And then the 1602 screen doubled that up again. I loved that game, but I could never figure out how to load soldiers into ships. I suddenly want to play it again.
I remember upgrading my video card ram from 1MB to 2MB, I needed it to run 1024 x 768 at 16m color from 800 x 600. The shop owner just searched the 1MB vram from his drawer, then insert it to my video card, then voila glorious 1024 x 768 @16million colors!
When we upgraded our first Windows 95 PC to a 4GB hard drive, we partitioned it into 4x1GBish partitions; I think they were formated FAT16 for some reason. Good times.
1987 i got sent to the principles office because i hacked the main pc of the school and saw files i shouldnt have seen lmfao back in the day when security was nil.. and this was from a classroom on either a bbc or a mac
Dezmo Bluefire newer laptops are going back to that now, dell, lenovo, hp, etc putting the power and main ports like hdmi on the back while ports like usb c and headphone jacks are on the side
Well the 1st computer I used that is windows xp + 512 mb ram + 99 gb hard drive and the 1st game that played is its either Need for speed ( 1st or old version) and Progect I.G.I 1
@@seucheanemone5652 actually now the whole India is full of youth. Majority of people's ages is between 18-40. Thats why the internet and mobile phones is booming in India. World's all major companies Including Google , Apple , amazon all investing money in India specially for mobile phones. We use 4g now. Hope we get 5g in next year. But in the rural or village or old aged people or poor people still use 2g or 3g. India has 1.5 billion people. So majority of people use 4G. But we can't completely stop 2g or 3g. Even our internet plan comes with Daily 1.5 GB daily 4g + unlimited 2G ( after the 100% Use of 4g data + 100 sms daily + unlimited call daily to anyone ( with in in india Landline or mobile) + access to all premium apps for free . But the best thing is in the 2G or 3G era we paid for call , sms , internet , apps . And the prise was too high. I can remind 1gb 3g pack cost 300 rupees = 3.38 Euro for 28 days validity. But now we give money for internet only. Other services are free. And the lowest internet pack that is 1.5gb daily costs 5 rupees for a day which is equal to 0.056 EURO. Hope Germany will get 4G and 5G soon. Tell me the price of telecom services in Germany or how telecom operators looting you ? By the way Germany is my favourite nation in Rise of Nation Game ( its a pc offline game like age of empires , clash of clans)
God, I love how...genuinely excited he gets while going over the laptop. You don't really see that much on youtube these days, it's actually a little refreshing
Suddenly it's 1998 and I'm back in my freshman year at college with my brand new Toshiba laptop (a high school graduation gift) playing Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D in my dorm room. Just a few years later I'd be swapping horrible-sounding, low res MP3's via my Zip drive to be played in Winamp (It really whips the llama's ass!) on a pair of crappy Altec Lansing computer speakers. Ah, simpler times.
In 1998 I was 11, our home computer was an IBM Aptiva 95 (I loved that PC) it came with a software bundle including games Caesar II and Pitfall The Mayan Adventure among other programs like Encyclopedia Encarta 96. Other games I had were the original Command & Conquer, Wolfenstein 3D, Worms, Virtua Fighters and others I don't recall. By 2001 I got a new PC, a clone tower computer with Windows XP, an upgrade for my gaming and multimedia experience and of course, I downloaded loads of MP3's, my music folder was Nü Metal galore and a lot of Industrial Rock and Grunge, Korn, Limb Bizkit, NiN, Marilyn Manson, The Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Rammstein, you name it. Good times.
Old technology was made by dreamers. Now everyone plays it safe. There's no charm anymore. I still remember how having a Nokia 9000 Communicator felt like something out of The Matrix. Good times lol. Now it's the same smartphone with improved specs over and over. I'm excited for the Steam Deck tho.
@@TheDorianTube true. Or maybe technology advancement has been in a stall lately, not exactly in a stall because they are still getting better very quickly, more like we get more than enough of what we can use. Back in the day there was so much room for improvement that every few years we got stuff we never dream of. But right now every device cater everything we need and even more we don't feel like anything changes anymore.
@@TheDorianTube Things like foldable smartphones these days, which I never thought would exist in a million years but they do. Infact the smartphone itself is something made from dreams.
@@TheDorianTube The problem is that in the 80s and 90s the satanist cabal (Soros, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Astor) were too busy installing dictators in central american, african and south asian countries and didn't care too much about the fledling micro-computer market. But by the mid 2000s and early 2010s they started to factor the tech industry into their "one true way" for EVERYTHING that goes on in society and decided on the exact types and formfactors of technologies that would be allowed, hence why NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO MAKE ANY COMPUTER SYSTEM IN ANY FORM, TYPE OR COLOR NOR ANY OS WITH ANY INTERFACE APPEARANCE OR DEGREE OF APPEARANCE CUSTOMIZABILITY OUTSIDE OF THEIR IMPOSED CANON.
Yeah the moment he said that I knew he meant nudies. Hell as a kid I was printing a picture to have offline and the God damn printer froze up and wouldn't work... It worked for my mom a couple weeks later though.... Very awkward times. That's the struggles of only having one device that connects to the internet though... In the damn living room at that... Cellphones were a godsend to all kids. Lucky bastard.
Sean C. Definitely this was upgraded, my first computers had cartridges and tapes but my first HD was also 20 megs but only 10 where recognized and it was far enough, with DOS you had enough on a floppy to put the OS and 5 games, a 5 1/4 floppy
Love your enthusiasm Linus! Thanks for bringing to life some of the genuine excitement of that era in tech. I can still remember how excited I was to get a second-hand CD burner (with a missing faceplate) from my art teacher so I could burn my very first CD of Beatles music that I had dubbed into Sound Recorder from a boombox playing a cassette tape, which in turn was recorded by my dad off the radio from a show celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' arrival in America. Then actually playing that CD in the boombox, thinking I had just pwned the system. Those were the days!
"One thing I liked to do when I was a teenager was look at pictures" *goes on to talk about how badly the display handles skin tone* I understand linus, I understand.
"Plug & Pray" was also called for the automatic configuration of addon cards, not just USB. Back in the days when free IRQs, DMAs et cetera could be counted with your fingers.
My first PC was IBM Aptiva "pizzabox", 486SX/33 with whopping 4MB of RAM and 270MB HDD. Mom bought me 8MB RAM comb for good school success. I bought 512kB videoram chip, doubling it's videoram, lol. Having Gpu in Vesa-bus, it played some games faster than friend's 486DX2/66, which used ISA for Gpu.
You actually *can* upgrade that old thing to have WiFi on it. There were PCMCIA WiFi cards available in the early 2000s, which were compatible with any laptop that had PCMCIA slots. I had one.
There’s just something beautiful about the datedness of these windows computer systems. Probably it’s how immersive they felt especially when I was younger, despite their comparatively low grade performance and hardware and software. My family would use these till their end of life, which is how you continue to appreciate them for what they’re worth
@@SerterSerter Instead you had to waste time to install everything on it because a mouse needed drivers and two resets for them to work. But there was a lot to customize, nowadays Windows doesn't even remember folder layout and doesn't have any themes. It took time to make evything work properly and in the end was more apreciated and cared for.
@@draconpost i mean everything still needs drivers, they're just either automatically downloaded or the device will just default to general HID drivers
I have a laptop like this from 2007 that I haven't touched in over a decade, so recently I got curious if it still worked and Yes it did for a bit, I kept using it to test it occasionally and It was able to run TH-cam at 720P and worked with my modern internet....until it didn't. One day it just wouldn't connect and it's been that way ever since. (BTW i still own it tho) RIP old computer 2007- 2022
Its probably just faulty Nic card, you could try a wired connection to test it. I have an old Acer 6935g from 2008 and it still works amazingly. It plays 720p videos and can even emulate 3ds and Wii games. It was originally a budget gaming laptop though and could run Modern warfare 2 so that maybe why it still holds up well.
"One thing I've used my old Windows 95 laptop for is looking at pictures" We all did... the kind of pictures you didn't want your parents to find on your computer.
@@PrismGenesis So this system is gonna be the bog standard $800 budget. It's running 2TB of DDR7 in quad-channel (4x 512GB), so you're not gonna be doing serious video editing for even your regular 32k movies. It's got a 64-core, 9.6 GHz CPU from industry newcomer Aspira from their Aether range of mid-level, bang-for-your-buck CPUs... I could go on making random stuff up, but yeah...fun to do for a bit.
