*bae has a big question, bae uses the intel iris Xe dg {asus} card to install on the celeron PC on bae channel,bae download the graphic card driver on the shengqi page. When only that card is plugged in, the screen is black. But when plugged in with Arc a750 (only plug the riser into the pcie with the auxiliary power cord, not plugging in the display output) plug in the display output by display port of the iris vga, the pc can be used and it is still receiving iris. The graphic Xe can use so much %, i also tested the card loading 100%, and the arc does not plug in the display output so in gpu 2 it says 0%. That means my celeron PC is definitely using the iris card. But bae does not understand that since til now,i still cannot let the machine run on only the iris card every time i remove the arc, the screen is black even though it is clearly not plugging in any kind of display and using display by Asus iris dg. Bae asked a lot of people in Vietnam but it seems like only I have encountered this situation in my country. I hope someone has an answer to help me because since then I have tried many ways like changing the pcie slot or trying to insert a different card with iris but nothing is working. If you knows the sistuation or anyone who capable of dealing with this, please contact f.b bae bê*
Yeah, for real, grab the still working ones while you can, there are fewer and fewer every day. I got lucky to get my hands on a Tandy 1000 that still works.
I had the equivalent of scheduled tasks (which also didn't really exist) to do defragments in Win95 and Win98 every Sunday evening. I also regularly printed out my IRQs, but people also forget that a lot of us were just reinstalling the OS every 1 or 2 years anyway from like 1995-2004. Windows XP was released in 2001, but it wasn't till like SP2 that it was really stable and supported enough as an OS to serve as a gaming computer.
Fun Fact: Buddy of mine messed up his HDD once after constantly kicking his PC (mostly when he was killed in a game). He fucked up some sector on his harddrive so he was forced to reinstall windows every day for like 30 minutes just to be able to play Icewind Dale.
I'm 22. I have countless memories of my dad sitting in front of the computer (I think it was Win XP) watching the defragmentation progress line slowly crawl up. His gf would mock him about it all the time "your dad's busy running defragmentation", referring to how he just stared at the screen doing nothing for at least half an hour. Mind you this was mid 00s, not the 90s.
Kids will never know how futuristic it was to switch from Windows95 to Windows XP. And then trying to play games in Compability mode and your graphics is fecked up because it tries to simulate Win95...
@@ProOmgHeadshot Vista ran fine if you had the most expensive consumer grade hardware out there, what do you mean? I see nothing wrong there. You mean they installed it on budget laptops because of Microsoft? Unthinkable. Microsoft would *never* do such a thing.
“Soundblaster 16 IRQ Conflicts are a way of life” - I’m old enough for that to trigger some painful memories. 😬 “I re-install Windows every 3 months. I back up all my data on floppies…. I loose all my data every three months.” … god this all feels far too relatable as a Windows ‘95 user back in the day!
I remember buying an SB16 in 95. It cost me a monthly salary but then I replayed every game I had one after another, reinstalling them from floppies. The proper sound after hearing only a PC speaker in the life before. That growl of the Doom monsters.
@@AlexDemidov You two are making me go a memory lane deeper than the video itself... I recall when I finally was able to understand how to setup IRQs via jumpers on boards, then set it up on Doom... I felt so powerful...
oh man, i really did have a soundcard that used the same IRQ as a modem. I had to unplug the modem for sounds or the sound for the modem. It was a pain in the ass.
I've reinstalled Windows so many times (mostly 98 but some 95 as well) that I knew 4 different license keys by heart. My record is 7 times in a day on the same PC trying to make a game work. Back in the day, that was our go-to routine. Reinstall Windows, install drivers again, etc. I had a CD titled "When the sh!t goes down" which contained installers for everything I needed plus some backups. I miss those days, it was a lot of fun :D
“Indie games” is terminology that started mid 2000’s from TIGsource and after the release of early games like Aquaria and Darwinia and such had been released. Around the time Digg died, iirc. The terms you want are Shareware and Freeware. How a lot of people played stuff like Terminal Velocity, Escape Velocity, sierra games, etc.
@@spesialek I definitely don't remember this - I do remember Naughty Dog being used as an example of what Third Party developers are though, back when gaming magazines actually had articles n shit. Computer Gaming World, Game Informer, NEXT generation, PC Games, PC Gamer.
@@marsdriver2501 well, any games that are distributed by a publisher is not an indie game. That means practically any game that comes from a disc. As for games that now are considered indie games, probably includes most stuff you find online, like flash games?
