a chad

[@justwantedtoreply]

I want to see them try dos to be honest. That's what I grew up with

[@KokoroKatsura]

a n i m e n i m e

[@mjrdainbramage]

He is infinite years old after all. 😉🤣

[@mattblatchley2061]

he's certainly 'next level'

[@TheLionAndTheLamb777]

@@vardekpetrovic9716 DRDOS was always a good choice.

[@fanstalingibs5585]

Anthony coming in and explaining things like he's holding my hand makes me feel safe

[@lol_iyoutube]

I didn't realize Jake was that young. It makes sense why Linus adopted him

[@VacMaster1991]

😅🤣😆😂

[@p1nk5p1d3r]

Yeah, I'm shocked to know that he is only 3 years older than me. Kinda gives inspiration

[@MautreXvids]

Wait he is one year YONGER than me??? What???

[@mqcapps]

Linus ain't that old either...did he do commodore 64 or just visit one...

[@kkkefennn]

I think it is for a joke

[@ohshucks7156]

The pipe screensaver was so nostalgic

[@BlindLibrary]

Mystery was mine.

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

Guy stranded on the island who would sometimes meet the mermaids and watch the ships go by. That was always the best one

[@jenniedarling3710]

@@ModernDayRenaissanceMan that was "Jonny castaway" it was great sometimes the lilliputiens from Gulliver's travels would visit as well.

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

I flipping love Anthony's way of explaining everything as easy as possible so everyone understands.

[@NotTechSupport]

I aspire to describe old tech as well as Anthony.

[@steveg6199]

The "A" in "Anthony" is for AWESOME!!

[@AdityaBytha]

@@steveg6199 I'd say it's probably "Ancient"

[@danhainesy8299]

Haha Anthony is the goat!

[@zephy64]

Man Anthony is just like google for computers. He's amazing. It was fun watching people play around with old OS systems.

[@Throckmorton.Scribblemonger]

He probably used Google.

[@SilvesterBoots]

@@Throckmorton.Scribblemonger Nah. It's not occult knowledge if you were into computers. A bit invested was part with sound card drivers, though even today it's usual knowledge if you are into retro games.

[@Throckmorton.Scribblemonger]

@@SilvesterBoots Usual knowledge after you looked it up online.

[@adarob92]

He's a she now, so I guess they have two Emilys now?

[@MH-wz1rb]

Anyone else loved to watch the Disk Defragmenter run as a kid? When a bunch of blocks would be collected and then reappear fast, so satisfying

[@bdijkstra1982]

My dad loved it so much, he also used it his on USB thumb drives.

[@juilescieg]

jep

[@amarissimus29]

Still have that urge to defrag. It really did feel pretty good. And it definitely felt like everything ran faster afterward. Because the blocks changed color. Of course it's faster now. Problem solved.

[@Oumegi]

I used to start it before bedtime, and fall asleep while watching it. I turned out normal despite that

[@bunzeebear2973]

Yep, but when hours turn into days you lose interest pretty fast. "Defrag not completed as it is full of errors". You get so frustrated you FORMAT C: and lose everything.

[@mohammadsabirkhan1560]

Did this video just call me old?

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

Yes!

[@jordananderson2728]

Hearing other 22-year-olds asking such questions as "what is dial-up" or "Is [Command and Conquer] an RTS?" has really made me understand what people feel when they say they're old.

[@nickwallette6201]

I know, huh... Like the "play CD audio from the front panel" challenge. Man that one had so many "oh crap, I'm old" moments. "It sounds really good" -- yeah, 'cause it's not a 96kbps stream from a subscription service played over a Bluetooth keychain fob. It was CD audio. :-) * loads Windows Media Player * ... no, you can't use that, because the front-panel analog audio port won't work.. Er, right... see, CD-ROMs had analog playback before we all used DAE. Oh, um, DAE is "digital audio extraction", which reads audio data directly from the CD instead of ... * sigh * So, a CD is a disc that has music on it. But, like, you can use it offline ... which is ... yeah, so, "offline" ... OK, imagine going into airplane mode, but it's like 24/7...

[@mima85]

Oh yeah, I know the feeling. Some months ago I had to explain to a 26 years old girl what a floppy disk was, in that moment I realized that I'm starting to pile up years xD

[@Dukes3677]

I know I was born in 99 and used xp, 98, dial up, and have known about C&C forever. I'm like "how do you not know dial up?" Also dial up was your phone connection as well, so that's why you could use the pc as a phone and make calls. Even though it would sound absolutely terrible.

[@petervd6207]

Just ask him what modem bonding is, that will stump most

[@SteamSigun]

@@mima85 lol what? I'm 27 and remember my dad having piles of those and having few myself with some dos games 😄

[@drewba7741]

It's hilarious to see everyone, including Linus, struggle, and then see Anthony explain it as effortlessly as reading off a script XD

[@theRPGmaster]

Anthony is the GOAT

[@keyr3733]

Maybe because he's a script writer?)))

[@nazmulfahad3044]

Anthony ☕

[@DOTABaddie]

Infinity years old 😁

[@9852323]

I relate the most to Anthony on this video tbh.

[@franknberries7639]

I love that Anthony knows everything and is casual about it. Dude is the best.

[@MrVoltz]

It's his PC.

[@DailyCorvid]

I love that his age was the infinity symbol. Thusly proving that Anthony is, in fact the modern deity of computing. I am making a screen saver with a spinning Anthony head so my computer can pay homage.

[@Lappmogel]

I would watch a 25 min anthony with just him playing old shit and talking

[@HazySkies]

As someone who grew up on 98 and XP, this was an enormous nostalgia wave. Now I'm very tempted to revisit it on a spare PC to get the classic experience. I'm gonna be looking back and sighing for a while now.

[@ACE117GS1]

I love listening to Anthony explaining stuff and then going to everyone freaking out. It is perfect. He just has such a calm voice and knows this stuff still. Great video

[@vinnietedeschi5374]

Anthony is the consummate technology expert. He encounters something old and explains as fully as possible in the given time, the context and functionality.

[@MaffeyZilog]

@@vinnietedeschi5374, I think he's an attention seeker. He was meant to be a part of this segment but he put on his "Docu-voice" and explained all the things nobody asked him to.

[@abehme]

@@MaffeyZilog Says the Dude writing a comment nobody asked for. Oh wait so am I :0 ...it almost seems like we all need a bit of attention sometimes. Also its literally his job to explain stuff. If you dont like him thats fine but why make up some bs pschoanalysis?

[@MaffeyZilog]

@@abehme Are you OK after that meltdown? Tears dry yet, little fella?

[@abehme]

@@MaffeyZilog Aww how cute. Masking the lack of rethorical skill with belitteling. But hey its okay to cope Im not judging.

[@henryatkinson1479]

I love how Emily was in her element the entire time, but the moment CnC comes up she just immediately gets even more focused.

[@reoencarcelado5904]

@Henry-Atkinson: I'm a mechanical man :-) . kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3jYpoKaeZucj5Y (Yeah, I'm grooving to the song :-) ).

[@jhonshephard921]

there is a remastered version for that one but I really hope they do Tiberian Sun next or just a new C&C game

[@GSBarlev]

@@jhonshephard921 See I wish EA weren't such greedy bastards and weren't milking the IP for all it's worth with "remasters" that could be accomplished just as easily with free upscalers and community mods. I'm mainly just salty that, in order to legally purchase C&C Generals, which the me of 2004 didn't have the hardware to run, I'll have to pay for the full C&C collection--half of which I already own--and play it through their stupid launcher.

