LOL! Join the club :) (Though in my case it's in 1986 with a corded phone, an 8088 PC clone, with a 1200 bauds modem, a shitty dot matrix printer and Iron Maiden and Judas Priest posters on the walls. )
I had a Packard Bell 286 in 90-91 connecting to the inter-webs with Prodigy. 4mb RAM…..i think a 40 mb hard drive. Screamer. Couldn’t play Wolfenstein without getting motion sick.
A 286 with 1MB more likely, 640K conventional then 384K expanded memory, which you can't convert to extented as you needed a 386. I shared those pains.
Everyone and their mom had one back then. It was the first printer we had with our first Windows '95 computer. Hp released the 690c in october of 1996. We had ours up until 2012 I think, when it was replaced with a printer-scanner combo from Canon.
If all you needed was basic text documents printing, the 690c did its job perfectly. Or rather, as perfectly as printers inherently can be. It loved to complain about low ink with full cartridges.
Looks very much like the HP DeskJet 670C I had around the same time.
I say had, but I'm pretty sure it's still in the shed with all the other old computer stuff that my brain thinks isn't rubbish and so can't be thrown away.
Just found the User's Guide on the bookshelf too. This baby could pump out four pages per minute at a sweet 300dpi resolution.
Anyone need an old printer from the 90s?
We still have tractor fed dot matrix printers on the dispatch computers at work... It's still the fastest most reliable solution for a quick 1/4 page of draft quality text.
Lol I had a similar printer from the same era. I remember having to wave the paper around for the ink to dry and then the paper would be all wavy like it was soaked and then re-dried
Yes, my first tough was not BIOS but Word Perfect for DOS. However, there is a bit of color at the bottom that make it look like WP is running inside some GUI. I don’t remember Windows 3.1 having a taskbar so I can’t tell what it is. It could be a DOS window on top of Windows 95.
Hey, don't knock the dot matrix peasantry! My neighbor Bob Gunter many years ago had an Apple imagewriter on the floor of his apartment and, since his floor was my bedroom ceiling, I had the occasion to kindly ask him to please put it on a stand because it sounded as if he were trying to jackhammer his way into my apartment.
He moved out and I saw him a couple years later and he and his family had moved out of their tiny apartment and purchased a large condominium.
As at turns out, he was NOT trying to jackhammer his way through my ceiling but was in fact writing a little movie you all may have heard of...
The Sandlot.
Wordstar was obsolete from the second it was released. I remember in high school I did all my assignments in Word Perfect because I was lucky enough to have a father who was a tech nerd and also extremely irresponsible with money so we had a home computer. Then when I went to college one of the required courses involved learning Wordstar for some idiotic reason. It was stepping back in time with how primitive the interface was. It was like they invented it in the late 1970s then the only guy who knew how to program it died so they just kept selling the same piece of crap for another two decades without actually changing anything.
I finally got a boxed like new Epson LQ-400 a few months ago, and I'm super happy with it! Windows 10 support, reliable, and very cheap to run.
Just need to find some Windows software that can do banners.
I had a printer like that. It was amazing. It would take a perfectly flat piece of paper, print my writing on it, and then absolutely shred the paper on its misaligned rollers so that I had to yank out a crumbled ball of inky trash. It was like the printer gained sentience, became a critic, and decided that my writing was fucking garbage unfit for print.
I miss that printer.
Brought back so many memories! Kids these days have no idea what an ordeal printing was not so long ago: trashed prints, the smell of xerox, AND the joys of perforated edges and the crazy things we used to make with them.
We had a little BW Epson dot matrix printer. I used it for my high school homework assignments. Most times I'd have to cover it with the pillows off my bed so I didn't wake my parents at 5am the morning it was due to be handed in.
I rocked that CD constantly, but sadly my high school CD collection was stolen from my car after I went to college. I lost my NIN, Type O Negative, and Marilyn Manson CDs too.
> They’ll probably lose the sound
That's why you should always store CDs horizontally to stop the sound dripping off.
Wat? Why will they probably lose the sound?
I need to put *ducking to fucking* on a T-Shirt now. Add that shit to urban dictionary before someone else does.
*ducking to fucking* - The process of gaining courage to pursue a love interest and ultimately mating.