@@HaydenX ...the Vision Feeling and Smell Processing Unit (VFSPU) is of course made by industry leader Nvidia and is the cheapest unit that still features the brand new Raytracing 5.0 technology, along with 500 additional smells, and 700,000 more nerve ending simulators, for a much more immersive gaming experience. The Direct to Brain (DTB) helmet is from the new upstarts at Accurate Interfaces, and features 900,000 points of contact and space foam padding to ensure comfort and to create less sensory intrusion for even the most vigorous of games.
@@AG.Floats lol.. images so dithered trying to figure out what you were looking at was like looking at a magic eye poster until all of a sudden.. "WHOA! Vagina!" also.. Persian Kitty, anyone?
The Thinkpads have had non-removable batteries for a couple generations now sadly. Everything past the T440 has a soldered in CPU and they're even soldering RAM on some models now, including the T-Series. I've got a T440p myself and love it, but it's not able to run a lot of newer games which sucks. I'm considering just building a desktop rather than shelling out for one of the newer Thinkpads.
1:25 is the real old laptop experience for me. These old LCDs had very small viewing angles that two people sitting next to each other couldn't see the whole screen.
Windows 95 OSR2 (4.00.950 B), had USB via support via a small update. But OSR2 itself was never made available to end-users directly and was only sold through OEMs with the purchase of a new PC. I remember that getting a hold of the OEM disk to reformat to a "newer" Win95 was a thing.
do we all get excited? it is always pretty fun to visit childhood memories when life was easier and there was no stress, every day fun and joy. Try it yourself it's pretty fun and relaxing to visit those memories, you can use smell, sound and skill memories to bring back some of what you have allready forgotten. Those memories doesn't delete, they are always there even tho there are not in your longterm memory anymore, it cleans itself while you sleep so it doesn't get slow over time.
It was hard not to look at pictures while browsing the internet, popups were common and there was no pop up control till some time later, I remember talking to a fellow technician over the phone and discussing it, I said this one nude keeps popping up, he described the woman correctly, so every Christian browsing online would have seen the same thing, my wife hated me being online as she was in a cult, IT was my employment, so I had no choice.
I had a Gateway laptop like that. I thought it was awesome! It was the first and last laptop I've ever had. I only use desktops and tablets now. My wife still uses laptops. I loved Windows 95 and 98. Was great for running DOS games. Was a major upgrade from my 486 desktop PC. It was a fun to remove the ball from the mouse as a prank on friends. I hate how thin new laptops are. These thick laptops stayed cool, had great keyboards, lots of ports, drives, etc as you see. New laptops have so little to them hardware wise. Yep. Took a while to burn cds then. If you ripped and burned a music cd to a blank cd, it took as long to burn as it took to listen to the music cd. I played a lot of Seven Kingdoms on my laptop.
Yeah, I prefer laptops to be thick enough to be used as tank armor, and heavy enough to give someone a concussion. I want it to be able to survive a mace.
Thin laptops are pretty cool You still have thicker ones now, it is still a trade off between thinnest and most performing; with the most expensive having thicker keyboards, without that mcuh ghosting . Travel time is a present e issue Ultra books have quite a lot going on Expansion wise, you generally connecting something up, or add on the inside. like an external drive or an external GPU, either directly or with a dock
The lack of multi tasking actually made me switch back to console gaming for years. Programs running in the background causing stutters. After a while I preferred using my PS2 to my gaming pc. Both were on CRT's so no input lag and games physics were linked to the fps so many ran at 25, 30, 50 or 60 fps anyway regardless of platform. PC games did have a higher resolution but that doesn't matter that much in how much fun you have.
Ok, but where is the 1602 AD Let's Play by linus? This is a dead serious comment. I'd love to see him play without a bunch of edits (e.g. 10 minute video) :)
This was wonderful for me to see right now. Coming up on the first anniversary of my mom's death in a couple weeks, and I can still remember when she took me to get my first laptop in 1998 from Circuit City iirc. A Compaq Presario that looked just like this. Thanks for reminding me, that was a wonderful time spent with my mom.
Don't move the laptop around in the air whilst it's running!! That drive IS NOT SECURED WITH A SENSOR TO PARK IT AUTOMATICALLY WHEN IN MOTION. 6:30 ouch ouch ouch. :-(
@The Media Norman a resting area where it is hold in place and can't cause damage. so in that case it will be move when applied with outer force and that mean it can damage things if it wiggles around.
The reading heads on the hard disk can hit the platters. Modern hard drive “park” the heads moving them away from the disks when there is motion to stop them hitting on the metallic disks to prevent causing data loss and drive damage.
There are old desktops where you had to go into a program in dos and order the heads to park before moving it. Hell even old floppies you had to stick a protection piece of cardboard in it
@@xXRagingShadowXx12345 i dont hate them as they're useful in certain situations which require speed and accuracy/constancy. However, when it comes headphones and earphones wireless is so much better. making the audio jack obsolete...
@@ewanjb99 ah yes let me spend hundreds on something i can easily lose then spend hundreds more to get a second one and hundreds more again to replace it when i lose it, fine tactics good sir. i can agree about wireless headphones tho because they are much harder to lose and dont need a wire.
16:48 I remember listening to WarCraft 2, Total Annihilation and Dark Reign soundtracks on my Teac Diskman (While walking slowly to stop skips) :D This video is great, wish you guys did more of them or a series of 'older tech' because a lot of stuff you forget or take-for-granted these days.
When Linus mentioned data transfer via Infrared I remembered me and some friends sharing slipknot, mudvayne, Nightwish and some other bands songs with each other in the early 2000s that way. It sometimes took up to half an hour for one song. This was between phones.... I think mine was one of those orange and white Sony Walkman. Ah, the nostalgia!!!
I live in a third world country, so i played with an original xbox like monthly in 2013 with my cousin. I have played original ps and ps2 games and i just wanna say for FUCKS SAKE BRING SPLIT SCREEN MULTIPLAYER BACK I WANNA PLAY HALO STORY MODE WITH MY LITTLE COUSIN JUST LIKE MY OLDER COUSIN DID WITH ME!!!
I was given a CompaQ Armada a while back and it was fascinating. It actually helped me out as it bridged the gap between floppy and USB, which unlocked downloading DOS games for my 3.1 PC. Unfortunately I don't have the time or space to play with any of it these days but it's all still there.
Well, even if you don't have the time or space, there's DOS Box, and Virtual PC (Virtual Box), that can be downloaded and run from your current OS. You can load older OSes on that, or just use DOS Box, and use one machine for all that vintage gaming you might want to do. Hope this helped, even a little. :)
IIRC it wasn’t until the early to mid 2000s when they started horizontally mounting fans because the vertical fans couldn’t keep the newer processors cool enough.
They aren't "Vertically mounted fans" or horizontal fans... Newer laptops than that used squirrel cage fans, which fits into a smaller profile BUT also make more noise per CFM but they also had stronger static pressure. Before that normal fans would be used because it was thick enough to do that
@@joeythefoxxo fm transmitters are spotty at best in my experience. But cars used to have modular stereos, and there's lots of great options now to replace the control module with new ones that have apple carplay and android auto. Seriously most millennials and zoomers would save so much money buying a used car and changing out the radio unit for a few hundred bucks.
@@derpcon4212 I agree with you. Trust me I have a decked out system in my 2000 Chevy Impala. Full stereo overhaul, subwoofer, and an Apple CarPlay head unit. But with that comes a pretty hefty price tag upfront. My head unit alone was $350. Compare that to a decent fm transmitter for $20-$50. While I much prefer a wired connection, to some people there just isn’t the need for such an upgrade.
@@joeythefoxxo "head unit" shit that's the name lmao. It's still the morning and my brain hasn't woken up completely 🤣 And I agree with you about the cost. Tbh tho on my old car I just burned a buncha CDs like the OP talked about. Gave me less fuss than FM transmitters and the inconvenience wasn't as bad as it sounds
@@derpcon4212 I can see it working well for some, but I listen to a LOT of music. I mean I go through playlists everyday. I used to use discs but I got tired of the same music playing over and over. I burned whole albums on these CD’s too lol. I’m so much happier being able to change the music to whatever I want whenever I want. I feel bad with my technological privilege cause I can just hear my parents saying “back in my day you had to rewind the cassettes and you only had 10 songs each”.
