2.5MB in 14 seconds, don’t think I’ve seen such a high download speed on Windows 9X in my life
I don’t miss those times, the 9X series was so bad, MS was right to ditch it after canning ME. Bluescreens, a shitty filesystem, no concept of security, dll hell, every time someone comes along with “remember how simple / great computing was back in the day” I want to scream in their face
I was already running linux then, but I booted windows to run games and got to experience its laughable “multitasking” and poor networking stack. It really wasn’t great, but it worked, I suppose.
What surely is interesting is that Microsoft was somehow somewhat visionary with their usage of browser technology for the desktop. We see Windows Update running in the browser, there was Active Platform which included Active Desktop (very prone to crashes), they had ActiveX (shudder). In a way all ideas they abandoned but that were implemented somewhere else later and better. Not saying these ideas were good.
Getting retroactively jealous here. I was in 56 kbit/s until ADSL hit. But hey, had full duplex gigabit Ethernet Internet at University from 2007 until 2011 to make up for it. It’s never been the same since
2.5MB in 14 seconds, don’t think I’ve seen such a high download speed on Windows 9X in my life
I don’t miss those times, the 9X series was so bad, MS was right to ditch it after canning ME. Bluescreens, a shitty filesystem, no concept of security, dll hell, every time someone comes along with “remember how simple / great computing was back in the day” I want to scream in their face
I was already running linux then, but I booted windows to run games and got to experience its laughable “multitasking” and poor networking stack. It really wasn’t great, but it worked, I suppose.
What surely is interesting is that Microsoft was somehow somewhat visionary with their usage of browser technology for the desktop. We see Windows Update running in the browser, there was Active Platform which included Active Desktop (very prone to crashes), they had ActiveX (shudder). In a way all ideas they abandoned but that were implemented somewhere else later and better. Not saying these ideas were good.
From ~windows 2000 to windows arguably either 7 or 8, kinda, for some things.
i was on a T3 back in those days. it was peak
Getting retroactively jealous here. I was in 56 kbit/s until ADSL hit. But hey, had full duplex gigabit Ethernet Internet at University from 2007 until 2011 to make up for it. It’s never been the same since
I lived right next to a college. It was nice.