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Post by fusefan on Feb 9, 2020 7:35:49 GMT 10
Anybody remember back in the 90s and early 2000s when people had only one computer in their house and they had to share with their parents/siblings/cousins ect? And remember how awesome it felt when you finally got a computer for yourself?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2020 8:01:20 GMT 10
I surely do. The family computer was an iMac, but my computer ended up being a Windows ME.
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Post by al on Feb 9, 2020 9:10:00 GMT 10
Tbh a lot of people only had one computer past 2010. That was part of the big deal about getting a texting phone, iPod touch, etc. You could talk to your friends or web browse without having to wait.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2020 15:30:20 GMT 10
Tbh a lot of people only had one computer past 2010. That was part of the big deal about getting a texting phone, iPod touch, etc. You could talk to your friends or web browse without having to wait. Yep, just one computer in my household until 2009 when me and my brother built a gaming PC with our own money.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Feb 9, 2020 19:26:54 GMT 10
Same situation with me. We only had the one desktop PC up until 2010, when my Mum bought a Toshiba laptop for herself and I received my own laptop for Christmas that same year. I never had to worry about sharing the computer with others since I grew up as an only child in a single-parent household. That being said, I only used to use the computer for up to 30 minutes a day at the most and being the information nerd that I am, it was mainly just to look things up on Wikipedia.  Edit: I've moved this to the Science & Technology sub-forum.
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Post by fusefan on Feb 10, 2020 5:45:50 GMT 10
Well, I got my own computer in 2004. It seemed like everyone was getting their own desktops and laptops as they became more affordable in the mid 2000s. I guess I need to stop assuming everyone has had the same experiences as me...😅
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2020 16:11:51 GMT 10
Anybody remember back in the 90s and early 2000s when people had only one computer in their house and they had to share with their parents/siblings/cousins ect? And remember how awesome it felt when you finally got a computer for yourself? The family computers I remember. 1. Commodore 64 until 1991 2. Pal 386SX (8MHz, 1MB RAM, 40MB hard drive, Windows 3.1) from 1991-1996 3. Packard Bell Pentium (75MHz, 1.2GB hard drive, 8MB RAM, Windows 95) from 1996 through 2000 4. Touch Pentium II inherited from my aunt (233MHz, 4GB hard drive, 64MB RAM, Windows 98) from 2000 through 2003. Growing up, I would always get the old computer when my parents would buy a new one. When I was 17 I finally bought a new one for myself and then my dad made me put it in the living room so it could be the family computer. It pissed me off royally, since I paid for it with my own money. I remember getting in big fights with my dad around 2004ish over wanting high speed Internet, since they insisted that dial-up was good enough. In 2005 I finally got cable modem. Dial-up was horrible where I lived and would never connect at anything above 26.4 kbps regardless of whether or not it was a 56k modem.
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Post by karlpalaka on Feb 11, 2020 6:00:13 GMT 10
Our first computer was a CRT desktop around fall 2002, and it was Windows XP. We were stuck with that until my dad brought home a laptop around late 2005-early 2006, but that was just for work. I had my own laptop in late 2012 and it was Windows 8. We never had dialup. We first had internet access, and it was broadband around when my dad brought home a laptop.
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Post by al on Feb 12, 2020 10:16:29 GMT 10
My family won a laptop in a raffle in late 04, maybe 05. The thing was so slow and crappy it was barely worth using. Seemed cool af though lmao.
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Post by fusefan on Feb 12, 2020 14:48:29 GMT 10
Some family computers I remember...
I have vague memories of a Windows 3.1 machine pre-1995
Some sort of Packard Bell desktop with Windows 95 1995-1999
Toshiba Desktop - (lots of good memories with this one) with Windows 98 1999-2004
Compaq Desktop- used this from April 2004 until I got my very own computer in July 2004 (also a Compaq). This was my first Windows XP machine.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2020 5:36:46 GMT 10
I just remembered I had a shitty Acer laptop for school in 2005. But it was heavy, insanely slow and had 20GB of storage– I preferred to use the home computer.
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