The battery is at 14.4 V though, so it's a lot more energy than a 2700 mAh battery at 3.7 (or 4.4?) V for a phone. Ampere Hours suck at describing batteries because it's not a unit of energy. Wh (watt hour) is better for this and this battery would have 38.88 Wh of energy. Which is still not a lot for a laptop but it's more than the "2.7 AHr" might indicate at first. For comparison, a 4000 mAh battery at 3.7 V has 14.8 Wh of energy.
Thank you, his reaction to the battery specs is a bit strange to me. Considering my 2013 Macbook Air's battery is rated for 55Wh/7200mAh, this thing's battery is pretty solid even by today's standards, barring the size.
Honestly I'd take the internal power brick and all the other cool and great features this 25 year old laptop has to offer over an ultra-thin laptop. I think tech companies are less concerned with what the buyer will want/need and more concerned about what they want the buyer to want/need. I'd give anything to have an old thicc laptop like this one with modern graphics and internals.
"I haven't heard that sound in so long." Welcome to memory lane. Please walk with me as we reminisce of technology of yester-year. When RAM capacities measured in MB and floppy disks were the norm.
fun fact about that startup sound: brian eno wrote it. theindustryobserver.thebrag.com/the-odd-story-of-how-brian-eno-composed-the-windows-95-startup-sound/
I must have an old Win98 laptop somewhere that was given to me about 15 years ago. They thought it was still very usable then lol! I borrowed a laptop in '97 from my intern workplace for a day. It was a similar compaq affair with very slow dstn display. It came with Age of Empires 1 preinstalled, it was a nice game. My first laptop I bought was from 2004 or 5 and still works, it even runs Windows 7! I played a lot of Diablo 2 on it. It's very slow though with 2GB of memory. After that I got laptops from work and never had to buy one again (I was a network administrator so old hardware came by often). I should still have a dual core from 2011 somewhere. Good stuff!
Optical wasn't actually lasers. The red light was just that- a light. The light was so the optical sensor (basically low res camera) could track the mousing surface. Laser mice didn't come out until many years later.
beautiful. My first gaming experience was in 1997-99 where I was fortuante enough to have a laptop (with a literal ball as the touchpad) Played Doom and GTA - as well as jazz jackrabbit. I was probably 8 or something. Literally, Internet developing etc. been my whole life.
I still remember when my dad burns a cd we had to move around carefully in the room bc the burning process was so fragile that it failed when the floor was shaking just a little bit xd
No LAN or WIFI, that's what those PCMCIA slot's are great for! My Thinkpad 755cx (Pentium 75MHz, 40mb RAM, Win95b) was sporting Netgear's MA401 11Mbit WiFi card!
DUDE I had (/have, in non-working pieces now) a 755cx that had a 75Mhz 486 DX4, 40 MB of RAM, a 4xx MB HDD, that I put Win95 OSR2.5 (!) on with a parallel port Zip drive. I bought 16-bit (no cardbus!) PCMCIA 10mbit 3Com ethernet and 802.11b adapters for it and rocked the early SimCity, SimFarm, SimEarth, and SimAnt titles all the time. The 640x480x256 color STN and not TFT display was the rig's achillies heel because its fucking TERRIBLE refresh rate completely ruled out playing ANYTHING that required moving objects to be tracked on the screen. Later in its life I ran a 6 player Quake 1 server on x11-less Slackware linux. Sadly, the HDD controller took a dump and reduced it to brick status about 10 years ago.
Used an Orinoco on a PowerBook 1400c. Surprisingly simple. Completely flawless. Best laptop keyboard you'll ever find. Looking for older ThinkPads but not really cheap anymore...
@@lucasrem A long, long time ago when you only have 4.3GB of space, you need discs to run some of the resources because having everything on your PC was too much. :D
My mother in law's other half still uses a laptop like that for work. When I showed him how much better a new laptop his mind was blown! He thought it was normal for a computer to take 5 minutes to do anything
That video made me cry from joy. When I switched from my Amiga 500 to a Windows 95 machine it was pure bliss :) and now, I am working in IT Support for over 15 years. Thank you Linus and your team for making me feel old. Happy , but old ;) Greetings from Germany 👍
Kinda wish I had an Amiga 500 now, they're getting really expensive. I can find/build a windows 95 PC for like 30€, but any Amiga computer doesn't go for under 150€
@@osga21 I loved my Amiga 500. Most of my friends my age (42) are nostalgic over C64 that I had, too, but I got into graphics and music with Amiga and I feel that was more my jam.
Lmfao what the hell is wrong with you, this video made you cry from joy? I suppose looking in the mirror made you cry from how much of a disappointment you must be to everybody around you, you absolute spastic moron.
@@leonflorence118 In the olden days time was tracked by the years of a king's rule, for example - Such and such happened in the third year of the king so and so. After Jesus Christ who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords we now refer to any time after his birth AD ( anno Domini which is Latin for - In the Year of our Lord ) and any time before his birth as Before Christ. Hope this helps.
i actually really like how that big chonky laptop looks, it reminds me of something i'd see in an older anime since this is the kind of stuff they'd have at the time
Haha I also remember that most 90’s PC-CD ROM games used music as direct audio tracks from the cd-ROM even when you “fully” installed the game. However, the cool thing from this was that you could play the music on CD players because it was recognized as an audio CD!
I used to put my AoE II CD in the music player xD. They were record as mixed data/audio, since MP3 was too resource heavy in that time (specially good quality for in-game music, it was used only for game sounds but very compressed)
I had this laptop as a kid. A really cool feature is that the floppy disk drive could be swapped out for an extra battery. And it ran roller coaster tycoon pretty well!
My wife's car doesn't have bluetooth or USB, so sometimes I burn some MP3 CDs for her. Yes I could change her stereo, but the steering wheel butons and all that stuff will not work anymore.
CDs are still a viable and very cheap option for giving copies of files/software to lots of people, especially in places where internet connections are unreliable
@7:25 Back in the late 90s, my dad and I had to resort to this IR data transfer method in a pinch, to get an ethernet driver onto grandma's antiquated desktop, which sported a ZIPdisk drive, not a floppy drive. But wait there's more: since the IR ports on the back of a laptop, and top-front of a PC tower do not line up, we used the reflective surface of the underside of a CD-R to bounce the signal between the two IR ports. I'm still amazed that worked.
16:55 Takes me back -As a silly kid I placed my Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II CDROM into my CD/Casette music box. Much to my surprise and delight, it began playing the soundtrack to the game! I found out I could listen to some of the Star Wars soundtrack without purchasing the music in particular. :)
Yay my gaming laptop is finally getting reviewed
lmao
😂😂
Wow I'm jealous, i mean 100 megahertz? I can't get 12 megahertz
Same bro🤤
hahha😂
"i used to look at pictures"
What kind of pictures linus
what kind
Pixelated ones, probably.
kinda obvious really
peice of shit drawings same question
@@satorugojo5953 👉👌
s k i n t o n e
Teacher: "do you have a laptop ?"
Me: "yes"
Teacher: "ok, download zoom for online classes"
Me:
10:51
Zoom Not Compatible In Your Laptop
So true
@@g4mls facts
@Eystreem wdym
You know Brian is a true friend because he remembers the time you told him about your favorite game and loads it up for you.
Specially when said talk apparently never happened hahaha
@@kantdiego Says who?
@@sn0wt1gerBecause Linus mentioned he didn't remember talking about his favorite game
The nostalgia from that windows 95 start up sound was so real I got a positive mood boost just from hearing it.
And then the 1602 screen doubled that up again. I loved that game, but I could never figure out how to load soldiers into ships. I suddenly want to play it again.
@@kennethpowers241 you can play the game on your laptop now by setting up a virtual machine. The whole setup will cost you nothing but some time x)
Same! I scrolled back to play it again :)
Because Brian Eno is genius. His collaborations with Windows to make the OS music is really cool to learn about. He made a bunch of 5 second songs.
same and it got better looking at his own satisfaction
Good times. I remember upgrading my PC to a 4GB drive. Was epic.
EposVox I remember upgrading my ibm ps/2 66mhz 486 to a 1.07gb hard drive, it was huge.
hi.
I remember upgrading my video card ram from 1MB to 2MB, I needed it to run 1024 x 768 at 16m color from 800 x 600.
The shop owner just searched the 1MB vram from his drawer, then insert it to my video card, then voila glorious 1024 x 768 @16million colors!
Wow.. You're old.
