Young People Try Windows 98
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Windows has changed a LOT over the last 24 years - but not nearly as much as some of our staff. What will they think of an operating system that predates their birth?
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I love how everyone is struggling while Anthony is straight up lecturing the viewer about how windows 98 used to work. what a chad
I want to see them try dos to be honest. That's what I grew up with
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He is infinite years old after all. 😉🤣
he's certainly 'next level'
@@vardekpetrovic9716 DRDOS was always a good choice.
Never in a million years would I have guessed Jake was 22. With the responsibility he seems to have given to him and how capable he is. Wow
I know right. Thought he was 25-27 something
He looks like a 38-year-old trucker...
I knew he was 17 when he started working there, didn’t realise it had been 5 years already.
He was doing LTT in high school?
If he is this knowledgeable now imagine him in 15 years
He was still in high school when he was hired at LTT. His responsibilities reflect how long he's been working there.
This windows 98 looks clean!
- No Ads
- Simple to the point user interface
- Very quick to load anything even on old hardware
When is this being released? At last Microsoft is on point and heading in the right direction! HYPED!
Quick compared to ? And what software exactly?
There wasn't t much more than Win98 to compare with. MS DOS ? Widows for Workgroups ? It was just as fast or slow. Games took a while to load (as they do now, but that's a different story). Win NT was also just as clean and fast loading stuff. Linux was pretty hard to set up… but just as clean and fast. Even cleaner. macOS? Fast. Clean interface.
Windows 7? Windows 10, Windows 11? Fast, clean interface.
Mac OS X, any version? Fast Clean interface.
Any Linux desktop out-of-the-box? Fast, clean interface.
Unless by “loading” you mean loading web pages… which would have been a tad difficult with Win98 in the beginning and was a real PIA later when internet finally appeared. I am not sure if you recall the times of Mosaic and CompuServe. It was a torture to load a proper web page. Then came IE and Netscape… anything but “fast loading” . And that in the rare cases when a page actually loaded, and you didn't have to reload it several times… We mostly used IRC, Usenet and mailing lists for anything serious.
You can have an interface as clean as you want it, that's a personal choice, not something inherent to the operating system or desktop environment.
Also: Many times slow loading performance is a self-inflicted illness when we stuff our computers to the brim with antiviruses, firewalls and “security” software meant for threats that don' t even exist anymore, when simply enabling Windows Defender is enough on any Windows version since Windows 7. Of course, if you use to visit questionable sites or click on emails from Nigerian princes, no antivirus will safe you. I worked for Symantec in the mid-late 2000s, that's how I know. I have also been using Windows 7 and 10 professionally for a very long time without a single case of infection.
TL;DR: Don't clutter your desktop with “themes” and don't install silly antiviruses, and you will have a clean interface and your programs will load fast.
Win95 was worse@@VFella
@@VFella Win 98 was quick if you had reasonable hardware.
@@dannygjk Oh, I didn't know that. Learned something new, for sure. I'm an IT professional, BTW. I have used Windows from Win1.1 on all sorts of hardware. And it wasn´t that there was much to choose back then. And I seriously doubt that it would beat MS DOS or MS DOS plus Novell Netware or Win NT, which was what it was competing with. Not to mention Mac OS 8 and later Mac OS 9. The latter was so nice that I installed myself a Power Macintosh G3 (the green one!!) in 2006 to use along WinXP.
Nah, dude, computers were terrible slow back then. And it wasn't just the perception from somebody used to modern top-notch hardware, it felt slow back then too.
@@VFella With each iteration of Windows they increased the demand the OS put on the hardware. I expect when I go to Win 11 I will need a super computer to maintain the same performance.
Once you get into your mid 40s, it's so weird to see youngins reminisce about stuff that is still sort of semi-modern and only came out when you were already an adult. To me, retro is stuff like the pre IBM PC days like the C64, Apple II, Sinclair Spectrum, TRS-80. PC compatibles can never "feel retro" in my mind, in particular because the platform is still around and used.
It is amazing how fast tech is still moving. Sometimes it feels like it is stalling, but then you look just 10 years back and you're like oh yeah, tech is still advancing very rapidly
It is kind of a cool time to be born into though. We got to witness those first waves of 8 bit home computers (as they were known then) in the 80s. Maybe you even learnt to program in BASIC by typing in code for games from a monthly computer magazine. Then the 16 bit machines like the Amiga and Atari ST, and the gradual rise and dominance of the IBM PC architecture, even as IBM totally lost control of it. I'm still typing this on my custom-built AMD gaming system, complete with flashing LED lights.
But one of my favourite memories is reading about something called the Acorn Risc Machine in a magazine in the high school library. It promised a revolution in computing. Well they took their time but the ARM chip is now the most common CPU in the world. It is in every Android or Apple phone or tablet!
@@JasonEllingsworth Especially AI related tech. I had NO idea we'd have these advanced general AI's and text to image capability, let alone text to freaking video! We're literally on the cusp of having virtual , very rudimentary, holodeck style tech. (minus the energy to matter thing)
Sinclair ZX81 here.
Add to the list the Amiga too back from the glorious Commodore days. ;)
When the plastic is getting yellow and brown, you know it's retro. lol
I didn't realize Jake was that young. It makes sense why Linus adopted him
😅🤣😆😂
Yeah, I'm shocked to know that he is only 3 years older than me. Kinda gives inspiration
Wait he is one year YONGER than me??? What???
Linus ain't that old either...did he do commodore 64 or just visit one...
I think it is for a joke
I love how this is 3 people confused and Anthony just showing you around as if it is his daily driver. It’s like he’s showing you around his house
I mean, let's be fair, if win98 was a house, Anthony and LGR would be living next to each other. XD
@@IngwiePhoenix if win98 was a house, ...I'd burn it down. sorry, can't go on with it. without the nostalgia factor (and intentionally installing it for some retro setup), neither antony nor clint would happily install vanilla win98 to enjoy as their daily driver. 98 was a horrible mess on release; less chaos than 95(+patches), but a pain in the butt until OSR2(.5)
For those of us that were into computers back then. Win98 was really where we learned to hack and tweak the OS, about Windows networking and the old winsock reset fix when all else failed (similar symptoms and cause as today's need for -flushdns on ipconfig). I doubt any of us that cut our teeth on that OS and it's predecessor will ever forget either. They were tedius enough to build muscle memory.