[@madbstard1]

Anthony is GOD!

[@VegaMyster]

@@GSBarlev The C&C Remaster was well done and fairly cheap, the original game is a pain in the ass to get going and the fan made versions like OpenRA are solid but it isn’t the same. It was a good love letter to fans, Tiberium Sun was kinda unfinished when it came out so a remaster that finishes the work they started would be great.

[@Addsomehappy]

Anthony launching C&C and going "I don't really need the barracks" has this menacing energy about it, like he's going to speedrun it in 0.6 minutes once the camera stops rolling.

[@fgmenth]

@@InservioLetum oh I think I still have a floppy full of different versions of ra2.ini somewhere. It was a primitive version of game modding.

[@kylehenline3245]

I would bet good money Anthony is or was a spring player. Basically community improved and balanced C&C with way more robust netplay. I was introduced to it like 20 years go and it's still going pretty strong.

[@UNSCLEADER]

Anthony was actually on his 4th game when they cut back to him and was about to start a blindfolded run when he was told to move on.

[@anon_y_mousse]

I spent so many hours playing C&C:RA back in those days. Loved it.

[@dachr2]

@@InservioLetum Red Alert - Tanja firing nukes every time she shoots. Now that was awesome!

[@robinsebelova7103]

17:58 there was even dedicated program that slowed those old games to be playable on high-clock CPUs. It was called "moslo". For Win98SE there was even unofficial service pack made by community, which added a lot of quality of life features from WinMe, 2k and XP.

[@lucaiannone9573]

Everyone is making guesses and trying while Anthony easily dives deep into ANYTHING in front of him, damn I love Anthony

[@SuperGon6]

That's my vibe and I love it.

[@mrdownboy]

Briefcase was NOT used for syncing PDA's. That's what ActiveSync was for. Briefcase was for floppies. You would bring your work docs in the floppy, run briefcase and it would update the files with the one in the floppy. Then you work with the files on the Briefcase and sync with your floppy when done. It was supposed to be simple. Nobody ever used it AFAIK.

[@silkwesir1444]

@@mrdownboy I think you could also use it via network (in the loosest sense, i.e. not only Ethernet but also Null-Modem-Cable etc.) which actually would be the preferred choice if you had the option. To do it with floppies was just an afterthought to accomodate those less fortunate. Ultimately it was intended for laptop users, I think, and I also doubt it was used much at all.

[@Goochball]

Wow, Jake is much younger than I thought he was. What a brilliant young man...

[@YTDE426]

I was literally pausing the video as I couldn't believe it.

[@Brando56894]

Yeah, I assumed he was in his 30s, he's just a baby compared to Linus 😂

[@whossuperpsychedelics788]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXWsgGyAj8yYoZI

[@Fortzon]

A while back I thought he would be at best a -98'er and more likely to be born in 1996-1997 because IIRC he started at LTT right after school but alas.

[@djdamagedome]

He has the look of a man who will look the same for at least four decades. People looking at his pictures far in the future will have no idea when that picture was taken just by looking at his face.

[@iamdew]

7:23 "What's dial up?" The modem dial and connect sound was pretty amazing, that's the sound to connect us to the world.

[@povso]

When someone says, you remember ten years ago and I'm like "Yeah, we used windows 98, it was really cool!" Then you realize that was over 20 years ago and you're old. I had luck in my life that I was born in the nineties and that my father was an IT enthusiast. In the nineties, we used the latest and powerful Windows systems for that time. My father, the IT enthusiast, was engineer for me at this time. He really mastered Excel and Windows and he taught me a lot. The bookshelves were full of books "for dummies" (if you remember that kind of books) from which my father solved all the problems we had with the computer at that time. Today, I am an IT specialist and my father does not know the latest Windows systems. I "broke" his computer several times, but he always knew how to fix it himself, with a little help of those books. Today it is the other way around. He helped me so that I can help him today. I like the video.

[@Fanta....]

Thats awesome! He brought you up well.

[@moonshinershonor202]

You the real MVP! 🗿

[@6YJI9]

My story/background is exactly like yours. My dad was the IT enthusiast, who would buy the latest and greatest to learn for his job requirements as he didn't have money to pay for seminars and get CE's, so he just taught everything himself pulling all-nighters via books like the For Dummies series and a few others, and in turn also taught me things along the way. I am now a subject matter expert in my IT MOS in the Army while also managing an IT business full-time and dabble with AI/ML while he enjoys his retired life sticking to Win7 and reminiscing the good ol' XP days haha. But all that I was able to achieve and accomplish was all on the foundation he helped me build. Crazy how some of us come from completely different walks of life but still end up with astonishingly similar backgrounds/foundations just from the years we were born and the era we grew up in lol.

[@TIMEtoRIDE900]

In 1998 I got a computer from The Catholic Church that had an "evaluation build" of Windows 2000 Professional - I had the baddest OS of all my friends and it was my first real computer.

[@symol30872]

This describes my childhood pretty well too. the 90's were an amazing time to grow up with computers and the internet.

[@Brando56894]

I thought Jake was in his 30s, he's just a baby! Damn, I feel old since my first Windows OS was 95. I was born in '85.

[@mobiousenigma]

windows with networking support lmao 3.11 but that ran on dos and i go back to ibm dos ver 3 ,something try a 20 hertz cpu with 12 meg of ram and 9600 baud communication

[@Eren-da-Jaeger]

Got someone of my age. Mine was 3.1, in my computer training center. 98 SE and 2000 were so advanced feeling at the time they came in. I felt like we have reached the peak of humanity.

[@grymkaft]

@@mobiousenigma Megahertz surely? :D

[@marcusborderlands6177]

@@mobiousenigma if it had 12.megs of ram and 9600 baud comms it was 20 megahertz. 20 hertz couldn't run a data connection that fast

[@dennychan1049]

Yea, I thought he was in his 30s...my first Windows os was 95 too and I was born in 81.. I was later introduced into 98..

[@JustinWild]

The more LTT videos I watch, the more convinced I become that Anthony is a walking encyclopedia.

[@Discostew2]

He is a genius I swear

[@ajcole002]

Funk and Wagnalls or Brittanica? 😆

[@RichD1011]

Anthony FTW!

[@SchrodingersDinger]

His age being displayed as ∞ (infinite) at 2:32 just makes sense.

[@bluesdealer]

Some of us were there when the old magic was written

[@unknown_-ed2rs]

love how three of them were just like "damn this is lowkey an improvement" and one guy was just giving a keynote

[@davidaprians]

I always loves how Anthony explain something.. he makes it more interesting and easy to understand.. I wish Anthony is my lecturer..

[@FelixIsMyName]

He reminds me one of my computing tutors at Uni back in the late 00's when I was a mature student. Made things so easy to understand (this was hardcore network stuff too!) This video made me feel so old though. I was in my late teens when 98 came out!

[@SumeaBizarro]

His ability to be in explanation mode is great. Few things in life make you feel like successful talker like explaining computers to your mother's friend. I remember trying to explain trying to find fault in her computer and ending up saying "Computer is yeah, one device but it is actually like... a BUNCH of devices even in the same one board this laptop has... And you just have to figure out or guess where the issue is and pray it is not something I as humble semi-free support can do stuff about." Luckily, it usually is hard drive and I may extra luckily have a spare I do not need nor need to be paid extravigantly for but that one time someone with laptop says "Someone said it might be the GPU, can't we just replace the GPU" to which I answer, in very different manner, "Yes, if we were Louis Rossman, but we are in a country with zero Rossmans so pray it is not that."

