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Geek Culture / Windows through the ages

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Nickydude
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Posted: 21st Oct 2009 23:46
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Indicium
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Posted: 21st Oct 2009 23:50
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Its cool to see how windows changed from the basic gui of windows 1 to windows vista and 7.
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Darth Vader
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 04:06
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I didn't know that Windows 98 crashed at the press release! That's hilarious!

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Nickydude
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 04:09
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Darth Vader
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 04:23
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ROFL!
So funny! Thanks Nickydude!

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Zeus
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 06:33
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bond1
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 09:45 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2009 09:46
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The Gates does not look amused. I wonder who got fired over that?

"You'll notice that this scanner...woahhhhh." BSOD, lol.

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puppyofkosh
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 13:55
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That was as bad as when one of the computers blue screened at the olympics in China
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jeffhuys
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 14:14
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I always love that youtube movie... But I also feel kinda sad for Gates ... Nah, more love than sadness I think.

Moving right along!

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borngamer
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 14:16
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Man I feel old now! I actually remember playing with Windows 1 when it came out. I worked in a computer store at the time and spent a fair bit of time tinkering with stuff like this. Of course, Windows wasn't really much of anything until Windows 3.1 and the earlier versions weren't much more than DOS menu systems.

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jeffhuys
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 14:19
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I was ~3 (If I "remember" correctly) when I sat on my brothers lap to interact with a PC for the very first time. Three years old!

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Nickydude
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 18:26
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Thanks Zeus, never knew there were so many incarnations of Windows.



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Zeus
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 18:28
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Quote: "Thanks Zeus, never knew there were so many incarnations of Windows."


I had no idea either until I stumbled upon it last night. But no problem.

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David R
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 21:25 Edited at: 22nd Oct 2009 21:27
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Quote: "I had no idea either until I stumbled upon it last night. But no problem"


I would be a bit weary of that video, purely because some of the dates are completely wrong (e.g. 1985 for NT 3.5 - yeah right! ) not to mention stuff like Chicago are just codenames for releases (Chicago is Win95)

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RedneckRambo
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 21:43
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I'd never even heard of some of the windows in that video. Windows Longhorn? I actually really liked the look of Longhorn though lol.

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David R
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Posted: 22nd Oct 2009 21:44
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Longhorn was Vista's codename. Initially it was based on XP but then it was silently scrapped and rebuilt atop of 2k3.

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Yodaman Jer
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Quote: "Longhorn was Vista's codename. Initially it was based on XP"


They should have left it based on XP, it looked cool. It would have been a bit more stable, too.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 23rd Oct 2009 07:07
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I think 2k3 server is more stable than XP. But as far as visuals go, XP looked ugly until you turned off the "fisher-price" look.

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Yodaman Jer
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Quote: "...as far as visuals go, XP looked ugly until you turned off the "fisher-price" look."


So that's what it always reminded me of! Lol, yeah, when I got my own user account on the family computer, I immediately went into settings and changed the theme to "Windows Classic", and changed the colors to "Marine" or whatever it was.

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Jeku
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Posted: 24th Oct 2009 08:17
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For some reason a bunch of MS' Windows codenames are named after mountains in B.C. Whistler, Blackcomb, Longhorn... apparently popular ski mountains for the staff


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Mahoney
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Posted: 25th Oct 2009 00:14
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Quote: "They should have left it based on XP, it looked cool. It would have been a bit more stable, too."


Trust me: be glad it wasn't based on XP.

Quote: "For some reason a bunch of MS' Windows codenames are named after mountains in B.C. Whistler, Blackcomb, Longhorn... apparently popular ski mountains for the staff"


They are, actually. The higher-ups take vacation there quite often, from what I've heard.

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Indicium
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Posted: 25th Oct 2009 00:32
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Quote: "Trust me: be glad it wasn't based on XP. "


Why?
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 25th Oct 2009 01:04 Edited at: 25th Oct 2009 01:06
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Security. One of the biggest complaints with XP was "oh no, virus" or "oh no, malware" because of the lack of effective permissions, redundancy, etc...

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Indicium
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Posted: 25th Oct 2009 01:33
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Never had any problems with XP personally, with vista, ive had to reinstall it twice, then got sick of the damn thing.
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jeffhuys
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Posted: 25th Oct 2009 01:46
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Quote: "Never had any problems with XP personally, with vista, ive had to reinstall it twice, then got sick of the damn thing. "

I haven't had any problems with windows so far (from 3.11 to 7). Sure, sometimes it would freeze itself for like what, 10 minutes and that's it.
Guess I'm just lucky?

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Indicium
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Posted: 25th Oct 2009 01:54
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Vista sucks.
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Deathead
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Posted: 25th Oct 2009 01:29 Edited at: 25th Oct 2009 01:31
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Vista is great.



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Indicium
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hmm, turn my caps lock off?

first ive heard of it being on
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