@@GutnarmEVE i agree, my retro gaming goes back as far to XP. XP is still good to this day (execpt the security flaws )
@@GutnarmEVE Windows 95 had OSR releases. Windows 98 had one Service Release and then Service Pack 2.
Man ... this was something else. Thank you so much for making this episode. I honestly really miss that time and really nothing brings back that nostalgia like the awesome themes that Win 98 came with. I remember Jungle was my favorite.
I'm 40 and basically had the same PC upbringing as Anthony. Appreciate these vids. I actually still use old XP VMs for work stuff to connect to old equipment.
I love how Emily was in her element the entire time, but the moment CnC comes up she just immediately gets even more focused.
@Henry-Atkinson:
I'm a mechanical man :-) .
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(Yeah, I'm grooving to the song :-) ).
there is a remastered version for that one but I really hope they do Tiberian Sun next or just a new C&C game
@@jhonshephard921 See I wish EA weren't such greedy bastards and weren't milking the IP for all it's worth with "remasters" that could be accomplished just as easily with free upscalers and community mods.
I'm mainly just salty that, in order to legally purchase C&C Generals, which the me of 2004 didn't have the hardware to run, I'll have to pay for the full C&C collection--half of which I already own--and play it through their stupid launcher.
Anthony is GOD!
@@GSBarlev The C&C Remaster was well done and fairly cheap, the original game is a pain in the ass to get going and the fan made versions like OpenRA are solid but it isn’t the same. It was a good love letter to fans, Tiberium Sun was kinda unfinished when it came out so a remaster that finishes the work they started would be great.
It's hilarious to see everyone, including Linus, struggle, and then see Anthony explain it as effortlessly as reading off a script XD
Anthony is the GOAT
Maybe because he's a script writer?)))
Anthony ☕
Infinity years old 😁
I relate the most to Anthony on this video tbh.
I was introduced to old computers like this through my grandmas old PC that ran windows 98. I never had the PS/2 mouse needed for it, but I did have a PS/2 keyboard and quickly got used to using the keyboard to navigate. I really wish I still had it but its' CPU gave up after a few months. But it had the same kind of front cd drive with dedicated 3 mm jack and volume. I also discovered that with a cd player like the one you guys have, that even in dos mode, the audio from the cd player will still come through the speakers if you press the physical play button even when not actually in windows 98. It also had a Zip 100 floppy drive on top of the normal floppy drive. It was very cool to use.
Loved this little blast from the past. When Win 95 came out, I was working at Bell Atlantic supporting Compaq computers. I remember having to help people get their computers upgraded from 3.1 to 95 on the Prolineas and Proliants.
Hearing other 22-year-olds asking such questions as "what is dial-up" or "Is [Command and Conquer] an RTS?" has really made me understand what people feel when they say they're old.
I know, huh... Like the "play CD audio from the front panel" challenge. Man that one had so many "oh crap, I'm old" moments.
"It sounds really good" -- yeah, 'cause it's not a 96kbps stream from a subscription service played over a Bluetooth keychain fob. It was CD audio. :-)
* loads Windows Media Player * ... no, you can't use that, because the front-panel analog audio port won't work.. Er, right... see, CD-ROMs had analog playback before we all used DAE. Oh, um, DAE is "digital audio extraction", which reads audio data directly from the CD instead of ... * sigh * So, a CD is a disc that has music on it. But, like, you can use it offline ... which is ... yeah, so, "offline" ... OK, imagine going into airplane mode, but it's like 24/7...
Oh yeah, I know the feeling. Some months ago I had to explain to a 26 years old girl what a floppy disk was, in that moment I realized that I'm starting to pile up years xD
I know I was born in 99 and used xp, 98, dial up, and have known about C&C forever. I'm like "how do you not know dial up?" Also dial up was your phone connection as well, so that's why you could use the pc as a phone and make calls. Even though it would sound absolutely terrible.
Just ask him what modem bonding is, that will stump most
@@mima85 lol what? I'm 27 and remember my dad having piles of those and having few myself with some dos games 😄
Anthony launching C&C and going "I don't really need the barracks" has this menacing energy about it, like he's going to speedrun it in 0.6 minutes once the camera stops rolling.
IKR, bloody loved that. In that generation you could bork the game by editing the config files, which weren't compressed yet. I loved playing Tiberian Sun with an AT-AT firing blue lasers at obscene range. 🤣
@@InservioLetum oh I think I still have a floppy full of different versions of ra2.ini somewhere. It was a primitive version of game modding.
I would bet good money Anthony is or was a spring player. Basically community improved and balanced C&C with way more robust netplay. I was introduced to it like 20 years go and it's still going pretty strong.
Anthony was actually on his 4th game when they cut back to him and was about to start a blindfolded run when he was told to move on.
I spent so many hours playing C&C:RA back in those days. Loved it.
I still use dxdiag. I mainly use Linux now days, but during the days of Windows 98, I quickly learned that dxdiag was the only place that gave you all of the important specs in one place, and I've used for every version of Windows since, even though that's not the case anymore. Much easier than trying to figure out where that information is every time a new version of Windows comes out. Window+R -> dxdiag. So much faster than trying to figure out where they hid it this time.
On a side note, I really appreciate that you had someone doing this who knew pretty much everything. Things like the internal cable from the CD drive to the sound card are little details that most people never even knew were a thing!
Me 2, still use dxdiag. Every time I get a new work computer and I need to see what spec they actually gave me.
Did this video just call me old?
Anthony coming in and explaining things like he's holding my hand makes me feel safe
Wow, Jake is much younger than I thought he was. What a brilliant young man...
I was literally pausing the video as I couldn't believe it.
Yeah, I assumed he was in his 30s, he's just a baby compared to Linus 😂
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A while back I thought he would be at best a -98'er and more likely to be born in 1996-1997 because IIRC he started at LTT right after school but alas.
He has the look of a man who will look the same for at least four decades. People looking at his pictures far in the future will have no idea when that picture was taken just by looking at his face.