When we upgraded our first Windows 95 PC to a 4GB hard drive, we partitioned it into 4x1GBish partitions; I think they were formated FAT16 for some reason.
Good times.
Linus reviewing Razer blade: Yeah this laptop is pretty cool
Linus reviewing 25 year old laptop: HOLY CRAP THS IS AMAZING!!
LMAO
No Shit didnt know
"Old is gold"
Live the life of a retrocollector and you will understand (says the barely nineteen year old woman😂😂😂)
Walid Fakhfakh you are one of the most toxic people I’ve ever seen and that’s saying something. Just shut up and get out.
Linus' reaction to the Windows 95 startup sound is one of the best reactions I've seen especially the nostalgic feeling he has about Windows 95.
Mom: "You have a laptop already, it still works."
*You know the rest*
"better than your pc"
Nah it's Mom: we got a gaming laptop at home
“Plays The newest games”
"comment here"
*And so do i*
4GB HDD wow, in 1994 I started with 40MB HDD (2nd-hand PC) :P
Brand new computers in 1994 had typically 600MB - 1.2GB HDDs, for what it's worth
@brosif29 In 1994??? Did you own a cluster of servers at that time? 😆
Ha, You atleast had one, but people like me still don't have one till now.
@brosif29 my school still uses those PC's...
Its not possible cose device memory would take more than 50mb if dosent mean how old
1999 i got sent to the principles office because i got my hands on my first CD-R 4x Creative drive and i was selling copies of Starcraft of $5
Lol
Haha me too
Lmfao contraband
Your school are Communist
1987 i got sent to the principles office because i hacked the main pc of the school and saw files i shouldnt have seen lmfao back in the day when security was nil.. and this was from a classroom on either a bbc or a mac
Now it's 29 years old
Now it's 30 years old
Damn still more ports than MacBook.
Hell there are desktops with fewer ports than that thing.
To be fair can we just admire the fact that older laptops have ports in the back and not on the side. Simple yet effective wire management
:D
Dezmo Bluefire newer laptops are going back to that now, dell, lenovo, hp, etc putting the power and main ports like hdmi on the back while ports like usb c and headphone jacks are on the side
Than most laptops*
My first desktop had a 2GB hard drive, and I literally thought to myself: 2GB?! How am I ever going to use all that? Oh, to be young an naive again.
And now our internet speed is 2-3x quicker
Well the 1st computer I used that is windows xp + 512 mb ram + 99 gb hard drive and the 1st game that played is its either Need for speed ( 1st or old version) and Progect I.G.I 1
That time in India we have only 2G internet facility. So I had to use Internet through Nokia Phones ( not smart phones) through nokia pc suit
@@seucheanemone5652 actually now the whole India is full of youth. Majority of people's ages is between 18-40. Thats why the internet and mobile phones is booming in India. World's all major companies Including Google , Apple , amazon all investing money in India specially for mobile phones. We use 4g now. Hope we get 5g in next year. But in the rural or village or old aged people or poor people still use 2g or 3g. India has 1.5 billion people. So majority of people use 4G. But we can't completely stop 2g or 3g. Even our internet plan comes with Daily 1.5 GB daily 4g + unlimited 2G ( after the 100%
Use of 4g data + 100 sms daily + unlimited call daily to anyone ( with in in india Landline or mobile) + access to all premium apps for free . But the best thing is in the 2G or 3G era we paid for call , sms , internet , apps . And the prise was too high. I can remind 1gb 3g pack cost 300 rupees = 3.38 Euro for 28 days validity. But now we give money for internet only. Other services are free. And the lowest internet pack that is 1.5gb daily costs 5 rupees for a day which is equal to 0.056 EURO. Hope Germany will get 4G and 5G soon. Tell me the price of telecom services in Germany or how telecom operators looting you ? By the way Germany is my favourite nation in Rise of Nation Game ( its a pc offline game like age of empires , clash of clans)
Happy Independence day
God, I love how...genuinely excited he gets while going over the laptop. You don't really see that much on youtube these days, it's actually a little refreshing
Dude....i love seeing retro technology on youtube (really makes me appreciate and praise how we advanced to today)
Another kid younger than Minecraft players adding 'genuine to their comment to feel better and get likes from other low iq viewers.
@@eavyeavy2864 gonna cry?
@@listentocky1 advanced? man my tech sucks
gotomoka.blogspot.com/2022/09/acer-aspire-5-a515-56-32dk-slim-laptop.html
Suddenly it's 1998 and I'm back in my freshman year at college with my brand new Toshiba laptop (a high school graduation gift) playing Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D in my dorm room. Just a few years later I'd be swapping horrible-sounding, low res MP3's via my Zip drive to be played in Winamp (It really whips the llama's ass!) on a pair of crappy Altec Lansing computer speakers. Ah, simpler times.
This!!!
In 1998 I was 11, our home computer was an IBM Aptiva 95 (I loved that PC) it came with a software bundle including games Caesar II and Pitfall The Mayan Adventure among other programs like Encyclopedia Encarta 96.
Other games I had were the original Command & Conquer, Wolfenstein 3D, Worms, Virtua Fighters and others I don't recall.
By 2001 I got a new PC, a clone tower computer with Windows XP, an upgrade for my gaming and multimedia experience and of course, I downloaded loads of MP3's, my music folder was Nü Metal galore and a lot of Industrial Rock and Grunge, Korn, Limb Bizkit, NiN, Marilyn Manson, The Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Rammstein, you name it.
Good times.
Do you remember using the Internet?
Yeah, the insanely popular "Unknown Album" made by "Unknown Artist"
Watching this guy get more excited about 25-year-old technology than people got when it was new.
Old technology was made by dreamers. Now everyone plays it safe. There's no charm anymore. I still remember how having a Nokia 9000 Communicator felt like something out of The Matrix. Good times lol. Now it's the same smartphone with improved specs over and over. I'm excited for the Steam Deck tho.
@@TheDorianTube true. Or maybe technology advancement has been in a stall lately, not exactly in a stall because they are still getting better very quickly, more like we get more than enough of what we can use. Back in the day there was so much room for improvement that every few years we got stuff we never dream of. But right now every device cater everything we need and even more we don't feel like anything changes anymore.
He should turn it into a sleeper pc
@@TheDorianTube Things like foldable smartphones these days, which I never thought would exist in a million years but they do. Infact the smartphone itself is something made from dreams.
@@TheDorianTube The problem is that in the 80s and 90s the satanist cabal (Soros, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Astor) were too busy installing dictators in central american, african and south asian countries and didn't care too much about the fledling micro-computer market. But by the mid 2000s and early 2010s they started to factor the tech industry into their "one true way" for EVERYTHING that goes on in society and decided on the exact types and formfactors of technologies that would be allowed, hence why NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO MAKE ANY COMPUTER SYSTEM IN ANY FORM, TYPE OR COLOR NOR ANY OS WITH ANY INTERFACE APPEARANCE OR DEGREE OF APPEARANCE CUSTOMIZABILITY OUTSIDE OF THEIR IMPOSED CANON.
"one thing I did as a teenager was look at pictures"
-Linus
His parents: "We heard everything"
@Watch Viking lmao
He’s actually called Linus not Linux. I think because he isn’t an operating system.
Yeah the moment he said that I knew he meant nudies. Hell as a kid I was printing a picture to have offline and the God damn printer froze up and wouldn't work... It worked for my mom a couple weeks later though.... Very awkward times. That's the struggles of only having one device that connects to the internet though... In the damn living room at that... Cellphones were a godsend to all kids. Lucky bastard.
@@TheFrogInYourClosetWatchingYou Lol. I can't imagine that struggle when you just want to have a "fun time".
I could not hold onto myself as He said that He knows that skin would Look better like this 😂😂😂😂
4 Gigabyte was a big hard drive for the time. My first computer had a 20 Megabyte drive!
And still I have been told those were very expansive.
my first computer had dual 5.25" drives with no hard drive haha... it played Risk tho!
my first computer had an 80GB drive, because it was a hand me down pentium 3 machine that my dad built
My first computer had a tape deck
Sean C. Definitely this was upgraded, my first computers had cartridges and tapes but my first HD was also 20 megs but only 10 where recognized and it was far enough, with DOS you had enough on a floppy to put the OS and 5 games, a 5 1/4 floppy
Love your enthusiasm Linus! Thanks for bringing to life some of the genuine excitement of that era in tech. I can still remember how excited I was to get a second-hand CD burner (with a missing faceplate) from my art teacher so I could burn my very first CD of Beatles music that I had dubbed into Sound Recorder from a boombox playing a cassette tape, which in turn was recorded by my dad off the radio from a show celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' arrival in America. Then actually playing that CD in the boombox, thinking I had just pwned the system. Those were the days!