@@robertjenkins6132 True, they build monopolies (almost all search engines rely on data from Google crawlers) by eliminating all competition, and when done, they just crap on users...
'This program has performed illegal operation and it will shut down....' 2nd most horrible message you can see on Windows 95 & 98. 1st spot goes to blue screen of death.
Lost an entire week to IDE harddisk jumpers and having no clew what they were and no one to ask or look it up. The moment of realisation after all those days and hours was a humbling mixture of feeling stupid and finally getting anywhere.
You could just visit the library. There were plenty of books that described old hardware, interrupts, IDE jumpers, proprietary CD controllers, etc. etc.
@@JethroBodine1422 unless you run into a network printer, on the company network, that's visible to the client computer, but just refuses to print the test page. I mean... I gave up.
This is too accurate. Now I remember how my brother ran up phone bill in the thousands of dollar for using internet and BBS once and my parents were so upset.
YES ... still have memories of attempting to load up DOS games under Win95 - relatives would find out you were into 'computers' or 'computer games' and buy you something that was on sale and looked exciting but was from a generation or two back, and the driver / IRQ conflict stuff was remarkable, especially back then when I had hardly any idea what I was doing with computers
Hey man I adore your videos and the "daily routine" bit was utterly spot on for 90s/2000s interviews, but the cropping on the CRT made me immediately suspect they were just TH-cam videos playing from a modern computer. Especially the double pillar and letterbox on the 4:3 ones. Ultra wideo is the extension I use everywhere to fix TH-cam videos that are cropped wrong like that when I want to watch them in 4:3 on my CRTs.
the typical monitor would been calibrated to have thick margins to ensure a more geometrically accurate picture, but not as thick as seen in the video.
Thank you for doing this one, I traveled back in time for a bit, with tears of laughter, recognition, fond memories and a yearning to be back in those simpler times ❤
I like how we went full circle with mechanical keyboards being old school, old tech, to now being best kind of keyboard with all the types of switches, changeable caps, replaceable switches (you can even mix switch types in such a keyboard) and of course RGB everywhere.
These interviews are hilarious 😂 I really want to see a follow up to the *Next-door 10x Software Engineer* / *engineer that secretly runs your company*
The working disk set for linux hits. I remember not having 14+ floppies for SuSE back in the day so I got two and used another computer to write each disk when needed.
Hahahahaha i was there so thank you. After 2 years all the stress of the floppy was gone... Not sorry was much worse, due to non-functional SCSI 1X Speed CD burners setup.
As the internet became bigger and bigger, our critical thinking became smaller and smaller. For a programmer, the biggest handicap you can have is no critical thinking skills.
you got a time machine, because you nailed my youth, and i know you can't have been there, but you successfully make me feel the same age as you now, which also makes me feel old.
'Soundblaster 16 IRQ conflicts are a way of life' 😆 This guy really nails every aspect on the topic he's covering, from the hardware, the things he talks about, the environment (like the beavis and butthead poster), even down to that good-old ICQ 'uh-oh' sound in the back. Brilliant
Brings tears to my eyes from nostalgia. And I think if Geocities is still alive, my 90s website is as well. But that EA Sports logo is from the CD era already.
4:00 when he talks about video conferencing and “your boss can call you at home”. I wish I never experienced this. For my piece of mind, work and home should never mix. The excitement from not being stuck in traffic wears off after your brain associates home with work. And it interferes with your ability to switch off. Unless you have a dedicated home office where the room can divorce work from the rest of your home, this doesn’t work for a healthy work life balance (and your job isn’t going to pay you extra for the cost of having a home office). And when both partners are working from home (like during the great 2020 nightmare), even if you have a home office, the other will have to use another room, like the dining room or living room.
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"it's not plug 'n play, it's 'plug and pray'"
so fucking real tbh
I recall I did that joke to myself whenever I tried a new hardware...