I was so ahead back then , but thought I was way behind. Using 95, 98, learning Unix and HTML and using Macs too I can't believe how much time has gone by.
Anthony actually knowing his stuff and going on to educate, gets cut off by the other's shinanigans. Great video guys!
hehe
The more LTT videos I watch, the more convinced I become that Anthony is a walking encyclopedia.
He is a genius I swear
Funk and Wagnalls or Brittanica? 😆
Anthony FTW!
His age being displayed as ∞ (infinite) at 2:32 just makes sense.
Some of us were there when the old magic was written
Man Anthony is just like google for computers. He's amazing. It was fun watching people play around with old OS systems.
I totally feel ya on the file sharing over network, i got it working but only after huge hastles, and it was so sensitive that any changes to the network like restarting the PC might affect it.
17:58 there was even dedicated program that slowed those old games to be playable on high-clock CPUs. It was called "moslo". For Win98SE there was even unofficial service pack made by community, which added a lot of quality of life features from WinMe, 2k and XP.
Awesome how everyone is trying hard and Anthony just tells a story on every thing they had to do and knows how to do all of them really well.
Indeed, so much that makes me think he's my age! but no, he's quite younger (I'm 50). It's just that IMO this man was a fantastic wise nerd already at the time of birth.....! :O
It's like all tech he ever interacted with is indexed for all eternity in that beautiful mind of his.
@D Now that you say it... I started college (or uni, as we say in EU) in '91. I ended High school (tho the length of that varies from country to country) dunno if in '90 or '91, as classes begin on September. So, even Windows 95 was not something that existed for me till almost ending college (I handled DOS and the arcane and previous Windows 3.11). Lol, I even remember yet handling some DOS based graphic programs in 4th college year. I ended Fine Arts in '96, but should have ended in '95, I believe (made a first year in maths career, then changed my path).
But somehow he seems a tad younger than 50, dunno... I've always imagined he'd be around 30 - 35 , lol.
@D Sorry the late reply, been busy... It has been a particularly warm summer (still on it ofc). But really, I live in the warmest area of Spain, southern EU, we got 40º- 45º C every summer, with peaks of 47 sometimes (in Seville and Cordoba, only, and 40 -42 _max_ (in summer) usually in the rest of the half southern part, including Madrid, the north is cold and rainy...Except this year!! ).. It's been just like that. Honestly, the main difference in my south area (but people in Galicia (north) are not used to this) has been that it has been longer, for longer days, and that that the hottest days have been sooner. But not higher peaks. Right now we have a few days with very good temps (32 - 36) for this time of the year. The worst issue (that's why we're getting so many fires) is the lack of rain for a very long time. The water dams (reservoirs) are close to empty in the south (14% or so, and in some places it's 1% !, average of 40% sth in the country). But of course, it's _much_ worse in Africa. In the rest of EU, well, it's crazy, as they don't get ever these temps. In satellite view it can be observed how the south-east of England has become yellow, instead of green (from that view). And in much northerner countries (Finland, etc) they have had people suffering from this (in some countries even with heat strokes), as for them 35 C is a heat wave. Just like for us 20 or 30 C below zero is absolutely terrible (my winter gets 0 degrees as lowest, only 3 or 4 days). The entire continent has had struggles with climate (and I'm afraid each year is going to get worse, it's the change). But it's that we're used to very moderate conditions and no disasters, while in Asia, Africa or America, a lot more disasters (floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc) happen. Right now the issues are fires all over EU, mostly due to the very dry weather and that the land has been abandoned, as few people working on it leaves a ton of combustible vegetation (dry bushes, leaves) that used to be cleaned by the animals and the people. Bad timing with the energy issues and the war. But we'll manage.
I love that Anthony knows everything and is casual about it. Dude is the best.
It's his PC.
I love that his age was the infinity symbol. Thusly proving that Anthony is, in fact the modern deity of computing. I am making a screen saver with a spinning Anthony head so my computer can pay homage.
I would watch a 25 min anthony with just him playing old shit and talking
I can't help to think about my father when I watch this. He was a PC lunatic but he was swept away by his job. We bonded shortly over computers and a few days before he died, our last real conversation, was about the PC and the ability to upgrade.. Man he would kick himself if he knew that his son would grow up to be a PC enthusiast and I have dedicated my life to the platform... RIP dad.. 22 years went past fast, greetings from your now 33 year old son
may his soul RIP 🙏
I would've so enjoyed using Win 98 all over again! I'm to-be 25 in a couple of months (so, pretty much the same age as the OS itself) and the fact is to this day feels the most familiar to use. I did upgrade to XP in November of 2002, but 98's just filled with irreplaceable moments.
98 was so good. Like, literally never had any issues with it, everything worked as it should.
I flipping love Anthony's way of explaining everything as easy as possible so everyone understands.
I aspire to describe old tech as well as Anthony.
The "A" in "Anthony" is for AWESOME!!
@@steveg6199 I'd say it's probably "Ancient"
Haha Anthony is the goat!
These poor, tiny, lost children trying to play C&C. "Am I the boat?" "What's going on?"
...And Anthony is just whipping out the strats from memory. Love it.
I appreciate this comment so much. I was playing C&C two days ago for nostalgic reasons at work and I had post millennia babies asking me what game I was playing. I had to refer to Starcraft 2 for them to know what I was talking about. I was proud to tell them that this is the RTS king that started it all.
It's burnt into our brains.
Just like the music!
Dunn Da-Dunn Da-Dunn-Dunn, Da-Dunn-Dunn Dum Dum,
Dunn Da-Dunn Da-Dunn-Dunn, Da-Dunn-Dunn Day Doy!
Booo Booo Booo Booooooouu, Bwow wow woohoooo!
.... ok, I'll stop
@@them3atstick753 At least you didn't have to say "You know these MOBA games? Also, you know Tower Defence games? Well, back in the day, we actually had a genre of game which combined both of these into one. Actually, that was what started it all, before it was split into two..."
@@silkwesir1444 dunn dunn dunn dunn dunn - just do it up!
