Screenshot History of Windows

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Screenshot History of Windows

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 20, 2003 @07:15PM from the format-c: dept.

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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A crowd Pleaser by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-20 19:24 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

You know who you are!
1. Re:A crowd Pleaser by NewbieProgrammerMan · 2003-03-20 19:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Wow, people manage to get to their 4th year (of anything that requires even incidental use of Windows) without developing an I - must - press - Ctrl-S - every - 15 - seconds reflex?
  
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2. Re:A crowd Pleaser by BWJones · 2003-03-20 19:32 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  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.
  
  Yeah, it went beep beep bee...... Oh, Never mind. I've switched already.
  
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3. Re:A crowd Pleaser by BWJones · 2003-03-20 19:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  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.
  
  Seriously though, I remember working on our Token-Ring (or whatever it was) equipped early Wintel based systems at the library on papers (before I bought my first Macintosh), and someone would yell, "MY Computer crashed!". And then everyone would frantically be saving their files to disk before the crash propegated itself through the network systematically crashing everyone's computer. The entire network would then have to be rebooted and God help the poor soul who had submitted his paper to the print que without saving it.
  
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4. Re:A crowd Pleaser by PunchMonkey · 2003-03-21 00:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'd never trust my computers on a Tolkien Ring... too many systems turning evil, talking about the precious.... blech.
  
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NonBloated by questamor · 2003-03-20 19:27 · Score: 5, Funny

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?
heh. slashdotted already by devlogic · 2003-03-20 19:33 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
from the article by smylie · 2003-03-20 19:40 · Score: 5, Funny

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 . . .
Most popular app by mabu · 2003-03-20 19:54 · Score: 5, Funny

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)
Burned-in pattern by SgtChaireBourne · 2003-03-20 20:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Wow, people manage to get to their 4th year (of anything that requires even incidental use of Windows) without developing an I - must - press - Ctrl-S - every - 15 - seconds reflex?
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.

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Can someone post the keygen for Windows 1.0? PLZ by teamhasnoi · 2003-03-20 20:09 · Score: 4, Funny

Oh wait, that *is* Windows 1.0.
Ah, the days before bloat.
Re:The lies prepetuated by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-20 20:09 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
this is like one of those TV flashbacks by tankdilla · 2003-03-20 20:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Seeing the old Windows 3.10 startup screen brought me back to when I got my first computer, and the Windows 3.1 splash screen booted up. It was Christmas morning and I was a young lad. This was a really big thrill, being the first kid on the block with a computer. After the splash screen, there was some setup screen for some program that was preinstalled. After filling in the information, I clicked the Next button and waited for more magic to happen. I waited...and waited....and waited....then my father pushed ctrl+alt+del, and up pops my very first blue screen of death! It rudely told me it was busy and commenced to spit floppy disks out of the disk drive at me. I went to bed crying and terrified of the computer, and never touched another computer again after that.
the end.
just kidding, actually my father reinstalled the system, and eventually we got it working.

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Re:Progression by mccalli · 2003-03-20 21:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Hammers haven't changed much since the days of Thor, although they've evolved a bit.
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...
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Re:Progression by miffo.swe · 2003-03-20 22:13 · Score: 4, Funny

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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/. anti-Windows bigotry? by Malc · 2003-03-20 23:55 · Score: 4, Funny

"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!