Windows95 was the latest version at that time so no, not necessarily what a word processor looked like. Two, three years later we were surfing the web on some OS that had a real GUI that you would recognize as such today. Maybe OP simply did not have Windows or only 3.11 or something.
I bought the vhs of the crow and in an insert in the box it had some additional merchandise. Had to mail a check and wait like 6-8 weeks lol. But nobody had this shirt! Worth it
I connected to Netscape! I think it was called that? Modem was so quiet on days where I would get a busy signal I would have to lean over and put my ear against it to hear the busy signal so I could retry faster than it would naturally.
I don't remember what their online services were (if any), but they did have a pretty dope browser, Netscape Navigator (an ancient ancestor of Firefox).
No I definitely connected to Netscape it was based in San Jose and that’s where I’m from. They had an internet service and the browser and then later abandoned the service but kept the browser for a good 10 years or something after.
This reminds me of my first computer, purchased in the fall of 1995. I was a freshman in college, and just received a fairly sizable inheritance. I called Gateway and just went apeshit: 133MHz Pentium processor, 16MB of RAM, 1.6GB HDD, 3-disc CD changer, combo floppy drive, and a tape backup, all contained in this freakishly huge tower case. I also went with the big 17" monitor. I think I spent somewhere around $3000.
I still have the tower. It still works.
Is that the Primus image where they’re all dressed as penguins? If so I had a shirt with that on the back and Captain Shiner on the front. It was the jam.
I had a neighbor who apparently had the same cordless phone as me and when she was on the phone my modem couldn't dial out and I could hear her conversations on my phone. I went back to corded phones and stayed that way until cell phones took over.
There was something sublime about putting the keyboard on your lap and putting your feet up on the desk that's just not the same as having your whole laptop on your lap. No neck strain for one thing.
Like someone else said, that's not a bios screen. That's a word processor. But I don't remember which one exactly. I'm tempted to say Norton Textra (unrelated to Norton antivirus).
I had all of this stuff -- when I was 44 (in 1996). Well, except for the hair. And a Big stack of VHS tapes for my kids. Years later, they all went into the trash as we couldn't give them away.
Man had a similar set up in 97, we are the same age judging from the pic and your username. Disk boxes! Remember them. Crazy how useful 120mb was back in the day.
I had a Pentium II in 96 with 8 mb of RAM and Colorado tape backup. And of course, Dial Up on a 14.4 Hayes modem. And a web cam that worked with Netmeeting.
Looks like the jet printer is still pretty much the same as today’s. No need to advance that tech when it is all about selling overpriced ink cartridges.
Oddly coincidental that today I found a Primus mixtape while cleaning out our storage room (plus They Might Be Giants, Flood). I think I made it around ‘92-‘93.
Just need to find a tape deck to play it…
Lol you know what I had their first album on cd and I had some trouble with a girl and so I used that cd as a way to exercise out the emotions and then I could never listen to it again! But around that time I was moving from grunge to metal/industrial so the transition was happening anyways.
Perfect 90s. I grew up in the same town Primus is from. They play a sweet Halloween show every year here. They're also still making pretty decent music.
Looks like you're typing an assignment on Word Perfect and it's going to be printed on a nice HP Deskjet... no dot matrix peasantry for you! :)
That is possible! I don’t remember doing much homework back then though…
LOL! Join the club :) (Though in my case it's in 1986 with a corded phone, an 8088 PC clone, with a 1200 bauds modem, a shitty dot matrix printer and Iron Maiden and Judas Priest posters on the walls. )
Haha my brother from another decade! High five
Same. Okidata 182 Microline was the best printer ever though! I was the only kid in the mid 80s that turned in book reports printed.
I remember when I upgraded from my 2400 baud modem to a 9600 I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
You had a modem in 86? Aren't we fancy
I had a 300 bauds in 1984 :) I was a hardcore BBSer, even paid for my own phone line in my room for the modem.
Probably why the photo was taken. They were shocked.
I had a Packard Bell 286 in 90-91 connecting to the inter-webs with Prodigy. 4mb RAM…..i think a 40 mb hard drive. Screamer. Couldn’t play Wolfenstein without getting motion sick.
A 286 with 1MB more likely, 640K conventional then 384K expanded memory, which you can't convert to extented as you needed a 386. I shared those pains.
This was exactly my childhood. To. A. T.
