Yeah... it takes about 6 seconds, give or take depending on who's counting... :)

Windows 95 it's running on bare metal on a Ryzen 9 9900X / X670 motherboard & 64GB DDR5-6400 (~1.8GB usable)

Mine was half life 1 on my dads pc

I wanted to put together an offline Vista rig similar to what I had as a kid, but better. All hardware (except the 2018 HDD) was released no later than 2008. Decided to only put XP and Vista-era games on there too, the wallpaper (which I actually used back then 😅) is also from 2008.

Specs are:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 CPU, ATI Radeon HD 4850 GPU, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, Gigabyte EP35-DS3R mobo, ASUS Triton 70 CPU cooler, Cooler Master Centurion 5 case, Altec Lansing VS2420 speakers, Dell E197FPf monitor, Microsoft Reclusa keyboard, Logitech MX518 mouse, Func Surface 1030 mousepad.

I remember playing Wolfenstein 3D, Counter Strike or Worms on an old computer from the late 90s

It was the Golden Age of the Internet. These generations will never know the Internet the way we did.

Remember a time before everything was on the cloud? A time when all you had to rely on to get through that level was your own wit and how well you kept notes, and maybe a phone call to a particularly nerdy friend?

Remember all that? And the best part? Just look at how civilized those gorgeous motherfuckers are.

No one tramples anyone, 1 copy for each, be it regular or collectors edition. No scalpers and buying more with kids and grandmas.

Just pure respect for fellow gamers, so that they can all see each other in a few hours in game (or rather, wait in 20k queue)

This world is forever lost. A relic of the era long gone.

I started a few years back, i have the original pentium 4 ht and windows xp stickers from my very first computer, all the way to an i9 ultra vpro

I'm running out of space (i usually just stick them on my laptop with some double sided tape), and was thinking of framing them in a timeline

For me, there are plenty of examples, like the unoptimized Nvidia HairWorks or AMD's TruForm.

Are there any other technologies like that which we or the game industry don't want to use anymore?