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Screenshot History of Windows
jobugeek writes "Neowin has an article that shows the progression of Microsoft Windows from pre-windows 1.0 through the 2003 server. For those of you who have used all of them, I'm sorry."
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You don't appreciate how ugly the standard Windows colors are without this kind of perspective.
What they need is a history of windows blue screens....and photos of frustrated 4th year students who lose 3 hours worth of work, 2 hours before there final papers are due.
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Hey, at least the bloat hadn't yet set in. I have a few versions of Windows archived away here just because they don't take up too much room.
Win 1.0 is a 244k zip file.
Win 2.0 really went overkill and that's where the bloat set in I'm afraid. 667kb. What do people need all that for anyway?
Ignoring the fact I made this (mod it down if that's a problem - I don't mind) I think they missed one of the screen shots of early windows -
:D
A never released version of windows*
*of maybe it was - you decide
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"For those of you who have used all of them, I'm sorry." Has it ever dawned to you that some people actually like using Windows??? Not everyone is a Microsoft bashing Linux freak like you Michael.
Funny, from these pictures, I can't tell the difference between 1.0 to 2003.
22 comments on the story, and the site is already experiencing the full force of the /. effect. I wonder what OS that server's running? Oh. Well, that blows my theory out of the water.
You know, this was a lot funnier BEFORE I went to netcraft.
I was using OS/2 during that whole sordid Windows thing. Sure I've seen Windows, but I never inhaled. I never saw the point in Windows; still don't. I'll admit to exchanging blow jobs with some of my buddies when I was 14, but I'll never admit to using any MS product except NT4 at work ( unplesent duty, that).
In regards to windows 1.0:
It took 55 programmers one year to develop this program.
And 500 slashdotters 20 minutes to overload neowin's server looking at screenshots of an OS we all supposedly loath . . .
I think it's quite telling that for several years the biggest-selling and most popular application for Windows was what?
A screen saver! (After Dark)
Sure. Take a square. Make it just a tad darker than sky blue. Now put a grey bar at the bottom, with a crappy logo on the left and the word Start. (remember, you have to Start before you can Shut Down)
You will also notice a funny-looking lower-case 'e' somewhere. This is special software for your computer. Very special. Time-warp forward about three months. The blue square is now an annoying set of green tiles with gold trim, or a wierdly-distorted picture of someone's wife and kids. But it doesn't really matter because just about all you can see are random icons scattered haphazardly all over the place. Most of them came as a result of the funny 'e' software, and they are named things like "pics.scr" and "Brittney_SPears.mp3.exe. None of them do anything when you click on them, so you naturally download another to see if you can make that one work, too. But I digress...
Pretty much, that's the look of the thing after 3.1, at least until XP. To get a picture of XP in your head, you first have to be familiar with the gumdrop look of Mac OS X, which came before XP. Then, while holding the OS X desktop in your mind, send in some Tellytubbies, and have them run around, say gibberish, point to their belly buttons, and while they're at it, customize the desktop and control buttons very slightly to suit their own, um, needs. That's Windows XP, in a nutshell.
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I haven't used MS-Windows/MS-Office in years and I still have the reflex to hit Ctrl-S at the end of each sentence or any time I pause for a moment while typing.
Usually, I catch it in time to abstract it to "Save" and use the correct short cut. But being a reflex it unfortunately still kicks in sometimes as Ctrl-S ... even in Bash or vi.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
Ah, the days before bloat.
Nope, sorry. Windows 9x is still DOS with a quick switch over to the graphical shell.
It's a 32-bit patch to a 16-bit extension to an 8-bit operating system originally written for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
I mean, really. It was supposed to be a revolutionary interface!
the end.
just kidding, actually my father reinstalled the system, and eventually we got it working.
-Look lively. LOOK LIVELY!!! --Mr. Shmallow
Nonsense. Hammers aren't a bit like they were in Thor's day. Thor's hammer was able to fly and respond to commands, whereas all today's junk can do is hit things.
Pah. They don't make 'em like they used to...
Cheers,
Ian
There's been no real revolution since win95... just evolution.
;-)
Yes, and as we all know Evolution is a Linux application
Heh!
You have obviuosly never ever used a pneumatic hammer with 100 nail magazine!
I used one when i built my house and it saved me both thumbs and half the time.
Maybe windows is the (sigh, spelling sucks) equivalent (did i get that right?) of an old hammer and the rest of us is waiting and working towards the pneumatic hammer?
(then again i have rarely seen a hammer fail as often as windows. Come to think of it, Microsoft is to windows what a hammer is to glass!
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Novell was an evil mistress back than, it was like the mature lady down the street propogating herpes to every yound lad willing and able.
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Also note on the Windows Server 2003 page they talk about the release like it already happened. They say it was release on 24 April 2003. Do they have a time machine? It's still March here. They also say that Server 2003 was the best MS OS ever. How can they know?
"For those of you who have used all of them, I'm sorry."
Errr, why? Not half as sorry as I feel for those who've used X11 since the beginning. Ever got stuck with TWM or FVMW (feeble virtual window manager) or OpenLook? They give me the shudders just thinking of them! FVWM even had a Win95 look on my Slackware distro back in the mid-90's. The difference between them is that you're increasingly unlikely to see older Windows UIs, yet the crap old X11 ones are still active today. My XFree86 under Windows/Cygwin comes with TWM, and I had to suffer TWM on my Linux box the other day when I was compiling a newer version of KDE. Ugh!
Here's a fun game to play - think of all the aftermarket 'fixes' for Winblow$ and the marketing metaphore. For example:
1) First Aid - Windows is a sick person hemorraging blood and needs 'first aid' while waiting for the 'doctor' or ambulance. It is also succeptible to 'viruses' and diseases. Adherents to this metaphone often say, "My computer is sick!"
2) Oil Change - Windows is an automobile that need regular perodic 'maintenance', as if there were metal parts in there rubbing together and need lubricant. They also often need a cheap muffler, tire rotation, etc. See Also "Tune Up". Adherents to this metaphone say their computer is "In the shop" being repaired, or "Hey Jim! Put 'er up on the rack again - the transmission's still acting up!".
3) Power Tools - Windows is a decrepit old house that just needs a little 'fixing up' and 'sweat equity' to fix the drafty windows, broken stair steps, etc. This metaphore suggests a 'do it yourself' person more willing to tinker with their system than the Sick Human or Broken Automobile metaphore, who must call a Dr. or mechanic. But sometimes users of 'power tools' just make things worse and have to call in a 'contractor' to reinstall a whole new house.
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Blue screen of birth
Blue screen of death
Uh, it might not be a good idea to contradict someone holding that big of a hammer...
which could be very harmful
cut - save - crash
omg where's my work, it was there when I saved it
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Yeah, but it's a non-flyer so far...
Cheers,
Ian