[@Hoto74]

Anthony is really a walking PC knowledge library. I wonder if I could remember that good if I try 98 again as he does. But I mean is was directly on 98 SE as I get my first Windows PC, avoid the PC for a long time in the 90s.

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

Anthony should just have an online class for computers, ok I kid but still....

[@silkwesir1444]

@@SumeaBizarro Similar experiences here, except... usually it's not hard drive. usually it's a software problem, so a fresh reinstall will help. If it's not that, it usually is either RAM or some unspecific "must be something wrong with the motherboard because we ruled out everthing else"...

[@Standard.Candle]

Whoever edited this episode deserves an Oscar for nostalgia. Excellent work.

[@westonjones6670]

Edzel did the editing on this one

[@jefez75]

@@westonjones6670 you meant Aprime.

[@dragon2knight]

Jake is only 22....?? No way! I'm in Anthony's camp age wise, 98 was my first real OS I used as a kid, it was pretty awesome----back then of course. So much better than 95 IMHO.

[@pauloa.7609]

Me too, 95 in school, 98 at home. Then xp for ages.

[@NyxHunter]

I know right!!!! How the F*** and I older the Jake. I turn 24 this month and I'm still in collage. Man I feel old and useless in comparison to Jake.

[@trunejtral]

How would you know it's so much better than 95 if that was your first one? I mean, you downgraded later?

[@Arts11234]

@@NyxHunter that's ok! I did my masters at age 27. College life is fun though try to enjoy it unless you're from STEM field then we are basically fucked for life.

[@NyxHunter]

@@Arts11234 Education. So not much better when like 80% of the shit being taught to you is useless once you get into your job because to be able to do it requires resources your never gonna have, money your never gonna have enough of, or children that act like mindless obedient robots which they never will

[@TemporaryTemporary-y2j]

I was at a family gathering at my grandparents' which was quite noisy and had forgotten my headphones at home, and was everyone was busy in their own groups and I was randomly binge watching KZbin videos, the audio being barely audible over the din and ruckus. There was a momentary lull in all of the background noise when this video started playing and the "Finally!!!!" uttered at the start of this video rang through, extremely loudly and I got weird stares from everyone. It was only later that I realised how out of context, it must have sounded extremely weird especially the manner in which it was said....

[@williamyoung9401]

I love how she changed the font colors to the point that she couldn't read the text. Everyone who was ever on Windows 98 did that to themselves at least once, lol.

[@OGSuki.]

Aweeee! I forgot about the hourglass next to the cursor😂🥰

[@aniketprasad3128]

And next it happened was with night mode in apps.

[@virginiahelzainka]

Guilty

[@jpalmer999]

I used W98 a lot and never did it :P

[@MarcusS103]

agreed that yellow or light blue made it so bad haha

[@SkorpyoTFC]

These poor, tiny, lost children trying to play C&C. "Am I the boat?" "What's going on?" ...And Anthony is just whipping out the strats from memory. Love it.

[@them3atstick753]

I appreciate this comment so much. I was playing C&C two days ago for nostalgic reasons at work and I had post millennia babies asking me what game I was playing. I had to refer to Starcraft 2 for them to know what I was talking about. I was proud to tell them that this is the RTS king that started it all.

[@silkwesir1444]

It's burnt into our brains. Just like the music! Dunn Da-Dunn Da-Dunn-Dunn, Da-Dunn-Dunn Dum Dum, Dunn Da-Dunn Da-Dunn-Dunn, Da-Dunn-Dunn Day Doy! Booo Booo Booo Booooooouu, Bwow wow woohoooo! .... ok, I'll stop

[@silkwesir1444]

@@them3atstick753 At least you didn't have to say "You know these MOBA games? Also, you know Tower Defence games? Well, back in the day, we actually had a genre of game which combined both of these into one. Actually, that was what started it all, before it was split into two..."

[@oftankoftan]

@@silkwesir1444 dunn dunn dunn dunn dunn - just do it up!

[@Puw1ng]

Jake is older than me by 2 years and i played cnc red alert lol

[@Dasher0416]

Anthony and Linus are the real MVP's and I would love to see more of Anthony and Linus in going over the nostalgia of Windows 98 as they show the most excitement in all facets of the operating system. Thank you for the look back into the past.

[@joli9127]

You could listen to the audio in the recorder, but if you wanted to change format you needed to use other program. However, the most amusing part with the audio recorder was that you could play it up backwards. It entertained me and my friends for hours

[@TheHavnmonkey]

Fun story, I let my mom use my gaming PC for typing up a document... she walked away from the computer for a few minutes and when she came back a virus had infected the computer. She called me at my friends house (on a land line phone lol) and was freaking out about it. I asked her what she saw on the computer and she described the pipe screensaver. She was legit scared and almost crying cuz I had saved up my own money to buy it myself and she thought she broke it!

[@Hammi4Real]

D'awwwww.

[@RogerThat1945]

Reminds me of people who thought the CD tray was a cupholder, & used it as such. Or that old lady who tried drying her poodle in the microwave after a shampoo.

[@unnamedsoldier5446]

@@RogerThat1945 haha cd as cupholder never heard before only americans can get to it

[@peik_haikyuu2265]

@@unnamedsoldier5446 idk what being american has to do with a cd tray cupholder lol

[@unnamedsoldier5446]

@@peik_haikyuu2265 because no one in the world woud figure it out for this 😂

[@connoremery9521]

It's so fascinating to look at something like the briefcase feature and notice just how much of a precursor it is to things like OneDrive and Dropbox

[@lcrazy8l]

I was waiting for someone to say that “ohhh it’s the OneDrive!”

[@YKSGuy]

@@lcrazy8l I made a comment in another post but it was more often used in business settings to sync network drives to laptops as laptops did not have mobile internet available to them or it was too slow to use. So YA it is almost EXACTLY like OneDrive/Dropbox.

[@thestig007]

Pretty amazing when you consider how everything is constantly connected to the internet now. Just wasn't the case back then.

[@YKSGuy]

​@@thestig007 Less less impressive when you grew up before the internet but I know my kids have a hard time comprehending it. The impressive part of the internet for me is the access to information. I am more impressed with the computing power of my phone in my pocket. Could do a whole series on early Pocket computers / PDAs / Smart Phones. The iPhone triggered such a SUDDEN massive leap in that market it is more jarring than going back through old versions of windows on a PC.

[@thestig007]

@@YKSGuy You're definitely correct there. The smart phone brought computing to a totally different level. For better, or for worse...

[@cypherpunk6417]

I love how Anthony knows everything as if he coded the OS himself. Virtual high five, my man.

[@BrianBlock]

Everyone who used these systems professionally (in IT or IT adjacent roles) knew all this stuff about their system(s) of choice. You had to to use the system effectively. Many professional users and developers today are so isolated from the underlying system and only know their applications and the few system things they need to use those applications effectively :(. In the Windows 3.x, 95, and 98 days, knowing the hardware and OS to a ridiculous degree was pretty standard.

[@cypherpunk6417]

@@BrianBlock totally agree.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

@@BrianBlock That wasn't just true for professionals. Every serious gamer knew every hidden $#!t of those OSes. Because they had to.