This was where Linux was a couple of years ago lol
*bae has a big question, bae uses the intel iris Xe dg {asus} card to install on the celeron PC on bae channel,bae download the graphic card driver on the shengqi page. When only that card is plugged in, the screen is black. But when plugged in with Arc a750 (only plug the riser into the pcie with the auxiliary power cord, not plugging in the display output) plug in the display output by display port of the iris vga, the pc can be used and it is still receiving iris. The graphic Xe can use so much %, i also tested the card loading 100%, and the arc does not plug in the display output so in gpu 2 it says 0%. That means my celeron PC is definitely using the iris card. But bae does not understand that since til now,i still cannot let the machine run on only the iris card every time i remove the arc, the screen is black even though it is clearly not plugging in any kind of display and using display by Asus iris dg. Bae asked a lot of people in Vietnam but it seems like only I have encountered this situation in my country. I hope someone has an answer to help me because since then I have tried many ways like changing the pcie slot or trying to insert a different card with iris but nothing is working. If you knows the sistuation or anyone who capable of dealing with this, please contact f.b bae bê*
Yep, that's what we called it, back in the day
steve gibson used to say that too
Let's appreciate the fact he got a working 90's setup for this bit
Yeah, for real, grab the still working ones while you can, there are fewer and fewer every day. I got lucky to get my hands on a Tandy 1000 that still works.
What do you mean? That is his main computer. This was filmed in 1999.
Maybe it's all AI generated ;-)
Looks genuine, the casing is yellowed enough for 30 years ago.
@@MyAmazingUsername 🤣
If you weren’t defragmenting once a week back in the 90s you weren’t living.
Or parking the HD head before turning the PC off...
I had the equivalent of scheduled tasks (which also didn't really exist) to do defragments in Win95 and Win98 every Sunday evening. I also regularly printed out my IRQs, but people also forget that a lot of us were just reinstalling the OS every 1 or 2 years anyway from like 1995-2004. Windows XP was released in 2001, but it wasn't till like SP2 that it was really stable and supported enough as an OS to serve as a gaming computer.
and then you accidentally jiggle the mouse
Fun Fact: Buddy of mine messed up his HDD once after constantly kicking his PC (mostly when he was killed in a game). He fucked up some sector on his harddrive so he was forced to reinstall windows every day for like 30 minutes just to be able to play Icewind Dale.
I'm 22. I have countless memories of my dad sitting in front of the computer (I think it was Win XP) watching the defragmentation progress line slowly crawl up. His gf would mock him about it all the time "your dad's busy running defragmentation", referring to how he just stared at the screen doing nothing for at least half an hour.
Mind you this was mid 00s, not the 90s.
The aspect ratio is such a good detail
fuck I didn't realize, because my main screen is super old...
also the noise level
@@jan.tichavsky and those unnecessary scan lines
@@theycallmekenunnecessary? it's a CRT.
The amount of commitment shown here with the authentic hairstyle (the curtains) is to be commended.
According to the cyberpunk manifesto, I cannot like Microsoft.
But according to these disk errors, I cannot install Linux lmao
The days when you needed to know the brand of every computer component to know if Linux would install.
For my first linux installation I had to recompile the kernel with proper settings to get it run in graphics mode for my monitor.
cypherpunk*
For Slackware 1.0, I managed to install off a CD-ROM. Then once install was complete, Linux wouldn't recognize my CD drive.....
@@jorgamund07 Well, kinda like these days!
Kids will never know how futuristic it was to switch from Windows95 to Windows XP. And then trying to play games in Compability mode and your graphics is fecked up because it tries to simulate Win95...
XP to Vista also felt futuristic aesthetically. Too bad the performance was crap.
Encarta on win 95 felt like the moon landing
this sounds like playing games on linux using proton
@@ProOmgHeadshot Vista ran fine if you had the most expensive consumer grade hardware out there, what do you mean? I see nothing wrong there. You mean they installed it on budget laptops because of Microsoft? Unthinkable. Microsoft would *never* do such a thing.
@@CottidaeSEA ran fine on my pos budget pc, just needed that extra 512mb ram over xp
“Soundblaster 16 IRQ Conflicts are a way of life” - I’m old enough for that to trigger some painful memories. 😬
“I re-install Windows every 3 months. I back up all my data on floppies…. I loose all my data every three months.” … god this all feels far too relatable as a Windows ‘95 user back in the day!
I remember buying an SB16 in 95. It cost me a monthly salary but then I replayed every game I had one after another, reinstalling them from floppies. The proper sound after hearing only a PC speaker in the life before. That growl of the Doom monsters.
@@AlexDemidov You two are making me go a memory lane deeper than the video itself... I recall when I finally was able to understand how to setup IRQs via jumpers on boards, then set it up on Doom... I felt so powerful...
reinstalling windows every 3 months is also relatable as a windows 10 user
oh man, i really did have a soundcard that used the same IRQ as a modem. I had to unplug the modem for sounds or the sound for the modem. It was a pain in the ass.
