NGL: the download animation was peak.

14sec 13sec 12sec 11sec 9sec 8sec 7sec 60sec 61sec 62sec 61sec 33years 1sec (Pause for 12minutes) Done

I used windows 95 an hour ago because the control system for some lab equipment runs on it. Its actually super snappy and reactive. Boots in like 10 seconds even on that old ass hardware.

And we were right.

hey, that version had a working control panel

We were right. It didn’t get better.

95-XP was peak

modem lag. even at 56kbs. no wonder average user never updated.

When I was in college, in network class, the teacher was talking about level of service, package reordering and the challenges of streaming videos through a network. Internet was starting and we were still using 14400 modems (which, by the way, was already considered fast). Throughout that class I was thinking why the hell I was studying that king of problems with our speeds.

I would have done shameful things for that dl speed in 1998.

Yes, thankfully now M$ serves ads in the start screen, priorities cloud saves over the bare metal on the machines s/hdd, captures images of every task a user performs, and controls when the user can use the PC through automatic updates. The future is 🤩

It got slightly better then worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. I miss the win9x days, they should have gone with longhorn build, that was cool that one.

The only thing I miss about Windows is that exact downloading information. XP also had a very nice one. GNOME is nice, but man, I liked that animation.

We went from “Wow It’s doing a lot of things right there!” to “Ugh… it’s doing a lot of things right there”

Windows 8 invented “searching by typing”

Back the you could not search for the application you wanted to open, you had to search it by clicking start - programs - the app itself