"One thing I liked to do when I was a teenager was look at pictures"
*goes on to talk about how badly the display handles skin tone*
I understand linus, I understand.
Bahahahahahah. *snap*
Yellow fever
😂
What kind of pictures?
What can I say, Linus has good taste in women
change da world
my final message
goodb ye
2:23
no wonder it sounded familiar
Well noticed friend
I never noticed it made that noice before
Enough with this shit stain spam
it sounds like a GB ngl
Windows 95C had USB. We used to call it "Plug and pray"
"Plug & Pray" was also called for the automatic configuration of addon cards, not just USB. Back in the days when free IRQs, DMAs et cetera could be counted with your fingers.
@@sleeptyper true, lol. IRQ config was kinda fun though, at least there you knew it will work afterwards xD
You guys are making me feel nostalgic. Now I miss my Gateway and Compaq computers from back then.
My first PC was IBM Aptiva "pizzabox", 486SX/33 with whopping 4MB of RAM and 270MB HDD. Mom bought me 8MB RAM comb for good school success. I bought 512kB videoram chip, doubling it's videoram, lol. Having Gpu in Vesa-bus, it played some games faster than friend's 486DX2/66, which used ISA for Gpu.
Plug and Play? Or are you doing a funny joke?
You actually *can* upgrade that old thing to have WiFi on it. There were PCMCIA WiFi cards available in the early 2000s, which were compatible with any laptop that had PCMCIA slots. I had one.
I remember being so angry I couldn't use both my USB and WiFi cards simultaneously on my Dell laptop at the time...
Yes i had one acer laptop with that slot you could all kinds of attachment on it. Early 2000s
I have one for my Dell Latitude C640
I actually had an 8bit PCMCIA to 8bit card controller in my DESKTOP PC so I could share my single wifi card between both.
There’s just something beautiful about the datedness of these windows computer systems. Probably it’s how immersive they felt especially when I was younger, despite their comparatively low grade performance and hardware and software. My family would use these till their end of life, which is how you continue to appreciate them for what they’re worth
When you sat down at a computer it felt more productive, it was less distracting and fewer activities to passively waste your time.
@@SerterSerter Instead you had to waste time to install everything on it because a mouse needed drivers and two resets for them to work. But there was a lot to customize, nowadays Windows doesn't even remember folder layout and doesn't have any themes. It took time to make evything work properly and in the end was more apreciated and cared for.
@@draconpost i mean everything still needs drivers, they're just either automatically downloaded or the device will just default to general HID drivers
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2:23 change da world my final message. Goodb ye
Change da world 🌍
Change the world.
Figured I’d see a few of these 💀
Gen z is a mindfuckfest
@@cupuacu4life13 ?
_this may cause your computer to run more slowly_
Linus: *"Isn't that great!"* Ah the good ole days :')
Sounds like something my granddad would say. He boomer
I have a laptop like this from 2007 that I haven't touched in over a decade, so recently I got curious if it still worked and Yes it did for a bit, I kept using it to test it occasionally and It was able to run TH-cam at 720P and worked with my modern internet....until it didn't. One day it just wouldn't connect and it's been that way ever since. (BTW i still own it tho) RIP old computer 2007- 2022
I’ll take it if you don’t want it
@@tjreckers_shorts I keep it for the nostalgia
HOW DOES IT RUN GAMEZ?!?!!
My 2016 Dell laptop did that recently, grabbed a slimline USB Wi-Fi adapter off Amazon and I was back online
Its probably just faulty Nic card, you could try a wired connection to test it. I have an old Acer 6935g from 2008 and it still works amazingly. It plays 720p videos and can even emulate 3ds and Wii games. It was originally a budget gaming laptop though and could run Modern warfare 2 so that maybe why it still holds up well.
1995: HOLY CRAP THIS CD BURNING TECH IS AMAZING
2019: This CD burning takes too long.
2040: What's a CD
Tbh people are already forgetting about cd's lol
meanwhile people on the PS7 and XxX_Xbox_XxX_OneBoxX are still using Optical Discs.
@@proxy1035 those are Blu-ray DVD's tho
@@martiddy let me re-phrase that
@@16krez1 no
Teachers dont forget about cds. They make us burn the video on a cd
"One thing I've used my old Windows 95 laptop for is looking at pictures"
We all did... the kind of pictures you didn't want your parents to find on your computer.
so true
I still do that today
I like the vr kind
@@goldyloccz382 Man Of Culture
all the viruses i got but it was worth it
Meanwhile Linus the next 25 years:
"Look at this so called Modern Computers, it has disgusting 512GB of SDD, and a 8GB of DDR4!"
*ssd
can't wait for those 1TB ram sticks bro
ssd*
@@PrismGenesis So this system is gonna be the bog standard $800 budget. It's running 2TB of DDR7 in quad-channel (4x 512GB), so you're not gonna be doing serious video editing for even your regular 32k movies. It's got a 64-core, 9.6 GHz CPU from industry newcomer Aspira from their Aether range of mid-level, bang-for-your-buck CPUs...
I could go on making random stuff up, but yeah...fun to do for a bit.
@@HaydenX ...the Vision Feeling and Smell Processing Unit (VFSPU) is of course made by industry leader Nvidia and is the cheapest unit that still features the brand new Raytracing 5.0 technology, along with 500 additional smells, and 700,000 more nerve ending simulators, for a much more immersive gaming experience. The Direct to Brain (DTB) helmet is from the new upstarts at Accurate Interfaces, and features 900,000 points of contact and space foam padding to ensure comfort and to create less sensory intrusion for even the most vigorous of games.
That windows start up jingle is like a double shot of nostalgia right in the arm.
That Windows 95 loading chime brought on some major nostalgia.
I had visions of floppies with super fast access writes and 1.68 MB of space instead of 1.44...
I feel like playing Command & Conquer all of a sudden
They should bring back that old chime to Windows 10 as an option! Or even better: I can just make Cinnamon (Linux Mint) play it when I log in!
YES
@@wandererstraining I'm pretty sure you can
Used to look at pictures...................................Umm......
Interesting how concerned he was about skin tones...
Every male made first use of their internet connection to view the latest porn pics floating around. Those who say they never are lying.
Loaded a half inch at a time from top to bottom.
*5 minutes later*
Ooh! It's getting too the boobs!!
What kind of pictures hmmmmm haha
@@AG.Floats lol.. images so dithered trying to figure out what you were looking at was like looking at a magic eye poster until all of a sudden.. "WHOA! Vagina!"
also.. Persian Kitty, anyone?
"here's something we haven't seen ina while, a removable battery"
*laughs in thinkpad*
x220 here!
The Thinkpads have had non-removable batteries for a couple generations now sadly. Everything past the T440 has a soldered in CPU and they're even soldering RAM on some models now, including the T-Series.
I've got a T440p myself and love it, but it's not able to run a lot of newer games which sucks. I'm considering just building a desktop rather than shelling out for one of the newer Thinkpads.
Hp pavillion too
Laughs in asus
Thinkpad T430s here
1:25 is the real old laptop experience for me. These old LCDs had very small viewing angles that two people sitting next to each other couldn't see the whole screen.
Who else remember playing Space pinball and Spider Solitaire??
Carmageddon
I still play pinball on my windows xp pc
Yes
YES!!!!
I have the pinball game on my game drive.
14:55 *looking at pictures, eh? ;)*
-not exposed-
14.4k 144p pr0n.
The real problem was that the keyboard got sticky.
@@LTXwooshie lmaooooo
16:23 Apparently skin tones were much better on 16 bit ;)
@6:51 Linus, the biggest advantage is that it still works 25 years on.
Lets see if today's laptop's will last 25 years.
@WorthlessVids not enough profit in a laptop that lasts longer than a few years.
WorthlessVids I mean MacBooks probably last the longest. I'm not too sure about the 2016 ones.
@@semahj "Macbooks last the longest" *snorts*
@@semahj The older ones with removable HDDs sure, but the current models? Good luck with that.
Capitalism will kill us. Stop climate change!