I've reinstalled Windows so many times (mostly 98 but some 95 as well) that I knew 4 different license keys by heart. My record is 7 times in a day on the same PC trying to make a game work. Back in the day, that was our go-to routine. Reinstall Windows, install drivers again, etc. I had a CD titled "When the sh!t goes down" which contained installers for everything I needed plus some backups. I miss those days, it was a lot of fun :D
1:15 aint no way a 90s kid inserts a floppy the wrong way 💀💀
Only done to make usb kids feel better
honestly, that ruins the whole video for me.
That was hilarious. 🤣
When you have your computer locked down on a 23-disk installation of some MS crap, you do weird stuff...
I've done that often enough that when I saw him move his hands towards the computer I could already tell he was holding it wrong.
Jim is now middle-age.
I am now middle-age.
:(
I am now old age :( :(
I wanna go back. Born in 81
:(
@@ciscornBIG 1970. Get off my lawn!
Or as I like to say, "I'm a mage"
This video is extremely sharp for a 90s video.
" [Upscaled 4K]"
@@setheliot1 I can't disprove that claim
AI was upscaling it and that’s how Jim got his beard, it’s a hallucination
Prob a friend from an anime fansub group on IRC helped him clean this up.
"I have all my data backed up on floppies"
"I lose all my data every 3 months"
That is (was) very real
The real '90s hackers backed all their data up to public FTP websites and never looked back
floppies got demagnetized 💀
"I still can't get the printer to work." Some things never change. 😂
To be fair, back then I got the printer to work.
…and you could print black stuff even when the colour had run out.
I thought I would never have to see that photorealistic dancing baby again. You have injured me.
And this was amazing.
“Indie games” is terminology that started mid 2000’s from TIGsource and after the release of early games like Aquaria and Darwinia and such had been released. Around the time Digg died, iirc.
The terms you want are Shareware and Freeware. How a lot of people played stuff like Terminal Velocity, Escape Velocity, sierra games, etc.
warez :D
@@palvaradinagy6703 abandowarez
I can remember developers like Naughty Dog and Shiny being referred to as “indie developers” in the 90s
Also nobody used the term bricked back then
@@spesialek I definitely don't remember this - I do remember Naughty Dog being used as an example of what Third Party developers are though, back when gaming magazines actually had articles n shit. Computer Gaming World, Game Informer, NEXT generation, PC Games, PC Gamer.
The "uh-oh" sound still triggers a panic response
The X-files poster was a nice touch
And was a South Park poster?
As is the Beavis and Butthead poster.
we are so back
back
back in the 90's
You get a pass for this one
I never left :)
This channel is so underrated! Such great humour :D
I sure miss this era of computers, however I sure as hell don't miss installing an operating system with 40 floppy disks
I can't recall which installation had about 14 disks and the installation "wizard" asked for them in a semi-random order...
@@ecostaSounds like Windows 3.1, its installation process was exactly that. 14 floppies, random order etc
OS/2
1:36 "Indie game studios" - I don't think there was such a terminology back in 1995
Yea that wasn't a terminology back then
Only after the iPhone did that term start picking up steam
where there non-indie game studios?
@@marsdriver2501 well, any games that are distributed by a publisher is not an indie game. That means practically any game that comes from a disc.
As for games that now are considered indie games, probably includes most stuff you find online, like flash games?
Back then they were just called "game studios"
I don't think "photorealistic" was a term used in computing back then either, even to talk about future graphics.
way too relatable. the hackers movie, not being able to switch to linux, warez, IRC channels full of stuff, AOL and ICQ sounds Damn its been a while🥳
X Files and Beavis & Butthead posters...
@@JethroBodine1422 nope... I started with 52k ;)
Morpheus and Limewire.
His future predictions are so spot on. The guy beats the Simpsons.
Brilliant! Took me back 30 years in an instant.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL! YOU'VE GOT MAIL! YOU'VE GOT MAIL!
✉
AltaVista is the future !
oh wait LYCOS might be better .
Unironically better than 2024 Google Search.
Those names do ring a distant bell, very distant...😂 Netscape was the browser right?
Found the Pawnee resident.
@@robertjenkins6132 True, they build monopolies (almost all search engines rely on data from Google crawlers) by eliminating all competition, and when done, they just crap on users...
40x speed is already end of 1999 or early 2000.
yea a lot of things were more like early 2000s... but close enough.
The sound of an incoming ICQ message really hit home
'This program has performed illegal operation and it will shut down....'