Jake is older than me by 2 years and i played cnc red alert lol
The first OS I ever used was Windows ME. Spent a lot of time in Microsoft paint and windows media player. I also remember having a bunch of CDs for software that came with my computer purchase. From there I went to XP and then two windows seven. Switched over to Mac for about nine years and recently came back to Windows 11.
man... ME. What a terrible shit show that was. I was given an old Dell Optiplex that had Windows ME from an old childhood friend/girlfriend. I figured I'd give it an honest go to see if ME was actually as bad as what everyone said it was. It didnt last a week before I nuked it and installed 98.
Actually CD-ROM drive audio can be played outside PC, you just need power and headphones or speakers, but speakers needs to bye amplified/powered because signal is quite weak. Used it years ago on old car battery or any trafo from old radio .
I thought Jake was in his 30s, he's just a baby! Damn, I feel old since my first Windows OS was 95. I was born in '85.
windows with networking support lmao 3.11 but that ran on dos and i go back to ibm dos ver 3 ,something
try a 20 hertz cpu with 12 meg of ram and 9600 baud communication
Got someone of my age. Mine was 3.1, in my computer training center. 98 SE and 2000 were so advanced feeling at the time they came in. I felt like we have reached the peak of humanity.
@@mobiousenigma Megahertz surely? :D
@@mobiousenigma if it had 12.megs of ram and 9600 baud comms it was 20 megahertz. 20 hertz couldn't run a data connection that fast
Yea, I thought he was in his 30s...my first Windows os was 95 too and I was born in 81.. I was later introduced into 98..
imagine the time they're recording this, everyone else is a bit scared on how they're going to do this... anthony on the other hand...walked through the door with a smile on his face, just pure smug and i love it
Everyone else, even Linus, is struggling and asking how they do something; Anthony is providing all of the back story to how the drivers worked. Knowing the right Soundblaster profile to work with his sound card is the biggest flex in this whole video.
@@robertdavezac Yep, he even got that obscure bit about the CD players right, left out that some (most that I saw) had the play/pause button on the front, if the system was powered on you didn't even need Windows to play a CD.
Username checks out
@@robertdavezac I'm absolutely with you - excpept for the Soundblaster Pro Settiing. Everyone playing games with some kind of Soundcard in his PC knew that back in the day- it was the inofficial standard every sound card had to comply to be useable for games for years - and therefore only such card would be bougth by anyone in the first place. Sound Blaster compatible was typically written on the package, Soundblaster Pro meant it was stereo, as far as I remember.
I remember "config sis" and in the bios format, or format/u to wipe the hard drive :) Things like that come back to me seeing this. Thank you!
I remember that my dad created a briefcase for me and my brother to keep stuff in. We didn't know about the syncing stuff so one day we synced against nothing, and removed all content from the briefcase. Never used it after that. Ah memories.
I love how she changed the font colors to the point that she couldn't read the text. Everyone who was ever on Windows 98 did that to themselves at least once, lol.
Aweeee! I forgot about the hourglass next to the cursor😂🥰
And next it happened was with night mode in apps.
Guilty
I used W98 a lot and never did it :P
agreed that yellow or light blue made it so bad haha
Anyone else loved to watch the Disk Defragmenter run as a kid? When a bunch of blocks would be collected and then reappear fast, so satisfying
My dad loved it so much, he also used it his on USB thumb drives.
jep
Still have that urge to defrag. It really did feel pretty good. And it definitely felt like everything ran faster afterward. Because the blocks changed color. Of course it's faster now. Problem solved.
I used to start it before bedtime, and fall asleep while watching it. I turned out normal despite that
Yep, but when hours turn into days you lose interest pretty fast. "Defrag not completed as it is full of errors". You get so frustrated you FORMAT C: and lose everything.
I remember borrowing Terminal Velocity from my cousin as a kid. The "Descent" games are also excellent.
Anthony reminds me of some of the dudes I went to high school with around 1998. Like I was pretty savvy with Windows since 3.1, but guys like him would come along and have to explain the 3.5mm jack on the CD drive (which to this day I still don't get why it's needed)
Everyone is making guesses and trying while Anthony easily dives deep into ANYTHING in front of him, damn I love Anthony
That's my vibe and I love it.
Briefcase was NOT used for syncing PDA's. That's what ActiveSync was for. Briefcase was for floppies. You would bring your work docs in the floppy, run briefcase and it would update the files with the one in the floppy. Then you work with the files on the Briefcase and sync with your floppy when done.
It was supposed to be simple. Nobody ever used it AFAIK.
@@mrdownboy I think you could also use it via network (in the loosest sense, i.e. not only Ethernet but also Null-Modem-Cable etc.) which actually would be the preferred choice if you had the option. To do it with floppies was just an afterthought to accomodate those less fortunate. Ultimately it was intended for laptop users, I think, and I also doubt it was used much at all.
I love listening to Anthony explaining stuff and then going to everyone freaking out. It is perfect. He just has such a calm voice and knows this stuff still. Great video
Anthony is the consummate technology expert. He encounters something old and explains as fully as possible in the given time, the context and functionality.
@@vinnietedeschi5374, I think he's an attention seeker. He was meant to be a part of this segment but he put on his "Docu-voice" and explained all the things nobody asked him to.
@@MaffeyZilog Says the Dude writing a comment nobody asked for. Oh wait so am I :0 ...it almost seems like we all need a bit of attention sometimes. Also its literally his job to explain stuff. If you dont like him thats fine but why make up some bs pschoanalysis?
@@abehme Are you OK after that meltdown?
Tears dry yet, little fella?
@@MaffeyZilog Aww how cute. Masking the lack of rethorical skill with belitteling. But hey its okay to cope Im not judging.
Wow! I had the Microsoft Sidewinder Dual Strike (1:06). It was so difficult to use on Tony Hawks 2. Once you got the hang of it, though, it was okay.
My childhood IBM still runs W98 (it was the only family computer till 2008) and I still sometimes play Sims 1 and Moomin games etc on it when visiting family. As a kid I remember being so scared of all the different system pop-ups that said "program has performed an illegal action and will be terminated", I fully thought the police were after me 😂
Jake is only 22....?? No way!
I'm in Anthony's camp age wise, 98 was my first real OS I used as a kid, it was pretty awesome----back then of course. So much better than 95 IMHO.