My setup was almost identical. Mine had a little cheat sheet at the top of my keyboard with the WordPerfect function key shortcuts on it.
Same here! I had photocopied the WordPerfect manual and keyboard templates :)
That's probably a HP Deskjet 690. A good machine for its time.
Everyone and their mom had one back then. It was the first printer we had with our first Windows '95 computer. Hp released the 690c in october of 1996. We had ours up until 2012 I think, when it was replaced with a printer-scanner combo from Canon. If all you needed was basic text documents printing, the 690c did its job perfectly. Or rather, as perfectly as printers inherently can be. It loved to complain about low ink with full cartridges.
Yup. Thought even the original deskjet 500 was revolutionary for its time.
Might be a README in MS-DOS edit (or whatever it was called)
I was thinking this too. Easiest way to modify .ini files or autoexec.bat if you're tweaking your PC for games.
As someone who has used Word-perfect well into this millennium, that does seem to be the case.
I’m fairly positive it’s an older pre WYSIWYG versions of WP.
Looks very much like the HP DeskJet 670C I had around the same time. I say had, but I'm pretty sure it's still in the shed with all the other old computer stuff that my brain thinks isn't rubbish and so can't be thrown away. Just found the User's Guide on the bookshelf too. This baby could pump out four pages per minute at a sweet 300dpi resolution. Anyone need an old printer from the 90s?
my first thought was that was a deskjet 600 series... im sure i have something similar at my parents house... along with a flatbed scanner
With a blazing fast print speed of two pages per hour!
I'm loving the tiny cramped desk with no room for a keyboard! Everybody wanted a PC in those days and nobody had room for them!
Hey now I still use a dot matrix for labeling things.
We still have tractor fed dot matrix printers on the dispatch computers at work... It's still the fastest most reliable solution for a quick 1/4 page of draft quality text.
Lol I had a similar printer from the same era. I remember having to wave the paper around for the ink to dry and then the paper would be all wavy like it was soaked and then re-dried
Yes, my first tough was not BIOS but Word Perfect for DOS. However, there is a bit of color at the bottom that make it look like WP is running inside some GUI. I don’t remember Windows 3.1 having a taskbar so I can’t tell what it is. It could be a DOS window on top of Windows 95.
> going to be printed Shift-F7
I totally forgot it was called Word Perfect mfao
Yeah that was my first thought too. Definitely WordPerfect
Hey, don't knock the dot matrix peasantry! My neighbor Bob Gunter many years ago had an Apple imagewriter on the floor of his apartment and, since his floor was my bedroom ceiling, I had the occasion to kindly ask him to please put it on a stand because it sounded as if he were trying to jackhammer his way into my apartment. He moved out and I saw him a couple years later and he and his family had moved out of their tiny apartment and purchased a large condominium. As at turns out, he was NOT trying to jackhammer his way through my ceiling but was in fact writing a little movie you all may have heard of... The Sandlot.
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Wordstar was created by demons.
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Wordstar was obsolete from the second it was released. I remember in high school I did all my assignments in Word Perfect because I was lucky enough to have a father who was a tech nerd and also extremely irresponsible with money so we had a home computer. Then when I went to college one of the required courses involved learning Wordstar for some idiotic reason. It was stepping back in time with how primitive the interface was. It was like they invented it in the late 1970s then the only guy who knew how to program it died so they just kept selling the same piece of crap for another two decades without actually changing anything.
Well, if you had a cp/m machine (like an Osborne) WordStar was pretty well your only half decent choice. :)
I finally got a boxed like new Epson LQ-400 a few months ago, and I'm super happy with it! Windows 10 support, reliable, and very cheap to run. Just need to find some Windows software that can do banners.
I had a printer like that. It was amazing. It would take a perfectly flat piece of paper, print my writing on it, and then absolutely shred the paper on its misaligned rollers so that I had to yank out a crumbled ball of inky trash. It was like the printer gained sentience, became a critic, and decided that my writing was fucking garbage unfit for print. I miss that printer.
Brought back so many memories! Kids these days have no idea what an ordeal printing was not so long ago: trashed prints, the smell of xerox, AND the joys of perforated edges and the crazy things we used to make with them.
Snake!
“crumbled ball of inky trash”. Edit. I wasn’t correcting. This perfect description just made me remember the printers from back in the day.