[@redditgalaxy1457]

@@CakePrincessCelestia a bit like Linux is now

[@aperinich]

nerdalert

[@marinaa9557]

The pipe screensaver was so nostalgic, as was the media player I saw in the background that I wish they'd played! Those two things, and solitaire, were my favorite things to just stare at for hours back in early grade school. Makes me think of a pc game subscription I had for a pixel art style game that still bugs me til this day that I do not remember what it was. I never finished that game!

[@collisw8302]

Anthony succeeding at Command and Conquer before the other people even figured out what type of game it is is absolutely hilarious.

[@alext3811]

I mean have they ever heard of Starcraft?

[@23wtb]

@@alext3811 Dune friggin 2, broheim.

[@alext3811]

@@23wtb Huh, guess my Gen Z is showing.

[@DailyCorvid]

@@23wtb Dune2 could be a 1.2MB phone game these days! Or the minigame on your PIPBOY3000!

[@alek2341]

That 98 startup sound is nostalgically powerful and still sounds fantastic.

[@yajastudio8241]

Pro tip from a 90s kid: For sound recorder, if you press the record button when it's paused or while it's recording, it adds another minute of recording time from your current time. My friends thought I was a computer wizard when I showed them that.

[@unnainconnu9098]

And all this time I saved a one minute file then opened it back to get two minutes and so on to get enough time. 😅

[@TheBlacktom]

When I showed someone that they can only write text in Paint when not zoomed in I was called a genius.

[@kaliek5281]

The C&C installation screen....so nostalgic. I love that the remaster recreated it.

[@stealthghost827]

"I remember this being a lot cooler" - exactly what I have in my mind when playing old games or using old systems.

[@gongandfriends]

Or watching old movies and tv shows

[@alkaholic4848]

@@gongandfriends I can't tolerate laugh tracks any more. When i go back and watch old comedies that I used to like, just can't do it any more because once you're aware of how ridiculous and pointless the laugh track is, you can't undo. Even if i still like the show and it's still funny, just can't get past more than 5 minutes because of the laugh track.

[@Mr.Morden]

TBH the UI customization in Windows95/98 is way more sophisticated than from Vista to now (XP had an option to use the old 95/98 UI). 95/98 let you change the color of most any UI component and the font of most any UI component. Windows 11 only dreams of being that customizable. Yea Stardock Windowblinds/Curtains is a thing, but that doesn't even work on Windows 11 these days. Hopefully Microsoft is addressing the lack of customization in Windows 12... but I doubt it.

[@beverlywhitman303]

@@Mr.Morden "95/98 let you change the color of most any UI component"

[@jupiterjones3789]

I have that feeling in 50% of the cases, that's true for old movies, music or books, too. Some stuff didn't age well, some I've grown out, but some holds up really well and I realize quite often that there was more to it One of the games I played on 95 and 98 was Star Wars Rebellion and I still play it on Steam with the same graphics, just an optional battle system doesn't work properly anymore. Baldur's Gate was in that version also still a lot of fun, until I got the enhanced version, now I'm used to that^^ The most annoying thing when I tested an old version again, was actually the Firefox interface with a separate search bar ;)

[@AbsolutZer0-1C3]

Those were the days when trying to get a game to run, either in DOS or Windows, were what really taught you about computers. Especially the difference between Enhanced and Extended memory, why doublespace is a bad idea, and why you shouldn't use the arrow keys to turn in DooM.

[@truckerdave8465]

I’m glad to be past that, but it was amazing remembering to show my kid Sailor Moon Doom. Best version of Doom hands down.

[@JehuMcSpooran]

Oh yeah. I still have the demo disks for The Lion King and Aladdin. Aladdin needed you to run mem maker to map that extended memory. Getting that to run on our old 486 was...interesting.

[@mistress9sama]

@Trucker Dave Yes, Sailor Moon Doom da bomb 🤣 I remember playing that with my online friend back in the day (now ex-husband). So nostalgic, was worried that others have forgotten about its existence.

[@danteshydratshirt2360]

yes BUT that is an issue which still plagues Linux to this day

[@truckerdave8465]

@@mistress9sama You can still find playthroughs on KZbin! You can still find the game too I think!

[@danielabbott9312]

Love how knowledgeable Anthony is he makes great content always

[@Ming1975]

Yeah, i think he is what we use to call "the computer guru". LoL!

[@Sevalecan]

That old Windows Chime is just close enough to my on-call alert for work that it's giving me anxiety.

[@remghoost]

I heckin love Anthony man. He's such a wealth of information and always a wonderful presenter.

[@RileyBanksWho]

is that the tall guy? does he have a yt channel?

[@IsmailofeRegime]

@@RileyBanksWho No, Anthony is the guy who is old enough to have seriously used 98 back in the day.

[@RileyBanksWho]

@@IsmailofeRegime yeyeah thats who I meant

[@omardude39]

Anthony understanding the full background that lead to reasons for things in the OS is really calming to me. It shows a fuller understanding of Computing history from the late '90s up into the 2000s which was right around the time my earliest memories of computers were formed.

[@ManWithBeard1990]

About the "I know this" scene from Jurassic Park: The "Unix system" she was using was Irix. Looked fictional, was real, although the 3D file manager was very much optional. I once used a SPECT scanner whose original control box had it. It's also the OS on SGI computers, which were common in the film industry at the time.

[@StitchExperiment626]

Yea. KZbin randomly recommended me some videos about it and written media said that thing wasn't real back then altough it was.

[@SDWNJ]

I was a Linux consultant back in the day, my first client had an SGI system running Irix as well as a few linux systems.

[@Phenom98]

Yeah You can tell they were really proud of their 3D capabilities so they made that fancy-ass 3D UI lol

[@dreammjpr]

I’m actually working with Irix 6.5.30 which will always be the Unix of choice (though HP-UX is a close second). All hail 4WDM

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The file manager they used in the movie was called fsn, and somebody made a version for Linux called fsv It was indeed a Unix system

[@ilovepandas1246]

13:00 I actually had to use dxdiag as part of a software beta recently.

[@pizzamann95]

My college roommate and I used to record ourselves saying things backwards in sound recorder and use the reverse feature to see how close to "normal" it would sound. That was a "fun" Friday night back then.

[@tSp289]

Didn't own a PC, but friends houses we'd play Worms, or Dark Forces, Carmageddon or Half Life. Honestly mostly what we did was find all the civilian characters and kill them while avoiding the enemies because 13 yr old boys don't change.

[@soogymoogi]

My friend and I did this too when we were 10 or so! Good times

[@zomfgeclipse]

This sounds like an awesome party game or drinking game actually

[@DelimiterFrameworks]

I did it with music

[@FRAAANKYSUUUPER]

Holy crap, as soon as they mentioned recording audio I received a wash of nostalgia of doing this. Was great back in the day metaring what limited options we had in life.

[@AdamHaas]

8:17 That's why before you do your actual recording, you hit record - wait for it to finish - then hit record again. This extends the length of the file. Keep doing this process until it's long enough (say 10 minutes) for your desired recording. You can then save this file as your template. Open it up, do your recording of long content, then use "Save As" to create a new file that doesn't overwrite the template you created. This is how I created a huge library of "Ripped" music before you could even rip music.

[@eDoc2020]

To make this faster you can use the insert function to double the length of the file.