Me too, 95 in school, 98 at home. Then xp for ages.
I know right!!!! How the F*** and I older the Jake. I turn 24 this month and I'm still in collage.
Man I feel old and useless in comparison to Jake.
How would you know it's so much better than 95 if that was your first one? I mean, you downgraded later?
@@nickcollins1052 that's ok! I did my masters at age 27.
College life is fun though try to enjoy it unless you're from STEM field then we are basically fucked for life.
@@Arts11234 Education. So not much better when like 80% of the shit being taught to you is useless once you get into your job because to be able to do it requires resources your never gonna have, money your never gonna have enough of, or children that act like mindless obedient robots which they never will
Anthony: "I can't right-click the taskbar and get task manager."
Yes yes, enough about Windows 11, what about Windows 98?
luckily ctrl + shift + ESC works, that's literally the only way I know how to open the task manager on Win11
@@MikeDawson1 it's the simpler way tbh
Right click the start button
@@MikeDawson1 Right click start and chosse Taskmanager from there. Not hard to find out.
@@MikeDawson1 Right click the windows icon on the taskbar.
Ahhh, Windows 98… Let me say that I didn’t start with MS Windows until 3.1 and later Windows for workgroups 3.11. I actually used the Windows 95 Beta (Chicago) for over a year and there were parts of the release that the beta did better. I used NT 3.51 at the office until they upgraded to NT 4.0… and later 2000… Windows 98 SE was a nice stable gaming platform in the day and I still use it in a few VM’s as I like some of those old late 90’s games.. that won’t work with later versions. I had XP forever (and still see some companies using it) and love it too… I had a friend tell me I was nuts when I bought my first notebook because I chose XP over Vista… but I never had a problem (still have the notebook in fact) but he had nothing but issues w/ Vista… Hell, I only ran Windows 7 for about 4 years before my office upgraded to windows 10 and I finally upgraded my personal system to use it.. Now I’ve moved over to Mac… though at work I still use Windows 10.. I know I’ve used some older versions on newer systems. Man do they run fast.. Let’s face it. I ran Windows 95 on a 486dx4-120… w/ 20 megs of ram (I believe I still have the boards and 30 pin simms somewhere in storage). Hell, my first hard disk was 120 Megs.. seems like a long long time ago now… got that system when my Daughter was an infant.. she’s over 30 now.
You try this CP&M or DOS 3.1 LOL And don't forget the fun we had setting jumpers on ISA cards to get the Serial or Printer (LPT) ports to work! And what fun dialup was!
When someone says, you remember ten years ago and I'm like "Yeah, we used windows 98, it was really cool!" Then you realize that was over 20 years ago and you're old.
I had luck in my life that I was born in the nineties and that my father was an IT enthusiast. In the nineties, we used the latest and powerful Windows systems for that time. My father, the IT enthusiast, was engineer for me at this time. He really mastered Excel and Windows and he taught me a lot. The bookshelves were full of books "for dummies" (if you remember that kind of books) from which my father solved all the problems we had with the computer at that time. Today, I am an IT specialist and my father does not know the latest Windows systems. I "broke" his computer several times, but he always knew how to fix it himself, with a little help of those books. Today it is the other way around. He helped me so that I can help him today. I like the video.
Thats awesome! He brought you up well.
You the real MVP! 🗿
My story/background is exactly like yours. My dad was the IT enthusiast, who would buy the latest and greatest to learn for his job requirements as he didn't have money to pay for seminars and get CE's, so he just taught everything himself pulling all-nighters via books like the For Dummies series and a few others, and in turn also taught me things along the way. I am now a subject matter expert in my IT MOS in the Army while also managing an IT business full-time and dabble with AI/ML while he enjoys his retired life sticking to Win7 and reminiscing the good ol' XP days haha. But all that I was able to achieve and accomplish was all on the foundation he helped me build. Crazy how some of us come from completely different walks of life but still end up with astonishingly similar backgrounds/foundations just from the years we were born and the era we grew up in lol.
In 1998 I got a computer from The Catholic Church that had an "evaluation build" of Windows 2000 Professional - I had the baddest OS of all my friends and it was my first real computer.
This describes my childhood pretty well too. the 90's were an amazing time to grow up with computers and the internet.
I love how Anthony knows everything as if he coded the OS himself. Virtual high five, my man.
Everyone who used these systems professionally (in IT or IT adjacent roles) knew all this stuff about their system(s) of choice. You had to to use the system effectively. Many professional users and developers today are so isolated from the underlying system and only know their applications and the few system things they need to use those applications effectively :(. In the Windows 3.x, 95, and 98 days, knowing the hardware and OS to a ridiculous degree was pretty standard.
@@BrianBlock totally agree.
@@BrianBlock That wasn't just true for professionals. Every serious gamer knew every hidden $#!t of those OSes. Because they had to.
@@CakePrincessCelestia a bit like Linux is now
nerdalert
Great and fun video. Ofc, some of the users are very knowledgeable IT people with very successful YT channels. Thanks to them too for helping me out on my latest PC build.
9:03 Bro. The jack on the front of the optical drive always worked. This way:
- you could use them as CD-players when you were working on something or could make a bricked computer useful
- you could troubleshoot if the thing actually worked or not, sometimes handy when that cable, or soundcard, or software setting was the issue. So signal didn't go through the system.
Whoever edited this episode deserves an Oscar for nostalgia. Excellent work.
Edzel did the editing on this one
@@westonjones6670 you meant Aprime.
Anthony's wiseness is truly infinite. I appreciated that detail a lot.
*wisdom, young grasshoppa.
@@InservioLetum According to multiple dictionaries, wisdom is more widely used but believe it or not, wiseness is technically a valid word.
There was always a bit of a competition in the offices I worked at over who had the 'coolest' tile (repeated over whole screen). I ended up collection several hundred of them, kinda miss those days. I distinctly remember a tile called Lizard for being awesome and then who cant forget PINBALL game. :o)
Windows versions that had this classic version of theme manager allowed you to make a complete and functional DARK MODE.
I have XP on old offline computer that is used for diagnostic software for my car.
Made a dark mode theme based off the Adapta-Nokto GTK theme.