2nd most horrible message you can see on Windows 95 & 98.
1st spot goes to blue screen of death.
That message scared me so much when I first saw it as a kid. I thought the police were about to kick in the door and arrest me.
@@MScotty90that write outside of memory bounds? 5 year sentence
"Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue."
Segmentation fault.
0:52 "I cut the phone cord" Back when I had dail up, I had been tempted to do that as well.
Beautiful... even has some of the all-or-nothing predictions from the 90s that either came true or were nowhere near it.
"Flash-based mobile websites are the future." 💀
It really was
@@LuarVik-x1l it was indeed. for several years
Legends say he's resetting his mIRC trial to this day
Wow mirc. Who knew slack was hiding in plain sight for so long.
Maybe I missed it in the video. Not hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL once? Not once? Never? Why?
He just skips over Windows 3.11. The youth is so oblivious to our glorious history.
Many did. Even as an amiga user, dos felt better than win3.x.. Went dos to win95 myself
If you had computer just for gaming Win 3 was not a must. DOS was enough
This channel is gold. It’s a series of pseudo-documentaries that really capture the zeitgeists of the subjects.
only thing missing is connecting the joystick to the soundcard
Lost an entire week to IDE harddisk jumpers and having no clew what they were and no one to ask or look it up. The moment of realisation after all those days and hours was a humbling mixture of feeling stupid and finally getting anywhere.
You could just visit the library. There were plenty of books that described old hardware, interrupts, IDE jumpers, proprietary CD controllers, etc. etc.
I still can't get the printer to work applies even in 2024 :D :D :D
@@JethroBodine1422 unless you run into a network printer, on the company network, that's visible to the client computer, but just refuses to print the test page. I mean... I gave up.
Didn't expect to see a documentary about my childhood
This is too accurate. Now I remember how my brother ran up phone bill in the thousands of dollar for using internet and BBS once and my parents were so upset.
"It's way more stable" BSoD right on cue! 😂
"Stable" is a relative term.
Ha, bloody sound blaster. Vesa drivers were a pain in the ass too
Reading "Vesa drivers" still makes my eye twitch
I still have my sound blaster settings memorised from having to put it in the installer so often
YES ... still have memories of attempting to load up DOS games under Win95 - relatives would find out you were into 'computers' or 'computer games' and buy you something that was on sale and looked exciting but was from a generation or two back, and the driver / IRQ conflict stuff was remarkable, especially back then when I had hardly any idea what I was doing with computers
Really shows in Paint.
lol soundblaster 16, I'd almost forgotten about that. Blast from the past indeed.
Screw that. Adlib for the win!
When he said TSRs, I really felt that.
Hey man I adore your videos and the "daily routine" bit was utterly spot on for 90s/2000s interviews, but the cropping on the CRT made me immediately suspect they were just TH-cam videos playing from a modern computer. Especially the double pillar and letterbox on the 4:3 ones. Ultra wideo is the extension I use everywhere to fix TH-cam videos that are cropped wrong like that when I want to watch them in 4:3 on my CRTs.
the typical monitor would been calibrated to have thick margins to ensure a more geometrically accurate picture, but not as thick as seen in the video.
Thank you for doing this one, I traveled back in time for a bit, with tears of laughter, recognition, fond memories and a yearning to be back in those simpler times ❤
I really enjoyed the quality of the video, audio, and props on this one
Your username Ph4n70mM4n is painfully accurate. In the 90s, I was F1r3Dr4g0n. 😂😂😂
I like how we went full circle with mechanical keyboards being old school, old tech, to now being best kind of keyboard with all the types of switches, changeable caps, replaceable switches (you can even mix switch types in such a keyboard) and of course RGB everywhere.
"BUCKLING SPRING WITH N-KEY ROLLOVER"
-IBM Model F
I'm still on IRC after starting using with a Demon Internet Dialup Account from 1994 :)
I wish I was '90s happy
Instead Im 2024 happy (basically some sort of illness).
2024 happy aka "you'll own nothing and be happy"
@@Lawrence901you vill eat ze bugs
dudes. this channel is my crack cocaine. i love it because i've lived almost all of it. thank you for all you do. :D
These interviews are hilarious 😂 I really want to see a follow up to the *Next-door 10x Software Engineer* / *engineer that secretly runs your company*
1:26 Woah, full screen video playback in Windows at a framerate above a frame per second - that hacker has some machine back in '96 !
It may be a multimedia PC!