Windows 95 OSR2 (4.00.950 B), had USB via support via a small update. But OSR2 itself was never made available to end-users directly and was only sold through OEMs with the purchase of a new PC. I remember that getting a hold of the OEM disk to reformat to a "newer" Win95 was a thing.
I love seeing how excited Linus gets in these nostalgia episodes. It's like his inner child is attempting to escape
do we all get excited? it is always pretty fun to visit childhood memories when life was easier and there was no stress, every day fun and joy. Try it yourself it's pretty fun and relaxing to visit those memories, you can use smell, sound and skill memories to bring back some of what you have allready forgotten. Those memories doesn't delete, they are always there even tho there are not in your longterm memory anymore, it cleans itself while you sleep so it doesn't get slow over time.
12:18
linus back in 2000: i am burning a cd i am super suprised
Linus 2019: i am burning a cd i am super suprised
@@anitheremil8822 thnx i guess
@@anitheremil8822 my native language is dutch, as long as i speak it correctly i am happy
@@architect_kev266 mijn ook
Hoi! wat voor feestje is hier gaande?
“I used it too look at pictures”
Awkward silence
Moves onto a picture and talks about skin tone
We've all been there lol
Glad I wasn't the only guy to notice that.
My wife often found the pictures I'd saved to diskettes
It was hard not to look at pictures while browsing the internet, popups were common and there was no pop up control till some time later, I remember talking to a fellow technician over the phone and discussing it, I said this one nude keeps popping up, he described the woman correctly, so every Christian browsing online would have seen the same thing, my wife hated me being online as she was in a cult, IT was my employment, so I had no choice.
@@johnussss your wife was in a cult?
I had a Gateway laptop like that. I thought it was awesome! It was the first and last laptop I've ever had. I only use desktops and tablets now. My wife still uses laptops. I loved Windows 95 and 98. Was great for running DOS games. Was a major upgrade from my 486 desktop PC. It was a fun to remove the ball from the mouse as a prank on friends. I hate how thin new laptops are. These thick laptops stayed cool, had great keyboards, lots of ports, drives, etc as you see. New laptops have so little to them hardware wise. Yep. Took a while to burn cds then. If you ripped and burned a music cd to a blank cd, it took as long to burn as it took to listen to the music cd. I played a lot of Seven Kingdoms on my laptop.
Yeah, I prefer laptops to be thick enough to be used as tank armor, and heavy enough to give someone a concussion. I want it to be able to survive a mace.
Thin laptops are pretty cool
You still have thicker ones now, it is still a trade off between thinnest and most performing; with the most expensive having thicker keyboards, without that mcuh ghosting . Travel time is a present e issue
Ultra books have quite a lot going on
Expansion wise, you generally connecting something up, or add on the inside. like an external drive or an external GPU, either directly or with a dock
I used to play golf on dos. I think it was Sawgrass. I remember loading around 10 floppy discs. lol
Thumbnail: windows 98
Computer: windows 95
Nice one chaps
25 years ago was before windows 95 was even out
@@simonwilson7581 Thanks for that in depth play by play.
@@simonwilson7581 And yet here you are watching and commenting...
@@simonwilson7581 I suppose your content is better. I'll take a look.
There are so many mistakes and untruths in this video that I had to dislike.
We lived like savages.
cleaning mouse balls was madding
@@blackknightdavesgarage6918 Remember the little velcro-ball cleaners?
nostalgia ... and general feeling old sentiments all around
The lack of multi tasking actually made me switch back to console gaming for years. Programs running in the background causing stutters. After a while I preferred using my PS2 to my gaming pc. Both were on CRT's so no input lag and games physics were linked to the fps so many ran at 25, 30, 50 or 60 fps anyway regardless of platform. PC games did have a higher resolution but that doesn't matter that much in how much fun you have.
I bet to differ, we wern't staring at phones all day and we knew there was just 2 genders and hated socialism
Ok, but where is the 1602 AD Let's Play by linus? This is a dead serious comment. I'd love to see him play without a bunch of edits (e.g. 10 minute video) :)
I agree! He says he used to be good in certain games...WE WANT GAMING LINUS! (With james or luke judging him as he plays)
I would really like to watch it
10/10 Would watch this and more linus 95 Let's plays!
i still like 1404 more, but i would be down for that.
a linus 1602 A.D. Let's Play would be glorious.
Aye, a livestream would be kinda fun.
This was wonderful for me to see right now. Coming up on the first anniversary of my mom's death in a couple weeks, and I can still remember when she took me to get my first laptop in 1998 from Circuit City iirc. A Compaq Presario that looked just like this. Thanks for reminding me, that was a wonderful time spent with my mom.
Wow I forgot all about circuit city
Don't move the laptop around in the air whilst it's running!! That drive IS NOT SECURED WITH A SENSOR TO PARK IT AUTOMATICALLY WHEN IN MOTION. 6:30 ouch ouch ouch. :-(
@The Media Norman a resting area where it is hold in place and can't cause damage. so in that case it will be move when applied with outer force and that mean it can damage things if it wiggles around.
The reading heads on the hard disk can hit the platters. Modern hard drive “park” the heads moving them away from the disks when there is motion to stop them hitting on the metallic disks to prevent causing data loss and drive damage.
i felt the same >-< i was waiting it crash XD
@The Media Norman Just data? dude, you can kill the entire HDD... Or make it unusable.
There are old desktops where you had to go into a program in dos and order the heads to park before moving it. Hell even old floppies you had to stick a protection piece of cardboard in it
On the next episode of LTT, installing windows 98 on $3000 PC
dont give them any ideas lmao
@@TheXeno333 Pls do it :P
this is not lgr
you meant Windows 95 or Windows 3.1
You probably can do that if you use those VESA drivers.
But you can forget about sound or 3D acceleration.
"I preinstalled your favorite game in there"
Linus: *ignores it and plays Liero*
To be fair he did play it at the end, probably just wanted to finish testing everything he could before playing it.
I mean, I'd also go straight for the spiritual predecessor to Noita.
This looks lik "Worm"
I was hoping it would be Hello Kitty or a Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen game
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It was so much fun watching Windows 95 in action.
Windows 10 should be given it’s very own unique opening sound
It has the Windows 7 startup sound but it's disable by défaut.
It is called "update alert"
I set that sweet Win95 sound for Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 7, 8, 8.1 and now 10 :-/
"we love your info"
Imagine if apple made a reboot sound and it can be customized imagine if apple beat android to something like that
“Our PCs looked so much more different from you kids now.”
Me looking at my 2001 laptop.
I love your pfp, it looks like me when I stub my toe and am 2 seconds away from screaming.
relatable
I bet in 2001 at the least 30% of the viewers not were even born(including me)
I use Windows 7 still
@TheReal_Yash I have a few computers that run 7
*has headphone jack*
me: "thats better than modern iphones"
yea my phone doesnt have one
but who cares about that when there is bluetooth.... honestly wireless headphones/earphones are soo much better
ps: fk wires
@@ewanjb99 wait im confused do you hate wires or not
@@xXRagingShadowXx12345 i dont hate them as they're useful in certain situations which require speed and accuracy/constancy. However, when it comes headphones and earphones wireless is so much better. making the audio jack obsolete...
@@ewanjb99 ah yes let me spend hundreds on something i can easily lose then spend hundreds more to get a second one and hundreds more again to replace it when i lose it, fine tactics good sir. i can agree about wireless headphones tho because they are much harder to lose and dont need a wire.
16:48
I remember listening to WarCraft 2, Total Annihilation and Dark Reign soundtracks on my Teac Diskman (While walking slowly to stop skips) :D
This video is great, wish you guys did more of them or a series of 'older tech' because a lot of stuff you forget or take-for-granted these days.
2:22 Now that is a nostalgic sound that takes me back. I haven't heard that tune in decades. It really did put a smile on my face.
change da world
my final message
good bye
You mean 2:23
So another thing I used to do when I was a teenager was looking at pictures😏
And skin tones were important for some reason 🤔
*"Uhhhhhh"*
Frantisek Janak hm
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Loading a porno with 144p and terrible sound quality.
At 2:08
Linus: Windows 95... Then that makes this thing significantly older than Jake.
Me: And it's probably more useful at times, too.
This again?
Jake bad anthony good
Probably? Most definitely.
There is something I hate about Jake I can't put my finger on.
James sucks.
laughs in windows 3.0
When Linus mentioned data transfer via Infrared I remembered me and some friends sharing slipknot, mudvayne, Nightwish and some other bands songs with each other in the early 2000s that way. It sometimes took up to half an hour for one song. This was between phones.... I think mine was one of those orange and white Sony Walkman. Ah, the nostalgia!!!
school district: "I'LL TAKE IT!!!!"