[@jcdenton2819]

You actually could, just set "Line out" in audiodevices as a source.

[@jarnoob]

Was way easier to make few second recording and then just keep clickin the slow down in edit and save.

[@EBackwards]

This windows 98 looks clean! - No Ads - Simple to the point user interface - Very quick to load anything even on old hardware When is this being released? At last Microsoft is on point and heading in the right direction! HYPED!

[@VFella]

Quick compared to ? And what software exactly? There wasn't t much more than Win98 to compare with. MS DOS ? Widows for Workgroups ? It was just as fast or slow. Games took a while to load (as they do now, but that's a different story). Win NT was also just as clean and fast loading stuff. Linux was pretty hard to set up… but just as clean and fast. Even cleaner. macOS? Fast. Clean interface. Windows 7? Windows 10, Windows 11? Fast, clean interface. Mac OS X, any version? Fast Clean interface. Any Linux desktop out-of-the-box? Fast, clean interface. Unless by “loading” you mean loading web pages… which would have been a tad difficult with Win98 in the beginning and was a real PIA later when internet finally appeared. I am not sure if you recall the times of Mosaic and CompuServe. It was a torture to load a proper web page. Then came IE and Netscape… anything but “fast loading” . And that in the rare cases when a page actually loaded, and you didn't have to reload it several times… We mostly used IRC, Usenet and mailing lists for anything serious. You can have an interface as clean as you want it, that's a personal choice, not something inherent to the operating system or desktop environment. Also: Many times slow loading performance is a self-inflicted illness when we stuff our computers to the brim with antiviruses, firewalls and “security” software meant for threats that don' t even exist anymore, when simply enabling Windows Defender is enough on any Windows version since Windows 7. Of course, if you use to visit questionable sites or click on emails from Nigerian princes, no antivirus will safe you. I worked for Symantec in the mid-late 2000s, that's how I know. I have also been using Windows 7 and 10 professionally for a very long time without a single case of infection. TL;DR: Don't clutter your desktop with “themes” and don't install silly antiviruses, and you will have a clean interface and your programs will load fast.

[@northernsupernova1]

Win95 was worse@@VFella

[@dannygjk]

@@VFella Win 98 was quick if you had reasonable hardware.

[@VFella]

@@dannygjk Oh, I didn't know that. Learned something new, for sure. I'm an IT professional, BTW. I have used Windows from Win1.1 on all sorts of hardware. And it wasn´t that there was much to choose back then. And I seriously doubt that it would beat MS DOS or MS DOS plus Novell Netware or Win NT, which was what it was competing with. Not to mention Mac OS 8 and later Mac OS 9. The latter was so nice that I installed myself a Power Macintosh G3 (the green one!!) in 2006 to use along WinXP. Nah, dude, computers were terrible slow back then. And it wasn't just the perception from somebody used to modern top-notch hardware, it felt slow back then too.

[@dannygjk]

@@VFella With each iteration of Windows they increased the demand the OS put on the hardware. I expect when I go to Win 11 I will need a super computer to maintain the same performance.

[@manchora]

The 3D pipes screen saver had an Easter egg where if you set certain settings and sometimes the bends in the pipes will have little tea pots

[@peeperpawsmcgee]

When linus says, "I remember this being a lot cooler" that pretty much sums up all things I revisit from my childhood.

[@curbacz16]

It's weird because that's how I felt when it came to revisiting retro games for a while. I recently bought a 4:3 CRT, and the memories came back...

[@hiddenaether]

@@curbacz16 Was gonna say this, I used to work at a retro arcade

[@agrisimfarming]

@@curbacz16 I remember going back to GameCube games from my childhood and wondering why they looked so much worse than I remembered, then I played them on a CRT and it looked exactly how I remembered it being all those years ago. That is when I fell in love with CRTs again. I currently have one on my desk next to me RN.

[@juliohenrique8546]

Literally me when i decided to watch Power Rangers again 😂😂😂

[@_Twink]

This video inspection to download goosebumps

[@TheTechAdmin]

0:20 That boot up sound *still* gives me chills. The feeling of having the world *_suddenly_* at your finger tips, is a feeling I wish everyone could experience. Summer camp was the only other possible way to converse with people NOT only from your immediate vicinity.

[@luismaldonado1494]

That start up sound brings back a lot of memories from the 90's, such a cool era to grow up in.

[@IsmailofeRegime]

Yeah the Windows start up sounds from 95 to XP made the very act of turning on your computer sound like a glorious event. And, in a sense, it really did feel that way for a while.

[@AliYassinToma]

watch?v=miZHa7ZC6Z0 paste this in yt search or after the / in the yt url this one gives me chills the most

[@MrNo0p]

@@IsmailofeRegime Yep same with the PS1 boot sound. It'd be awesome if they'd bring that back

[@9852323]

That’s exactly how I felt when I had Windows 98. Like I literally could do anything and I have the world at my fingertips. It was an exciting time. Now it just looks so dated.

[@Fools_Requiem]

"They really throw you into things without any explanation." The explanation was in the manual. They'd have the all the info you'd need to get up to speed in the manual. Some included the basis for the plot.

[@Gatorade69]

@Okabe Rintaro Video games still have soul... There's plenty of indie games with a lot of heart. Just avoid shit from EA, Ubisoft and the like.

[@Omar-fi9tl]

games are still good you're just too old to enjoy them like you used to like most of us.

[@Gurj101]

@@Gatorade69 or play old ea and ubisoft games that did have a heart ..... right ?

[@Jon-nz3dm]

@@Omar-fi9tl this I've tried to play and enjoy new games and I just can't. They're all so boring to me now. 28 years old, haven't enjoyed a game in 5+ years lol

[@n3ttx580]

And the manual would have solid 50 pages and you'll read it while you were waiting for the game to install. I remember in the case of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, if you were installing both GDI and NOD sides (assuming you had HDD large enough) on a standard CD-R drive, you could read both manuals, re-read what you did not understood and eat the pancakes your grandma made you, and then you could play. Such a good times when printing in manuals was 1000x better graphics and it gave you all the backstory and tips on how to position buildings, units and whatnot.

[@ThysRoes]

9:03 Bro. The jack on the front of the optical drive always worked. This way: - you could use them as CD-players when you were working on something or could make a bricked computer useful - you could troubleshoot if the thing actually worked or not, sometimes handy when that cable, or soundcard, or software setting was the issue. So signal didn't go through the system.

[@bioniclelegend7]

God Anthony was so cool. He knows so much information and gave so many interesting details. Really fun just hearing him talk about topics.

[@Kristibek]

3:40 Fun fact: Briefcases were a feature that existed all the way up to Windows 10 1607 (the option to create them was removed in Windows 8, but existing ones would still work) before they were removed along with Homegroups presumably because Microsoft wanted to promote OneDrive for file sharing and backups

[@jondoe6608]

Yah and I am salty about that, I still used Briefcases and have zero interest in OneDrive or any other cloud based nonsense

[@m-w-y7325]

I still used to setup homegroups until just a few years ago, I learned the process while trying to setup a lan party while playing Quake 2 with my bros. never gonna forget it and I hate OneDrive.

[@JanRademan]

I miss Mesh.

[@Tn5421Me]

Briefcases were dope.

