windows has normalized all that shit so well that this image is genuinely disturbing compared to the win 11 start menu. I am glad my windows days ended years ago
What’s it called when you backport modern features to retro systems like this mockup? I swear there’s a word for this…
I think you’re looking for “anachronism”: A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists.
Retroshittification
Backtrackarrhea
Backport-a-potty
oh my god brilliant
Ok…someone do this but in an Atari 2600 theme. I wanna see what loot boxes and modern gaming shit would look in 160x192 128 color resolution.
Demake?
It would be awesome if there was a community focused on that
Be the change you wish to see in the world
I’d call it techlapse
You could substantially de-uglify XP with a different theme, but, damn…that ugly
Don’t care what anybody says about how much they loved XP that shit was always ugly.
Functional though, you could just open your start menu and find what you wanted immediately instead of typing to search for it like I have been doing for the last 5-10 years
I had a cool grey and orange theme it was sexy, looked like a pack of Marlboro Black
Which one, black or silver?
Homestead
I preferred Yahoo Messenger to Windows solely due to the ROTFLMAO emoji… it kicked ass. Made me giggle every time I used it.
You missed out on hella custom emoticons. Had hundreds of "lol"s
Edit: and nudges lol
Yes!!!
It’s fantastic.
Did it kick the llama’s ass?
Surfing away with an administrator account.
Trying to teach my in-laws not to do that was impossible.
Maybe it was just easier to install those browser bars as admin.
That is the sole reason the UAC exists in post-Vista Windows.
I crave retro futuristic. The flesh craves nostalgia. Also… pentiums and 512mb of ram would have fucking been cooked if they tried this lmao
Honestly though can we go back to the days or at least adopt design philosophies where the entire OS, programs, and everyday browsing could fit on just that much ram
Think about the Pentium versions of the Celeron, too. XP was their peak time.
RETVRN
Windows is ideal for experts, Twilight Zone lovers and desire for adventure, for the rest Linux is better (In the beginning it was the other way around, the first Distros even caused some suicids)
Look how they massacred my boy…
I love the attention to detail, putting the upsell “30days of msn premium” between the “star” and “all programs” buttons beautiful.
Since at that time these shits weren’t really normalized, I can imagine some people would actually like these things and maybe even use them. It would have feel… kinda modern? If that makes sense… (tho when I first saw XP after using 95 and 98 in my life at that point, it felt absolutely super-duper modern x3)
I like this image - it is really nicely done. I don’t like what it represents, but the image itself is decent.
Given that this was the prime time for Bonzi Buddy, I’m inclined to say I agree with you. People chose these things years ago, because it added more to the experience outside of “here is your word processor, here is notepad, here are the three games you have to play”.
And Bonzi even was a 3rd party thing. Now imagine that shit, just built into the system by that time. 😅
Heck, even MSN Browser was a thing and I’m pretty sure just because it said “Good afternoon” or some shit when you launched it.
I remember seeing AOL on Win3.11 (I had been using telnet, pine, lynx.) and it looked like a bunch of spam ads.
XP
Some Microsoft exec somewhere: “WRITE THAT DOWN”
They will distribute this image and say: “See? It has always been this way…”
The little shield next to the turn off computer icon implying it’ll update it without asking is a nice touch