Scott Riehm lol
Everyone: oh i've seen this one. its a classic
Schools: What do you mean, its brand new
Evurgreen With your profile picture, I’ma guess that kid was you. 👌
Split-screen multiplayer game 😭
The nostalgia is real
I live in a third world country, so i played with an original xbox like monthly in 2013 with my cousin. I have played original ps and ps2 games and i just wanna say for FUCKS SAKE BRING SPLIT SCREEN MULTIPLAYER BACK I WANNA PLAY HALO STORY MODE WITH MY LITTLE COUSIN JUST LIKE MY OLDER COUSIN DID WITH ME!!!
@@qugaming6535 Halo Infinite has confirmed split screen
@@seanathonhooper Time to kick some alien ass with my cousins in the new years eve party
The nostalgia is strong on this one xD
I remember my first PC-upgrade. From 640 KB or so RAM to 4 MB and a whooping 80 MB HDD :D
Are you really that old?!
@@bluecyrusgaming4397 idk if you live on earth, but this technology was from the 70's, not from jesus time
@@RandomPerson8 this just explains the 2010 generation
@@Luka2000_ im 12 but i wish i weren’t in a generation of people like this
@@zanotellitb5457 yeah, ppl who were 5+yo in 1970s are old.
I was given a CompaQ Armada a while back and it was fascinating. It actually helped me out as it bridged the gap between floppy and USB, which unlocked downloading DOS games for my 3.1 PC.
Unfortunately I don't have the time or space to play with any of it these days but it's all still there.
Well, even if you don't have the time or space, there's DOS Box, and Virtual PC (Virtual Box), that can be downloaded and run from your current OS. You can load older OSes on that, or just use DOS Box, and use one machine for all that vintage gaming you might want to do. Hope this helped, even a little. :)
Back when laptops had vertically mounted fans
IIRC it wasn’t until the early to mid 2000s when they started horizontally mounting fans because the vertical fans couldn’t keep the newer processors cool enough.
I never knew that was a thing
@@darknes4150 I'm sure the comment was tongue-in-cheek. Vertically mounted laptop fans - because it was so thick! LoLLLL!
They aren't "Vertically mounted fans" or horizontal fans... Newer laptops than that used squirrel cage fans, which fits into a smaller profile BUT also make more noise per CFM but they also had stronger static pressure.
Before that normal fans would be used because it was thick enough to do that
@@DLTX1007 Squirrel Cage?
Lol, never heard of that...
Centrifugal Fans though, that's the proper name you're looking for.
For the full nostalgia blast, Linus should have loaded up the original Diablo from 1996 that was just released today on GOG.
First game I ever played on my parents PC. Right up until I realized it wasn't powerful enough to run it 😂. And so my days of PC building began.
they should port it to phone instead XD
How bout a sleeper laptop? Modern parts in an old laptop would be cool to see.
Would be nice but wouldn't happen
You could fit an entire itx System in this
@@chrishansen7004 why not?
Would take a lot of work, those old laptops weren't designed to be friendly to work in. Doable though.
J M Probably can easily fit a 2080Ti and cool it properly even when over clocked. Then you can fit paralleled batteries for all day gaming on the go.
The pixel art of that game was on point damn.
“And it’s called liero”
Please excuse me for a second, the nostalgia hit me so hard I fell out of my chair.
I'm 13 and I've played that ngl its kinda a banger of a game
Same here. My cousin and I used to share a keyboard to play each other. Loved it.
linus be like: "burning cds is soooo old and makes me nostalgic"
me, who still burns them to listen to good music in our family's car
Time for a Bluetooth FM transmitter.
@@joeythefoxxo fm transmitters are spotty at best in my experience. But cars used to have modular stereos, and there's lots of great options now to replace the control module with new ones that have apple carplay and android auto.
Seriously most millennials and zoomers would save so much money buying a used car and changing out the radio unit for a few hundred bucks.
@@derpcon4212 I agree with you. Trust me I have a decked out system in my 2000 Chevy Impala. Full stereo overhaul, subwoofer, and an Apple CarPlay head unit. But with that comes a pretty hefty price tag upfront. My head unit alone was $350. Compare that to a decent fm transmitter for $20-$50. While I much prefer a wired connection, to some people there just isn’t the need for such an upgrade.
@@joeythefoxxo "head unit" shit that's the name lmao. It's still the morning and my brain hasn't woken up completely 🤣
And I agree with you about the cost. Tbh tho on my old car I just burned a buncha CDs like the OP talked about. Gave me less fuss than FM transmitters and the inconvenience wasn't as bad as it sounds
@@derpcon4212 I can see it working well for some, but I listen to a LOT of music. I mean I go through playlists everyday. I used to use discs but I got tired of the same music playing over and over. I burned whole albums on these CD’s too lol. I’m so much happier being able to change the music to whatever I want whenever I want.
I feel bad with my technological privilege cause I can just hear my parents saying “back in my day you had to rewind the cassettes and you only had 10 songs each”.
The battery is at 14.4 V though, so it's a lot more energy than a 2700 mAh battery at 3.7 (or 4.4?) V for a phone. Ampere Hours suck at describing batteries because it's not a unit of energy. Wh (watt hour) is better for this and this battery would have 38.88 Wh of energy. Which is still not a lot for a laptop but it's more than the "2.7 AHr" might indicate at first.
For comparison, a 4000 mAh battery at 3.7 V has 14.8 Wh of energy.
Thank you, his reaction to the battery specs is a bit strange to me. Considering my 2013 Macbook Air's battery is rated for 55Wh/7200mAh, this thing's battery is pretty solid even by today's standards, barring the size.
@@xfactoid kinda describe the stagnant development of batteries today.
It's a lot actually compared to a macbook for example. It's actually pretty stupid of him to say that.
I did the math and this battery works out to 38.88 Wh. That’s not terrible!
Thank you for commenting this so I didn't have to
Honestly I'd take the internal power brick and all the other cool and great features this 25 year old laptop has to offer over an ultra-thin laptop. I think tech companies are less concerned with what the buyer will want/need and more concerned about what they want the buyer to want/need. I'd give anything to have an old thicc laptop like this one with modern graphics and internals.
"I haven't heard that sound in so long."
Welcome to memory lane. Please walk with me as we reminisce of technology of yester-year. When RAM capacities measured in MB and floppy disks were the norm.
Tristen Zavala I musta miscalculated because my RAM’s about 512kb. Still using floppies, though.
@@first-last557 What sort of flippin' system are you using brother?
@@retrobit5973 Upgraded Tandy 1000HX
@@first-last557 Never heard of that...
EDIT:- I found out and realised what you meant.
Rest assured nasa was the last to use 8inch floppies.
Totally forgot about the Windows 95 startup sound. Flashback to the whole class first turning the computers on in school.
fun fact about that startup sound: brian eno wrote it. theindustryobserver.thebrag.com/the-odd-story-of-how-brian-eno-composed-the-windows-95-startup-sound/
The sound was good for knowing when the computer had started up and it was time to return to the computer :)
3:50 "It gives you an appreciation for modern grid arrangements and everything snapping into place"
*cries in macOS*
I've never used macOS before, does it not snap the icons into a grid?
@@coolfred9083 We had a few Macs in our school. You could put icons on top of each other if you wanted. It is whack
@@timbrown3666 Seriously? One of my friends just got a macbook I'm going to have to have a look
I must have an old Win98 laptop somewhere that was given to me about 15 years ago. They thought it was still very usable then lol! I borrowed a laptop in '97 from my intern workplace for a day. It was a similar compaq affair with very slow dstn display. It came with Age of Empires 1 preinstalled, it was a nice game.
My first laptop I bought was from 2004 or 5 and still works, it even runs Windows 7! I played a lot of Diablo 2 on it. It's very slow though with 2GB of memory. After that I got laptops from work and never had to buy one again (I was a network administrator so old hardware came by often). I should still have a dual core from 2011 somewhere. Good stuff!
14:59 When you were a teenager you used your laptop to look at pictures. I bet you did. And then you bring up an example
I remember back then, one was "hot shit" when having upgraded to an optical mouse from a ball mouse. Lasers dude.
Or have one of those floppy drive modules that could house a CD-ROM drive if you swapped it out :P.