[@guguigugu]

clouds are useless for this, what if you are somewhere without internet

[@orbit-corvid]

The worst thing about this is that now I have Windows 11 with all its bells and whistles and cool modern features, but when I need to change some settings I still have to go into some obscure dark corner of the system that looks *exactly the same* as I remember it from Win98. Like do you need to change some network adapter settings? Here we go, let's go through the Win11 interface, pass through the remnants of "Modern" UI into the XP-looking control panel and happily into the ancient setting window to change your default gateway. There are PC icons from all eras of Windows spread around the Windows 11 settings like easter eggs. The damn copy/paste progress window when copying from an attached device still has the Vista design. 😀

[@bishplis7226]

nothing is better, exept for grandma

[@stevensteven3417]

Windows 7 was the best windows, it was fast and very user friendly.

[@rasmasyean]

Windows Vista was the best windows...if you had the right machine to run it. I believe that's the OS that introduced most of the modern changes, but it was a resource hog and had some bugs to go with it. They cleaned it up and rebranded it as Windows 7.

[@KenyoMurabu]

@@stevensteven3417 Best Windows was: -- Windows 98 (For Customizations, Extra Features, & Control) -- Windows 7 (For Performance & Optimization Quality) -- Windows 10 (For Graphix Quality) Windows 11 (For Mobile & Anti-Human Friendly) --- It's way down here, because it's Forcefully Regulated Poorly, lOl

[@Dhakadice]

@@rasmasyean "Some" bugs? I'd get locked out of using the task bar on a regular basis. And I could have done without "modern changes" like removing the friggin "Play" button (!) in Sound Recorder (and only allowing files to be saved as WMA, because who uses regular, uncompressed wave files, right?).

[@libman2006]

On 3D Pipes screensaver 1. Select pipes as "multiple" 2. Select Pipe style as "Traditional" 3. Select joint type as "mixed" 4. Surface style to be "solid" For teapots instead of joints On 3D Text screen set text as volcano to get names of volcanoes

[@andywhtwo000]

It was so satisfying to hear Anthony mention the special cable and jumpers for the cd drive audio. I was thinking the whole time that it was a trick question for them.

[@thewritingengineer]

"What is Dial-up?!" had me in stitches. I remember downloading Netscape @ 27MB in size and just walking away to tell my family not to pick up the phone. For two hours.

[@GuyWilson706]

Brrrroooo Limewire!

[@83gh]

I lost it at the exact same moment, had to wipe my screen afterwards.

[@eiyukabe]

Yeah, I remember when you had a certain number of hours each month you could be "on" the internet. You had to plan it out...

[@afjer]

Man's working at LTT and doesn't know what Dial-up is.

[@stormgirl09]

i remember one time my mom simply accidently knocked out the cord out....boy I remember being so pissed that day.... 🤣

[@88porpoise]

"Young people try Windows 98" "What do you mean 'try' we grew up with it" "Many of our staff weren't born when Windows 98 came out" "Oh, man I am old"

[@KatzRool]

Surname "Young"... Yet no DP... Curious....

[@-JustHuman-]

Wait 98 is seen as "old"..... Cries in 95'

[@Turt3752]

I’m 21, born in 01, my first OS was XP, and by the time I got into middle school most computers were struggling with the POS that was W8. I’m graduating with my Bachelor’s degree this spring. :)

[@xthetenth]

My immediate thought was "that's not that old, my first windows was 3.11". My second thought was "Oh no."

[@heinrichagrippa5681]

@@KatzRool And in the video itself: Anthony *Young* ∞ Years old

[@fisherdotogg]

I always seem to forget how knowledgeable Emily is, always a treat to see her in a video, hope she returns to the camera someday

[@schaf7716]

Little tech tip for everyone out there: pressing ctrl + shift + esc will bring up Task Manager with a kernel call. So if your kernel isn't dead yet (which it hopefully isn't) you can always open task manager (it will still have to load of course)

[@rubiconnn]

Also in Windows 8 and newer, if you press control+alt+delete you can force an "emergency restart" by holding control and clicking the power button. This will force an immediate hard reset instead of gracefully shutting down Windows.

[@schaf7716]

@@rubiconnn yep, that's helped me a lot of times lol

[@JesusProtects]

@@rubiconnn are this kind of things explained on the manual?

[@Gurj101]

@@JesusProtects I don't think there is a manual any longer.

[@InvisibleSquids]

@@Gurj101 Manual is an ambiguous FAQ section that is impossible to reach on Microsofts website. Mostly everything I've ever found to be helpful was in forums and blog posts because Microsoft is one of the kingpins of being unhelpful

[@irencsak]

Me throughout most of this: oh man, yeah I remember this, love seeing the responses. Then at 7:23 "Dial up, what is dial up?" I suddenly had to turn up my audio to full blast, felt two discs in my spine start to fuse together, I blew out my knee, broke my hip, spat out 62% of my teeth, and now my skin looks like the seat to a well overused leather couch.

[@StormWarningMom]

Yeah, I think I'm older than Anthony so I hear you on the age thing. Nonetheless, it's pretty fun to watch the next generation tinker with what I had to work with as a young adult.

[@ibigfire]

I assumed that was a joke. I'm only just now realizing it likely wasn't. Shazbot.

[@SilverDusk1]

I was like "how does he not know??". I'm only 2 years older than him and had to suffer through it.

[@Maxxis1992]

That’s so nostalgic. My grandpa was a PC freak and bought me my first PC in 95 with Windows 95. I was 3 years old back then and remember playing Mamba and Hover. Also all the nostalgic DOS Games. Damn this brings back memories. RIP best grandpa :(

[@bradpd]

Ah yes, Hover! I got addicted.

[@eraserta]

i loved hover, and my grandparents bought me n my brother our first pc around 96, AST Adventure 400 series. we had a blast.

[@Maxxis1992]

@@eraserta I also can’t get the starting melody from Windows 95 out of my head haha. That’s the most amazing sound for me. It was more “special” than the melody from W98 imo.

[@Xendrius]

blasting starcraft demo on my windows 98 was epic.

[@aceoyame2619]

Thanks for making me feel ancient. I was only born in 1990. My favorite memory of 98 is being 10 years old and calling ATI for help trying to figure out why my Rage XL card I bought wouldn’t work. Turns out it was a resource conflict and they were actually able to help.

[@CineGoodog]

Wait....something is wrong here mate

[@aceoyame2619]

@@CineGoodog what’s wrong with that? I had 98 installed in 2000

[@alexwalker2582]

Ugh, you were able to convince your parents to install a graphics card? I was stuck with anything that DIDN'T require one....until we got our windows XP computer and a friend of the family bought a Geforce card that had a copy of Battlefield 1942 with it for me. My mom was so mad, but thankfully she didn't really understand computer games at that point.

[@Fanta....]

prob just had to go into the card driver settings and change the IRQ to something else... I remember learning that stuff at college.... lmfao

[@Ch1spy4]

I'm only 28 and this hit me right in the nostalgia! I opened up an old PC my buddy and I played on 20 plus years ago. 4 GB hard drive...

[@reoencarcelado5904]

@Chris-Hack: Try a Pentium-1 processor with 166 megahertz *WITHOUT* MMX-technology and 24 megabytes of "Standard EDO"-Ram with "Pipeline Burst cache" and a 2.5 gigabyte hard-drive and a 33.6kbps modem. @Daniel: I never heard mine.

[@justus9694]

@@Frank_Pods def check out the 'floppotron' on yt if you don't know it yet

[@bmo3778]

I'm even younger than you, but due to the late adoption of technology in my childhood, I did get to experience win 98 when i was little

[@maistooo]

They make me feel I'm so old although I am only 36 years old. I remember working with win98 when I was a child.

