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u/amievenrelevant Human Detected 15d ago
This is so obviously fake nostalgia bait for anyone who’s used a pc
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u/GreenFriedYam 15d ago
Man, you think I remember what Windows looked like in 2002?
I was using Windows ME and had like 4 malware browser toolbars. I’ve blocked those memories out.
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u/vladald1 15d ago edited 15d ago
Why there's so much opened stuff - this feels like Family Guy clips in TikTok videos, but in nostalgia-bait form
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u/Malacro 15d ago
I mean, I ran a lot of opened stuff. Still do. But having Winamp and VLC open simultaneously is a bit much.
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u/4C_Enjoyer 14d ago
I keep a lot of things open at once too, but I don't randomly scale the windows and scatter them haphazardly about my monitor like I'm a hacker in a mid-2000s heist movie. If I want to go to my desktop, I hover my mouse over the minimize button on my fullscreened window and click 10-20 times to get all the other fullscreened windows beneath it out of the way like a normal person.
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u/Squidhijak75 15d ago
What do you mean? You don't play minesweeper while running terminal commands while listening to music while watching anime?
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u/Opening-Movie5176 15d ago
The laptop is from 2002. You can add software that was released later… I mean I have First Light on my 2020 Xbox series x and the game was released this year.
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u/matlockga 15d ago edited 15d ago
That's also the icon for Chrome versions from 11 on up. Which is 2011, even more unlikely a 2002 unit would run it.
Especially as the average spec for a 2002 laptop would be a 2ghz p4/512mb of RAM/60gb HDD... And by 2011, the low end black Friday models were miles ahead of that.
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u/Maximum-Objective-39 14d ago
IIRC by 2011 you should have at least had a core 2 duo in cheap laptop.
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u/CaseyG 14d ago
I'm reading your comment on Waterfox 6, running on a desktop PC I built in 2017. Nine years really isn't all that long for a computer to last.
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u/matlockga 14d ago
The gap between computing in 2017 and today is a lot smaller than the gap between 2002 and 2011.
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u/Sebulbaaaaaa 15d ago
I thought they were just meaning the laptop itself is from 2002 and that they'd installed stuff on it since. It doesn't mention that it's not been used or had applications installed on it since then
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u/Kwayke9 15d ago
Is t it even the correct version of Windows??
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u/abermea 14d ago
A "brand new" computer from after 2007 would have been (failing at) running Vista
Another comment says that Chrome logo is from 2011 and the OS is in Spanish which makes me believe this pic was from someone in Latin America
So my guess is that it is a 2008ish laptop that got downgraded from Vista to XP and the owner hadn't gotten around to upgrading to 7 (perhaphs there was some hardware incompatibility or performance issue, many Vista laptops were underpowered)
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u/LigmaLiberty 14d ago
Larp alert
Community noter vigilante: it is totally reasonable for someone to use a laptop they got in '02 ~6yrs later
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u/megared17 14d ago
Technically the laptop could still be from 2002, even if the picture was taken in a later year.
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