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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I had a buddy who claimed his uncle worked at Microsoft. His uncle had given him the new Windows version called "Chicago" and I was all like "That name ain't Windows 4.0, gettouttahere!"

Turns out he did have an uncle who worked at Microsoft who fed him beta versions of W95 to get an idiot's point of view. I doubt that shit would fly today, preview versions would be leaked like military secrets on the Warthunder forums!

So when another buddy claimed he had an uncle who worked at Nintendo...

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    The font is off.

    Fixed, sorry about that.this is the first one i posted, which i found via image search; the new one is a screenshot i just took of this emulator.
    spoiler also

    hello fellow kids meme saying "fellow windows95 users" with the wrong-font-recreation of the image i'd originally posted :::

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To this day, I have the habit of never turning it off with the power button. I was told off for doing it when I was younger despite the computers being xp and perfectly fine to turn off with a power button

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Why does this feel so liminal?

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I miss having a "fuck you die" switch. As an old supervisor used to say,"Fuck me? No no no no fuck YOOOOU!"

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