[@Marcin_Kubicki]

I'm with you on this.

[@BradiKal61]

thanks for making me feel even OLDER. i remember when computers filled entire rooms and having a computer in your home was reserved for a Danny Dunn adventure books

[@indee105]

Remeber v3.1?

[@jameshaynes8566]

I'm right there with you. Now who else remembers Reading Rabbit? Or Ultima on the 5.25 in floppy disks?

[@vanyadolly]

I'd say the same, but I'm just glad I got to experience it 😭My mom's first computer was a black and white 3.11, and I remember the gripping excitement of Paint In black and white.

[@xlerb2286]

I spent so many hours working with Win98 I think I could plop down in front of a Win 98 box and pick right up where I left off. I wrote device drivers in those days. Mainly keyboard, mouse, and block storage (hard drive) drivers. It was a lot of fun, but also as frustrating as could be. And in those days you didn't have the development resources online like we do no. MSDN was a set of CDs and it wasn't very good, and that was about it other than knowing someone who knew someone :)

[@hjf3022]

I am an IT tech and I still use DxDiag whenever I need to know specs or model of a Windows computer, it's incredibly handy, and I can't think of a quicker way to get that amount of information.

[@smudgeous4068]

Yeah, I was about to post the same thing. I'm a software engineer who serves as "the guy who knows how nightly builds work" at my company, and not all of the build machines are identically configured. Whenever dealing with Windows machines, dxdiag is my tool of choice. I've used it at least half a dozen times in 2022

[@waltciii3]

Thanks. I've forgotten so much!

[@TheCoffeeSquirel]

Im the goto tech guy in the family, Ive been using DxDiag since 2008 I think. I remember using these operating systems, but Im not sure which versions. I feel like I missed out on alot, even though I was born in 95 x)

[@Xitrial]

Aida64? But yeah if it's a tool that's already there sure

[@WisteriaBerlitz]

I went from DxDiag to Task Manager (on Win 10), it's faster and shows me what I need to know most of the time If not I'll use Speccy for more info

[@Gremalkin1979]

This makes me feel old. My first system was MsDos and windows 3.1. Still remember helping all my friends add the win command to autoexec.bat so windows 3.1 automatically launched as you started MsDos.

[@JohnMHazlewood]

Yep and my first HDD was a 20 meg spinning drive that cost a small fortune and I was told I would never fill! Come to think of it I don't think I did lol.

[@reoencarcelado5904]

@Krister-Pettersson: My first time using a computer were some Apple-2-Macintosh computers (that's what it said in front of the desktop-computer-cases; apparently the models we had were for-schools-&-businesses only, because I tried looking them up online and I couldn't find any pictures of what we had :'( . It had only a-floppy-drive though, and it was on-the-computer's--right-hand-side (your left, if you were staring at the computer)), back in 3rd grade. Remember when you were considered[/called/told] "ooo lucky you" if you were the one who had a color-printer on your computer? . And remember when you had to type "win" in the MS-DOS Command-Prompt that appeared when you turned-on your computer-that-had-Windows-3.1-installed-on-it, so you could boot-into-Windows? That was pretty cool .

[@dubious6718]

The first system I played on was a Commodore 64, in the 80s. (or something similar..)

[@kolppi]

I remember going from MS-DOS to Windows 95 was an incredible jump, probably didn't appreciate enough as a kid. The games were great in that era: Command & Conquer, Warcraft 2, Mortal Kombat 3, Duke Nukem 3D, Tie fighter, Dark Forces, Star Control 2, Worms,.. Nostalgia highway!

[@xlerb2286]

Shadow Warrior was big at work. Everyone played it when work was over for the day. IT got grumpy about the network use so we just brought in our own hub and cables. They still didn't like it, but the company bigwigs had given us the OK so all they could do is give us dirty looks.

[@alexandersh86]

> Star Control 2 I see you're a man of culture as well.

[@TH3HY3N4]

The golden age. :3

[@michaelmoss5476]

After years of DOS, I jumped into windows at version 3.1. Before Windows, I loved networking Duke Nukem 3D and playing with my kids. Windows 3.1 came on like 7 floppy discs if I recall correctly. Wow, times have changed. 😎

[@drivinginchina4598]

I thought Windows 95 was the best. I know I also used 98 but I couldn't remember it as 95

[@johnscurich6446]

In my company, we still use several computers with 98 because if it's stability. We run our own written programs that crunch polling data. We tried updating our programs to Windows 7 and 10 and experienced far too many bugs. Our IT guys say 98 is so simple that they can fix any issues for decades to come.

[@Eliksed]

The most surprising part of this video was finding out Jake was born in 2000?! I could have swore he was at least a few years older than I. (also born in 2000)

[@whossuperpsychedelics788]

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[@sakamoto8354]

Same. At first I thought he was in his late 20s but seeing he was born in 2000, I'm surprised.

[@PickyPaige]

Same to both @PsN-Productionz and @ Saka Moto I am completely shocked as a 2000 kid myself!

[@easyasabc0]

A tip for Sound Recorder: in order to record more than 60 seconds easily, make a 60 second recording, Then, use the dropdown menu's to slow the track 100%, and it will double the length to 120 secs, keep doubling till you have all the room you need, move the slider to the beginning, and start your recording.

[@BobbyDoesMusic]

Came here to say this, I used to do that all the time!

[@gshaw0]

I used to record 20 seconds of silence and copy it multiple times, this is what I miss about modern computing 😄

[@Hexen_Wulf]

I thought you could also let the recording max out and then instead of playing the file from the beginning, you drag the slider all the way to the end and hit record again until it runs out again.

[@TheAbandonedAccount7]

I used to make it record the line in that had nothing in it and slow it down and the recording made a weird repetitive chiptune melody

[@IrisCorven]

I remember doing this, but I also remember another way to do it possibly? I think if you stopped the recording, or hit the stop button before the end, you could click "record" again and it'd give you another 60 seconds. I can't remember if that was on stock Sound Recorder, or if it was the first version of Audacity.

[@MYuee]

When I heard dxdiag I felt like I just met an old friend I had totally forgotten about. We spent a lot of time together because our PC wasn't working very well in terms of games. Memories.

[@Hostile_Design]

Haha, same here. As soon as I heard the word, some dopamine was released xD.

[@amvlabs5339]

i still run dxdiag to this day as a first step to see system specs, can't believe Linus of all people doesn't use it it's so convenient

[@milantancik]

@@amvlabs5339 Yup, 100% my go-to for accurate system specs on any Windows to this day.

[@fdwr]

😮 I didn't realize it was that old (still use it today to see GPU specs).

[@Buklen]

@@amvlabs5339 same, its the easiest way I know what GPU the PC is running.

[@mikebahrami]

7:21 "Dial up? What's dial up?" God I feel old.

[@MetalAcitistJim]

I remember playing with all these settings, I liked how every folder was treated like its own webpage and was nearly completely customizable for each one

[@jackkraken3888]

I suspect part of the code is still there in windows, I remember adding a customer image to a folder in either Windows 10 or Windows 7.

[@warrenpuckett4203]

I liked OS2 better. M$ made customizing 95 and on much more difficult. I did not have time to play that game. OS2 was like driving a stick shift. You control the transmission. Instead of the transmission controlling you.