"Young people try Windows 98"
"What do you mean 'try' we grew up with it"
"Many of our staff weren't born when Windows 98 came out"
"Oh, man I am old"
Surname "Young"...
Yet no DP...
Curious....
Wait 98 is seen as "old"..... Cries in 95'
I’m 21, born in 01, my first OS was XP, and by the time I got into middle school most computers were struggling with the POS that was W8. I’m graduating with my Bachelor’s degree this spring. :)
My immediate thought was "that's not that old, my first windows was 3.11". My second thought was "Oh no."
@@KatzRool And in the video itself:
Anthony *Young*
∞ Years old
"What is Dial-up?!" had me in stitches. I remember downloading Netscape @ 27MB in size and just walking away to tell my family not to pick up the phone. For two hours.
Brrrroooo Limewire!
I lost it at the exact same moment, had to wipe my screen afterwards.
Yeah, I remember when you had a certain number of hours each month you could be "on" the internet. You had to plan it out...
Man's working at LTT and doesn't know what Dial-up is.
i remember one time my mom simply accidently knocked out the cord out....boy I remember being so pissed that day.... 🤣
amazing how much stuff came pack. I never used the breifcase, either. fond memories of quake 2 multiplaying with 50 people.
Feeling special since I started from DOS with Norton Commander, then Windows 3.11, 95 and on Win11 now :-) Going from Trident ISA video card through RTX 4090 brings lots of memories..
I always loves how Anthony explain something.. he makes it more interesting and easy to understand.. I wish Anthony is my lecturer..
He reminds me one of my computing tutors at Uni back in the late 00's when I was a mature student. Made things so easy to understand (this was hardcore network stuff too!)
This video made me feel so old though. I was in my late teens when 98 came out!
His ability to be in explanation mode is great.
Few things in life make you feel like successful talker like explaining computers to your mother's friend. I remember trying to explain trying to find fault in her computer and ending up saying "Computer is yeah, one device but it is actually like... a BUNCH of devices even in the same one board this laptop has... And you just have to figure out or guess where the issue is and pray it is not something I as humble semi-free support can do stuff about."
Luckily, it usually is hard drive and I may extra luckily have a spare I do not need nor need to be paid extravigantly for but that one time someone with laptop says "Someone said it might be the GPU, can't we just replace the GPU" to which I answer, in very different manner, "Yes, if we were Louis Rossman, but we are in a country with zero Rossmans so pray it is not that."
Anthony is really a walking PC knowledge library. I wonder if I could remember that good if I try 98 again as he does. But I mean is was directly on 98 SE as I get my first Windows PC, avoid the PC for a long time in the 90s.
Anthony should just have an online class for computers, ok I kid but still....
@@SumeaBizarro Similar experiences here, except... usually it's not hard drive. usually it's a software problem, so a fresh reinstall will help. If it's not that, it usually is either RAM or some unspecific "must be something wrong with the motherboard because we ruled out everthing else"...
Me throughout most of this: oh man, yeah I remember this, love seeing the responses.
Then at 7:23 "Dial up, what is dial up?"
I suddenly had to turn up my audio to full blast, felt two discs in my spine start to fuse together, I blew out my knee, broke my hip, spat out 62% of my teeth, and now my skin looks like the seat to a well overused leather couch.
Yeah, I think I'm older than Anthony so I hear you on the age thing. Nonetheless, it's pretty fun to watch the next generation tinker with what I had to work with as a young adult.
I assumed that was a joke.
I'm only just now realizing it likely wasn't. Shazbot.
I remember playing games on Windows 98, such as Thief: the Dark Project, Baldur's Gate, Warcraft II, Civilization II, and Heroes of Might and Magic III.
Some of those I played all the time then and haven't looked at since and others are classics that I still play now. Heroes of Might and Magic III remains a favorite among my friends and family and we still play it together during visits.
7:23 "What's dial up?" The modem dial and connect sound was pretty amazing, that's the sound to connect us to the world.
Anthony succeeding at Command and Conquer before the other people even figured out what type of game it is is absolutely hilarious.
I mean have they ever heard of Starcraft?
@@alext3811 Dune friggin 2, broheim.
@@23wtb Huh, guess my Gen Z is showing.
@@23wtb Dune2 could be a 1.2MB phone game these days! Or the minigame on your PIPBOY3000!
Fun story, I let my mom use my gaming PC for typing up a document... she walked away from the computer for a few minutes and when she came back a virus had infected the computer. She called me at my friends house (on a land line phone lol) and was freaking out about it. I asked her what she saw on the computer and she described the pipe screensaver. She was legit scared and almost crying cuz I had saved up my own money to buy it myself and she thought she broke it!
D'awwwww.
Reminds me of people who thought the CD tray was a cupholder, & used it as such. Or that old lady who tried drying her poodle in the microwave after a shampoo.
@@RogerThat1945 haha cd as cupholder never heard before only americans can get to it
@@unnamedsoldier5446 idk what being american has to do with a cd tray cupholder lol
@@peik_haikyuu2265 because no one in the world woud figure it out for this 😂
I started with shells in DOS environment, but about mic before it was a deal is it front panel soundcard or back. CD ROM audio jack is different story then front panel audio jack. I believe later they stoped to produce CD ROMS with audio jack because it was stupid :D
My Briefcase was an underrated program! I feel like it wasn't that long ago that I was still using a lot of these features. I was using XP at my government job until like 2012, and that was my main office computer! We of course had other systems running Windows 2000, DOS, and custom software designed in 1980.
When linus says, "I remember this being a lot cooler" that pretty much sums up all things I revisit from my childhood.
It's weird because that's how I felt when it came to revisiting retro games for a while. I recently bought a 4:3 CRT, and the memories came back...
@@curbacz16 Was gonna say this, I used to work at a retro arcade
@@curbacz16 I remember going back to GameCube games from my childhood and wondering why they looked so much worse than I remembered, then I played them on a CRT and it looked exactly how I remembered it being all those years ago. That is when I fell in love with CRTs again. I currently have one on my desk next to me RN.
Literally me when i decided to watch Power Rangers again 😂😂😂
This video inspection to download goosebumps
Anthony is like a wise man living at the top of the mountain who gets visitors asking for his wisdom.