@@Dutch3DMaster As long as it's not one of those new-fangled 3.5" floppies - are they even floppy?
Hot shit LMFAO
curently there isnt a better kind of mouse than an optical?
Optical wasn't actually lasers. The red light was just that- a light. The light was so the optical sensor (basically low res camera) could track the mousing surface. Laser mice didn't come out until many years later.
Remember that kid who used to brag about the PC that his uncle gifted him? That's him now. Feel old yet?
beautiful. My first gaming experience was in 1997-99 where I was fortuante enough to have a laptop (with a literal ball as the touchpad)
Played Doom and GTA - as well as jazz jackrabbit. I was probably 8 or something. Literally, Internet developing etc. been my whole life.
I still remember when my dad burns a cd we had to move around carefully in the room bc the burning process was so fragile that it failed when the floor was shaking just a little bit xd
that anxiety.. waiting for the cd to be written completely & hoping the power won't blow & ruin the cd
Our first external CD-R drive wrote more coasters than good disks.
@@gregelgie 🤣
My dad once burned a halo disc. It was epic playing on PC with it. Then I remember we got an Xbox 360.
And was probably 2x w and 0.1 rw lol
No LAN or WIFI, that's what those PCMCIA slot's are great for!
My Thinkpad 755cx (Pentium 75MHz, 40mb RAM, Win95b) was sporting Netgear's MA401 11Mbit WiFi card!
Niiiiiice!😁👍
DUDE I had (/have, in non-working pieces now) a 755cx that had a 75Mhz 486 DX4, 40 MB of RAM, a 4xx MB HDD, that I put Win95 OSR2.5 (!) on with a parallel port Zip drive. I bought 16-bit (no cardbus!) PCMCIA 10mbit 3Com ethernet and 802.11b adapters for it and rocked the early SimCity, SimFarm, SimEarth, and SimAnt titles all the time. The 640x480x256 color STN and not TFT display was the rig's achillies heel because its fucking TERRIBLE refresh rate completely ruled out playing ANYTHING that required moving objects to be tracked on the screen. Later in its life I ran a 6 player Quake 1 server on x11-less Slackware linux. Sadly, the HDD controller took a dump and reduced it to brick status about 10 years ago.
Used an Orinoco on a PowerBook 1400c. Surprisingly simple. Completely flawless. Best laptop keyboard you'll ever find. Looking for older ThinkPads but not really cheap anymore...
@@thetinpin Damn, SimFarm, I've been looking for that or a port for AGES! That game was AWESOME! Can't find it ANYWHERE anymore...😥
:O
Nero Burning Rom... One of the best wordplay ever.
I played so many Playstation games for free thanks to good old Nero
@@moiseman Lol I always failed with that.. I had to use Alcohol and the PSX disc option :D
BudgetGamerPH
Why you need disks????
@@lucasrem A long, long time ago when you only have 4.3GB of space, you need discs to run some of the resources because having everything on your PC was too much. :D
@@marketingwithalvin1028 i stored them on Network folder, easy access on any PC, the old days....
Now i use my personal NAS.
My mother in law's other half still uses a laptop like that for work. When I showed him how much better a new laptop his mind was blown! He thought it was normal for a computer to take 5 minutes to do anything
Windows 95 bootup sound was my favorite tbh. It's beautiful.
windows 98 was better
Windows 2000 is by far the best boot sound so far
i agree 95 is. theres a reason so many 95 remixes out there exist!
@@CurtisLSA yup
Windows NT 4.0 and windows 2000 beta (NT 5.0) make you feel like you are being transported to another dimension. So good
That video made me cry from joy. When I switched from my Amiga 500 to a Windows 95 machine it was pure bliss :) and now, I am working in IT Support for over 15 years.
Thank you Linus and your team for making me feel old. Happy , but old ;)
Greetings from Germany 👍
Kinda wish I had an Amiga 500 now, they're getting really expensive. I can find/build a windows 95 PC for like 30€, but any Amiga computer doesn't go for under 150€
@@osga21 I loved my Amiga 500. Most of my friends my age (42) are nostalgic over C64 that I had, too, but I got into graphics and music with Amiga and I feel that was more my jam.
Nostalgia man
Lmfao what the hell is wrong with you, this video made you cry from joy? I suppose looking in the mirror made you cry from how much of a disappointment you must be to everybody around you, you absolute spastic moron.
wow i was shocked to see 1602 A.D. on it
@Universal cant tell if ur being sarcastic or if im just being clueless but isn't that a date like 2021?
@Universal yeah ik the AD part
@Universal What was before B.C.?
@@leonflorence118 In the olden days time was tracked by the years of a king's rule, for example - Such and such happened in the third year of the king so and so. After Jesus Christ who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords we now refer to any time after his birth AD ( anno Domini which is Latin for - In the Year of our Lord ) and any time before his birth as Before Christ. Hope this helps.
@@MrSmithOriginal thanks man! never knew this, very interesting.
i actually really like how that big chonky laptop looks, it reminds me of something i'd see in an older anime since this is the kind of stuff they'd have at the time
14:56 Linus: Something I used my laptop for when I was a teenager was... *looking at pictures..*
Me: Hmmmmm...
Uummmmm *looks around nervously*
Wait that’s illegal
It’s got more ports than my MacBook
Ouch man XD
It's got more ports than Skyrim
@@Eric4Lego oof
macbooks are shit sell it and get a life
the gaming nerd freak
You are an idiot
Haha I also remember that most 90’s PC-CD ROM games used music as direct audio tracks from the cd-ROM even when you “fully” installed the game. However, the cool thing from this was that you could play the music on CD players because it was recognized as an audio CD!
Sweet, free sound track!
I used to put my AoE II CD in the music player xD. They were record as mixed data/audio, since MP3 was too resource heavy in that time (specially good quality for in-game music, it was used only for game sounds but very compressed)
I used to listen to my "Shadows of the Empire" cd-rom for fun. Good music.
Remember to put my Midtown Madness 2 CD in the CD Player for the lols
@@ScientistDog yeah me too, loved doing that
4 gigs is amazing. My first computer at the age of 10 was a full size IBM with 129mb hard drive.
The tactical keyboard, much AIO, Internal battery adapter, yeah...
It's pretty compaq
You could replace the actual computing unit with a raspberry pi and you'd have much better hardware too.
The tactical keyboards are nice, but I prefer my strategic keyboard.
I remember when I upgraded to a 20GB hdd. they called me crazy.
I brought a 250g drive in 2005, and my friends thought people wouldn’t fill it up for their whole life
@@unclewho now you can buy it for 40$ on eBay
@@unclewho I still only have 128gb.
While we now we be getting 4TB hard drives XD
The guy at the store gave me an 'Are you crazy?' look when I chose an 80GB HDD (back in 2004) for my PC.
"This computer is older than the people working here." Damn, do I feel old.
And we are likely older than Linus himself :P
And here I am remembering when I bought one...
How orld arme
you
Same lol
Lol I am 19 now but, that's crazy how old technology used to look like. First time seeing this lol.
I had this laptop as a kid. A really cool feature is that the floppy disk drive could be swapped out for an extra battery. And it ran roller coaster tycoon pretty well!
I've burned more CDs in my life than I'd like to admit...
My wife's car doesn't have bluetooth or USB, so sometimes I burn some MP3 CDs for her. Yes I could change her stereo, but the steering wheel butons and all that stuff will not work anymore.
CDs are still a viable and very cheap option for giving copies of files/software to lots of people, especially in places where internet connections are unreliable
ive burned over 2TB ...in high school of just anime.. worse part was is many years later i still havent watched all those discs
This is the FBI, Mateusz. We forgive you.
@7:25 Back in the late 90s, my dad and I had to resort to this IR data transfer method in a pinch, to get an ethernet driver onto grandma's antiquated desktop, which sported a ZIPdisk drive, not a floppy drive.
But wait there's more: since the IR ports on the back of a laptop, and top-front of a PC tower do not line up, we used the reflective surface of the underside of a CD-R to bounce the signal between the two IR ports. I'm still amazed that worked.
And it still does
*_Still better than a macbook_*
Got 'em
facts
Better keyboard
Apple ftw stfu plox
way better
16:55 Takes me back -As a silly kid I placed my Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II CDROM into my CD/Casette music box. Much to my surprise and delight, it began playing the soundtrack to the game!
I found out I could listen to some of the Star Wars soundtrack without purchasing the music in particular. :)