[@koozmusic]

Haha... I *hated* that and disabled it as part of any routine post-install. Explorer with the directory tree on the left and details pane on the right is still the "correct" way to manage files for me. 🤓

[@ThreadBomb]

Yeah, one good thing about 98, and XP after it, was how incredibly customizable the visual parameters of the windows were. Now you can't really do anything without some third-party app.

[@4k-os]

@@koozmusic Also: show file extensions, show hidden files

[@AndrewWorkshop]

My 486 had a turbo button that would toggle from 10 to 40 MHz so older games would play properly.

[@potatopack]

same i had a 386 sx33. i think it had similar using dos3.11

[@TorutheRedFox]

*40 to 10 which is really counter intuitive and confused a lot of people lol

[@ikannunaplays]

@@TorutheRedFox Turbo off would be 10, turbo on would be 40, this is how it worked so it was very intuitive actually.

[@mpxz999]

Windows 98 was a magical time of my life. I remember being so excited each month to watch my brother play the games from the PCGAMER monthly demo discs

[@magreger]

Me too! Except I was the brother! Lol

[@BxTekNurd]

Dude. I got in to FEAR from the demo 😂 I remember playing it multiple times and showing my mate. Sad but true I never did finish the third one 😥 I reinstalled windows back in the day and got back into it. But it's always been on my mind to do just that.... 🤔 Maybe... One day 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@xuaxace]

the demo days were magical for sure

[@aesemon5392]

I would buy more games if they had demos. Against the storm is a great example. The chance you can get a real feel of a game being a keeper in the short time you can try before returning is low.

[@DOSStorm]

Yeah sometimes I feel like we get smothered in content today to the point that its less exciting. Steam is awesome but, EVERY DISC or piece of media for a home PC was exciting in the 90s. The fact that demos and content weren't just a quick download away made them more precious. That and you played the same demo 400 times because that was all you had lol.

[@Redpaperrose]

Anyone else remember the hidden teapots easter egg in the 3d pipes screensaver?

[@alexmader7930]

Anthony is like a wise man living at the top of the mountain who gets visitors asking for his wisdom.

[@DutchGuyMike]

Classical intelligent INTP!

[@hawksights]

Totally Dadsplaining :D

[@redhoodplays768]

lmao infinite years=infinite wisdom

[@JavaBum]

Show me one thing that wasn't already spoon fed to him that was Win anything. He's no guru; he's a guy that was given a computer that had 98 installed because it took more effort than a wim 7 to 10 machine.

[@Asymmetrical-Saggin]

@@JavaBum Who hurt you as a child? lmfao 😂😂

[@crystalyzzed]

Love everybody guessing and Antony giving a detailed lesson of every feature.

[@d0natr0n47]

The nerdiest/cool thing you could do with Sound Recorder was if you recorded yourself saying your name backwards and then used the edit menu to reverse it your name would sound correct...it was insane!

[@midsega]

Endless fun! We also had a mini-cassette voice recorder & would record ourselves in hi-speed and then play it back on sloooow, or vice versa

[@jonmcdaniel8492]

I used to do that. I got good at saying whole sentences backwards. My buddy said it sounded like my computer was possessed.

[@svenmorgenstern9506]

Used that to record the "demon voices" from ELO's "Fire on High", then reverse it. Lots of fun! 👍

[@Kelvin.id.]

I so did this back then ^^. Also tried to revert music and see if I could find anything hidden.

[@rustymixer2886]

@@Kelvin.id. did u find anything

[@WavingWorld]

Holy shnikes, Anthony, you're a wizard. I typed "Windows + R" and then "msinfo32" into the run command and a window for "System Information" popped up immediately.

[@Username_Invalid]

In 9th grade I made a very nice PowerPoint for our Marine Science project that was about 30 slides long. Come to find out I didn’t realize our school computers didn’t let you use thumb drives as the drivers weren’t installed. So I ended up using 4 floppy drives and splitting my PowerPoint so they could fit on the floppies and then copying them over just before the presentation. Kids have it to easy now lol 😂

[@0783155]

​@@wherethetreegrows 4GB was already incredible. I remember my parents needing to save up some money to buy me a 8 Mb USB drive 😂

[@CollinLutz-p9e]

I was doing PowerPoint in 5th or 6th if I remember correctly. Before that it was all Macintosh machines with those huge thin black floppy disks and the green text on the screen.

[@gefaehrlich]

​@@07831554gb? yeah a floppy disc would hold like 1mb or so

[@88porpoise]

Two things I am sad not to see here: The 3D maze screensaver was arguably better than the pipes. Chip's Challenge, Ski Free and the other Microsoft Entertainment Pack games were freaking awesome.

[@tams805]

I have very fond memories of Ski Free.

[@soad11dude]

YES! I was wondering if someone else would be sad to see a lack of 3D maze screen saver

[@PepsT]

3D Maze-ter race

[@magzpayne]

​@@tams805 The ski jump was [sic]!

[@cokeacolasucks]

Those games required bowep: best of windows entertainment!

[@blubba818]

It’s amazing how much of a difference a couple years makes. I definitely used Windows 98, but XP was what I used most in school. We may have upgraded to 7 by the time I was finishing high school, but I don’t remember.

[@RockyOutcrop]

17:37 I know the game you mean, it wasn't the one you showed here though. Man, it was great. Wish you had found the right clip to use!!!

[@dg-hughes]

Going from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 was a massive change. I felt like I was in the future. Active Desktop was amazing but most people were on dial-up capped at 60 hours/month at $1 per hour $60.

[@Wrathlon]

Active Desktop was incredibly underrated.

[@moonshinershonor202]

N we was grateful for that hour of surfing.

[@rodU65]

I remember being a kid were they teach us w 3.11 (35 years old now), people had not idea how to use the mouse. My fist computer has MsDos and the 5.1 floppy disks.

[@ThreadBomb]

My dad gave me his old laptop running Windows 3.1. It was a heavy brick with a tiny screen, but so incredibly solid and optimised. And I bet if I booted up that old brick now it would still run, because it was built to last.

[@TheSimoc]

Yep, and then going to XP was almost equally massive change. After which, every next version has been even more massive change backwards, towards stone age. We would really need to revert into minute-billed dial-up connections for a while to force stupid software developers to bring back the efficient, professional coding.

[@neoc03]

I love the lore developing around Anthony "infinite years old"

[@jackielinde7568]

Being Infinite Years Old myself, I felt a kinship... and felt being called out.

[@Hoto74]

I guess it also a joke because of his incredible knowledge, so it feels a bit he is like an old wise man. :D

[@NWinnVR]

There really is something special about the old WinStart sounds.. They just hit different when you grew up with them.

[@SebastianMares]

Yes! So true! Nostalgia

[@KoRbA2310]

18:00 Some of the older games that you can still play on modern computers have a similar problem where the scrolling speed is tied to FPS, what you usually have to do is lock the FPS to 60 using rivatuner. One of the examples is the game I love going back to and spend many hours on Port Royale 2

[@tomstdenis]

18:50 that texture mapping is known as "affine mapping" and it was done because you don't need to divide by the texels z co-ordinate to get the correct u,v co-ordinate. What this meant is that surfaces that approach the camera very quickly become skewed as the stepping through the texture is incorrect for the perspective. It wasn't because they liked this it's because division is very very very very slow. It's why GPU's have a lot of hardware into quick reciprocals, etc.