Classical intelligent INTP!
Totally Dadsplaining :D
lmao infinite years=infinite wisdom
Show me one thing that wasn't already spoon fed to him that was Win anything. He's no guru; he's a guy that was given a computer that had 98 installed because it took more effort than a wim 7 to 10 machine.
@@JavaBum Who hurt you as a child? lmfao 😂😂
my first PC ran "Dos 3.11" then Windows. The Internet had no pictures, text only, let alone video. Hey! I'm still here. You are awesome Linus.
My college roommate and I used to record ourselves saying things backwards in sound recorder and use the reverse feature to see how close to "normal" it would sound. That was a "fun" Friday night back then.
Didn't own a PC, but friends houses we'd play Worms, or Dark Forces, Carmageddon or Half Life. Honestly mostly what we did was find all the civilian characters and kill them while avoiding the enemies because 13 yr old boys don't change.
My friend and I did this too when we were 10 or so! Good times
This sounds like an awesome party game or drinking game actually
I did it with music
Holy crap, as soon as they mentioned recording audio I received a wash of nostalgia of doing this. Was great back in the day metaring what limited options we had in life.
3:40 Fun fact: Briefcases were a feature that existed all the way up to Windows 10 1607 (the option to create them was removed in Windows 8, but existing ones would still work) before they were removed along with Homegroups presumably because Microsoft wanted to promote OneDrive for file sharing and backups
Yah and I am salty about that, I still used Briefcases and have zero interest in OneDrive or any other cloud based nonsense
I still used to setup homegroups until just a few years ago, I learned the process while trying to setup a lan party while playing Quake 2 with my bros.
never gonna forget it and I hate OneDrive.
I miss Mesh.
Briefcases were dope.
clouds are useless for this, what if you are somewhere without internet
My first hard drive was 10 megabytes. When it broke, we upgraded to 60 megabytes. It could keep multiple Sierra games installed at the same time. It was great!
When I was a Kid the only computer I used in elementary was a 1980'S Macintosh Pc own by my teacher not the school. In high school all we had was Windows 3.1 first PC we had at home was a Windows 95 my sister bought with Dial up Intenet, my first PC I bought was a win98 with DSL Intener service, DSL was a huge jump from dial up. XP later came along
0:20 That boot up sound *still* gives me chills.
The feeling of having the world *_suddenly_* at your finger tips, is a feeling I wish everyone could experience.
Summer camp was the only other possible way to converse with people NOT only from your immediate vicinity.
That start up sound brings back a lot of memories from the 90's, such a cool era to grow up in.
Yeah the Windows start up sounds from 95 to XP made the very act of turning on your computer sound like a glorious event. And, in a sense, it really did feel that way for a while.
watch?v=miZHa7ZC6Z0 paste this in yt search or after the / in the yt url this one gives me chills the most
@@IsmailofeRegime Yep same with the PS1 boot sound. It'd be awesome if they'd bring that back
That’s exactly how I felt when I had Windows 98. Like I literally could do anything and I have the world at my fingertips. It was an exciting time. Now it just looks so dated.
That 98 startup sound is nostalgically powerful and still sounds fantastic.
I remember being mesmerized by the flower box screensaver. Also the maze was a fun one.
one of the first operating systems I used at home! I still remember using Netscape.
"I remember this being a lot cooler" - exactly what I have in my mind when playing old games or using old systems.
Or watching old movies and tv shows
@@gongandfriends I can't tolerate laugh tracks any more. When i go back and watch old comedies that I used to like, just can't do it any more because once you're aware of how ridiculous and pointless the laugh track is, you can't undo. Even if i still like the show and it's still funny, just can't get past more than 5 minutes because of the laugh track.
TBH the UI customization in Windows95/98 is way more sophisticated than from Vista to now (XP had an option to use the old 95/98 UI). 95/98 let you change the color of most any UI component and the font of most any UI component. Windows 11 only dreams of being that customizable. Yea Stardock Windowblinds/Curtains is a thing, but that doesn't even work on Windows 11 these days. Hopefully Microsoft is addressing the lack of customization in Windows 12... but I doubt it.
@@Mr.Morden "95/98 let you change the color of most any UI component"
I have that feeling in 50% of the cases, that's true for old movies, music or books, too. Some stuff didn't age well, some I've grown out, but some holds up really well and I realize quite often that there was more to it
One of the games I played on 95 and 98 was Star Wars Rebellion and I still play it on Steam with the same graphics, just an optional battle system doesn't work properly anymore. Baldur's Gate was in that version also still a lot of fun, until I got the enhanced version, now I'm used to that^^
The most annoying thing when I tested an old version again, was actually the Firefox interface with a separate search bar ;)
It's so fascinating to look at something like the briefcase feature and notice just how much of a precursor it is to things like OneDrive and Dropbox
I was waiting for someone to say that “ohhh it’s the OneDrive!”
@@lcrazy8l I made a comment in another post but it was more often used in business settings to sync network drives to laptops as laptops did not have mobile internet available to them or it was too slow to use. So YA it is almost EXACTLY like OneDrive/Dropbox.
Pretty amazing when you consider how everything is constantly connected to the internet now. Just wasn't the case back then.
@@thestig007 Less less impressive when you grew up before the internet but I know my kids have a hard time comprehending it. The impressive part of the internet for me is the access to information.
I am more impressed with the computing power of my phone in my pocket.
Could do a whole series on early Pocket computers / PDAs / Smart Phones.
The iPhone triggered such a SUDDEN massive leap in that market it is more jarring than going back through old versions of windows on a PC.
@@YKSGuy You're definitely correct there. The smart phone brought computing to a totally different level. For better, or for worse...
You could listen to the audio in the recorder, but if you wanted to change format you needed to use other program. However, the most amusing part with the audio recorder was that you could play it up backwards. It entertained me and my friends for hours
I did, there is a tiny tiny cable to connect from the cd/dvd drive. That carries the digital sound. Then the front jack on the cd/dvd drive will work properly.
Anthony and Linus are the real MVP's and I would love to see more of Anthony and Linus in going over the nostalgia of Windows 98 as they show the most excitement in all facets of the operating system. Thank you for the look back into the past.