Take me back
So many funny and true comments here. That computer he has take me back, maybe 96 or so.
"I found my gf on phrack magazine" those were the days 😂
I had a 6 digit ICQ, prob could have sold that shit 😂
I still do
@@isleofgregICQ shutdown last year
@@Agret oh shit that’s sad I didn’t know
We had The X-Files, we were happy and we didn't know it!
4:3 aspect ratio - chef kiss
NAILED IT
GEOCITIES!!! 🤘🤘🤘
Those garishly colorful websites were kinda cool. The Internet is so bland nowadays.
US Robotics connecting...
Why did they call themselves that when they only made modems, not robots?
@@robertjenkins6132 probably because it sounds cool
I was throw back 30 yars in time! Hilarious (and so true). Congrats! P.S.: OS2 was missing.
The working disk set for linux hits. I remember not having 14+ floppies for SuSE back in the day so I got two and used another computer to write each disk when needed.
3:58 very realistic depiction of the absurdly unrealistic slang that 90s movies kept making up
Hahahahaha i was there so thank you.
After 2 years all the stress of the floppy was gone... Not sorry was much worse, due to non-functional SCSI 1X Speed CD burners setup.
absolutely love your videos, keep making more
As the internet became bigger and bigger, our critical thinking became smaller and smaller. For a programmer, the biggest handicap you can have is no critical thinking skills.
It's late December of 2024 and I'm watching this honour via headset with myself and a group of my friends all over the world so he's not that wrong
In the 90s every PC game dev was an indie dev. RIP Westwood
A dot matrix printer would have completed the ensemble
I started a print job at 10:30 one night and woke up my parents on the other side of the wall. It was an assignment for school. I had to...
you got a time machine, because you nailed my youth, and i know you can't have been there, but you successfully make me feel the same age as you now, which also makes me feel old.
IRQ Russian Roulette, too real. LMAO.
This is great :DDDD as an ex 90s computer nerd I can attest to the autheticity of this video
The background hiss, because of the "upscaling", is a brilliant touch
The Iomega click of Death
OH GOD
Memories man, memories.
Plug & Pray!
"Soundblaster 16 IRQ conflicts are a way of life" made me laugh way too much. From the trauma.
That's mostly late 1990-s, except floppies.
I love this person!
'Soundblaster 16 IRQ conflicts are a way of life' 😆
This guy really nails every aspect on the topic he's covering, from the hardware, the things he talks about, the environment (like the beavis and butthead poster), even down to that good-old ICQ 'uh-oh' sound in the back. Brilliant
Thank you for reminding me of my childhood!
Watching Hackers on PC, "RISC architecture is gonna change everything", this movie is so unrealistic.
I need this man's hairstyles.
I need his hair first, then haircuts will follow.
@@panosdotnet Man I wish I had his hair. Getting mine to do what his does is impossible. It can't do anything, hmm reminds me of someone.
its just a middle part
@@shade221 If only things were that simple😔 Type 1A hair sucks to work with
Oh I miss those old ttimes :>
5:00 dancing baby gif was NOT full screen fidelity. You could see it in a tiny realplayer window on your massive 640x480 screen.
It would drop resolution on fullscreen to 320x240 or so then video would be 160x120 and doubled (there was no rescaling)
Oh my god, I remember Pepsi World. Peak web design, what we should all be emulating today.
This is not even exaggerated.
3:09 Me from the future in 2024 yeah me neither
Great attention to details. Especially the aspect ratio 😁
oh dude, this took me back. Thank you ❤
LOVE the ergonomics!!!! Such a perfect detail.
Wished he had one of those desks with the pull-out keyboard tray 😄😄
Brings tears to my eyes from nostalgia. And I think if Geocities is still alive, my 90s website is as well. But that EA Sports logo is from the CD era already.
So good! Brings me back!
4:00 when he talks about video conferencing and “your boss can call you at home”. I wish I never experienced this. For my piece of mind, work and home should never mix. The excitement from not being stuck in traffic wears off after your brain associates home with work. And it interferes with your ability to switch off.
Unless you have a dedicated home office where the room can divorce work from the rest of your home, this doesn’t work for a healthy work life balance (and your job isn’t going to pay you extra for the cost of having a home office). And when both partners are working from home (like during the great 2020 nightmare), even if you have a home office, the other will have to use another room, like the dining room or living room.
my nerdy nitpick: CD Burners in 1996 were ~2x-4x speed maximum. The 40X speed ones probably didn't come out until 2002 at least.