Pro tip from a 90s kid: For sound recorder, if you press the record button when it's paused or while it's recording, it adds another minute of recording time from your current time. My friends thought I was a computer wizard when I showed them that.
And all this time I saved a one minute file then opened it back to get two minutes and so on to get enough time. 😅
When I showed someone that they can only write text in Paint when not zoomed in I was called a genius.
The fact that Virutal Sound Canvas was installed on that PC really makes things clear about the person who owned it.
installing the OTI drivers for my VLB grpahics card on my 485sx that was running windows 98 was simply life changing. computer was slow as hell, but that graphics quality was the best i'd ever seen until my friends ibm aptiva pentium 75.
The worst thing about this is that now I have Windows 11 with all its bells and whistles and cool modern features, but when I need to change some settings I still have to go into some obscure dark corner of the system that looks *exactly the same* as I remember it from Win98. Like do you need to change some network adapter settings? Here we go, let's go through the Win11 interface, pass through the remnants of "Modern" UI into the XP-looking control panel and happily into the ancient setting window to change your default gateway. There are PC icons from all eras of Windows spread around the Windows 11 settings like easter eggs. The damn copy/paste progress window when copying from an attached device still has the Vista design. 😀
nothing is better, exept for grandma
Windows 7 was the best windows, it was fast and very user friendly.
Windows Vista was the best windows...if you had the right machine to run it. I believe that's the OS that introduced most of the modern changes, but it was a resource hog and had some bugs to go with it. They cleaned it up and rebranded it as Windows 7.
@@stevensteven3417
Best Windows was:
-- Windows 98 (For Customizations, Extra Features, & Control)
-- Windows 7 (For Performance & Optimization Quality)
-- Windows 10 (For Graphix Quality)
Windows 11 (For Mobile & Anti-Human Friendly)
--- It's way down here, because it's Forcefully Regulated Poorly, lOl
@@rasmasyean
"Some" bugs? I'd get locked out of using the task bar on a regular basis.
And I could have done without "modern changes" like removing the friggin "Play" button (!) in Sound Recorder (and only allowing files to be saved as WMA, because who uses regular, uncompressed wave files, right?).
I heckin love Anthony man.
He's such a wealth of information and always a wonderful presenter.
is that the tall guy? does he have a yt channel?
@@RileyBanksWho No, Anthony is the guy who is old enough to have seriously used 98 back in the day.
@@IsmailofeRegime yeyeah thats who I meant
yeah the audio jack on the front of the CD rom was independent of the PC, if you had the play buttons etc on the drive, you could just plug some speakers into it and have a CD audio system, like we did in the workshop. it wasn't until like 98 OSR2 that you could do digital audio down the 40 pin IDE cable.
Some of the things Linus was looking for needed to be installed from the Win98 disc. If you knew how, you could have it all set up without a CD being required.
The WIn 98 CD was bootable.
Love how knowledgeable Anthony is he makes great content always
Yeah, i think he is what we use to call "the computer guru". LoL!
About the "I know this" scene from Jurassic Park: The "Unix system" she was using was Irix. Looked fictional, was real, although the 3D file manager was very much optional. I once used a SPECT scanner whose original control box had it.
It's also the OS on SGI computers, which were common in the film industry at the time.
Yea. TH-cam randomly recommended me some videos about it and written media said that thing wasn't real back then altough it was.
I was a Linux consultant back in the day, my first client had an SGI system running Irix as well as a few linux systems.
Yeah
You can tell they were really proud of their 3D capabilities so they made that fancy-ass 3D UI lol
I’m actually working with Irix 6.5.30 which will always be the Unix of choice (though HP-UX is a close second). All hail 4WDM
The file manager they used in the movie was called fsn, and somebody made a version for Linux called fsv
It was indeed a Unix system
been playing with nearly all MS since dos up until now 2023 and with all other OS other than windows. Love playing around with all of 'em
My first operating system was "Geos" for the Commodore 64C, then windows 3.1, but there was still a lot of software on the market that needed to run directly on DOS. Its all just fuzzy memories now, but I remember vaguely Word Perfect 5.0 running on DOS I think.
Anthony understanding the full background that lead to reasons for things in the OS is really calming to me. It shows a fuller understanding of Computing history from the late '90s up into the 2000s which was right around the time my earliest memories of computers were formed.
Anthony: "I can't right click the taskbar to get task manager"
Microsoft: "Just wait until you see Windows 11"
you can right click the start button tho so it doesnt make a difference really
@@Romi969 I mean true but it still is a change to those who have it in muscle memory, and tbh was unnecessary to remove it.
I'm terrified of Windows 11 but I have a feeling it's not like we can just wait it out like many people did from XP to Windows 7. The next one will just be worse, surely.
@@Jon-nz3dm Tbh W11 isn't that bad, sure there are a couple changes but overall its not as bad as something like Vista.
And to be honest if windows follows the good-bad-good-bad pattern they have had, I'm not too worried about it.
You could always switch to linux tbh
@@LarveyOfficial wouldn't be Windows 11 be the new bad based on the pattern?
Windows 98 is pure nostalgia for me ... I wish I could go back to the February of 2000 when I got my first computer with Windows 98 and explore the computer again for the first time lol
man, all that fun customization was one of the reasons I purged Windows 11 from all my devices and went full Linux... My desktop has windows that jiggle like jello when you move them, I've got a nifty vaporwave color scheme... for a while, closing my windows would incinerate them, but I switched it to a simple little scanline glitch-away effect. I've even seen someone on Reddit using CSS to turn the GNOME desktop environment into a Windows 7 look alike. The customization is insane.
8:17 That's why before you do your actual recording, you hit record - wait for it to finish - then hit record again. This extends the length of the file. Keep doing this process until it's long enough (say 10 minutes) for your desired recording. You can then save this file as your template. Open it up, do your recording of long content, then use "Save As" to create a new file that doesn't overwrite the template you created. This is how I created a huge library of "Ripped" music before you could even rip music.
To make this faster you can use the insert function to double the length of the file.
You actually could, just set "Line out" in audiodevices as a source.
Was way easier to make few second recording and then just keep clickin the slow down in edit and save.