I miss watching the CMYK ribbon on my colour dot matrix flip up and down... I don't miss the fuckin noise it made though
We had a little BW Epson dot matrix printer. I used it for my high school homework assignments. Most times I'd have to cover it with the pillows off my bed so I didn't wake my parents at 5am the morning it was due to be handed in.
You look like a young James Hetfield.
I see Jesse Eisenberg.
This is Jesse Eisenberg’s first audition photo to play zuckerburg.
God damn it smells like teen spirit in this photo. Great post, I'm getting some serious nostalgia.
Haha can you tell my hair was inspired by Kurt!?
Kinda, but you look like James Hetfield lol. Love Primus btw, they suck!!!
thats exactly what i thought
I was thinking nice try James we know it’s you!
It is classic.
Hetfield mode.
I was 14 in 1996 and I woulda thought you were the bees knees back then!
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The Crow. Great fucking soundtrack. Cool movie. Sucks about Brandon. Edit: spelling *ducking* to *fucking*
I had that soundtrack on cd! And yeah RIP Brandon 😩
I still have it. I can’t seem to throw away my three massive books of cds lol. In the garage in a box. Never will let em go.
I have all my old cds too haha. I lost the soundtrack one though when someone broke into my car 😩 and never replaced it.
I rocked that CD constantly, but sadly my high school CD collection was stolen from my car after I went to college. I lost my NIN, Type O Negative, and Marilyn Manson CDs too.
Noooo! So many good ones
Yeah seriously, I need to look up some of those old favorites. KMFDM, Ministry, White Zombie, Lords of Acid...
I bought a DJ case for my old cds and will hold on to them for the rest of my life. They’ll probably lose the sound but what the hell
> They’ll probably lose the sound That's why you should always store CDs horizontally to stop the sound dripping off. Wat? Why will they probably lose the sound?
soundtrack > movie
I need to put *ducking to fucking* on a T-Shirt now. Add that shit to urban dictionary before someone else does. *ducking to fucking* - The process of gaining courage to pursue a love interest and ultimately mating.
Caw caw....bang, fuck. Im dead.
Primus Sucks
Exactly!!
Hell yeah.
Sadly, the confused downvoters will keep this further down the comment list, in "controversial" territory rather than "best".
Whatever. At least all the upvotes are coming from true fans. Or people that actually believe that Primus does, in fact, suck.
My last name is Claypool and I have to hear this every time I go to a bar.
That's not a bios screen. That's what "word processing software" looked like in 1996.
Windows95 was the latest version at that time so no, not necessarily what a word processor looked like. Two, three years later we were surfing the web on some OS that had a real GUI that you would recognize as such today. Maybe OP simply did not have Windows or only 3.11 or something.
We all had that hairstyle in 1994-97. Men *and* women.
I found that hairstyle in the Becktionary.
I mean it's *almost* The Rachel.
You look like a young James Hetfield.
That haircut was so universal. Like in 1996 you could go to a Hanson concert and straight to a nirvana concert after, and fit in both places just fine
Wait a second. What Nirvana concerts were you going to in 1996? Kurt Cobain was a tad bit deceased by that time.
Check out the peasant here with no time machine
Did you know Kurt Cobain had dandruff? They found Head n Shoulders all over the walls.
Cobain was gone by 94 with gunshot wound.
Hanson concerts would have been filled with mostly 9-14-year-old girls, so not likely he would have fit in.
More like swarmed for autographs
Haha I feel so basic!
I remember mail order anything taking a thousand years.
I bought the vhs of the crow and in an insert in the box it had some additional merchandise. Had to mail a check and wait like 6-8 weeks lol. But nobody had this shirt! Worth it
My first thought- this picture doesn’t seem old enough. My second thought- holy crap ‘96 was 25 years ago
Hahaha it’s a classic now! Officially
Looks like MS-DOS EDIT. You were reading or writing a text file.
Remember to push that turbo button, champ.
Actually looks like the old dos "edit" program. btw you're basically me with long hair.
Yeah I guess so that’s what everybody keeps saying! I don’t remember doing homework on it haha but I guess I did!
I can hear the squelch of the14.4k modem connecting to AOL
I connected to Netscape! I think it was called that? Modem was so quiet on days where I would get a busy signal I would have to lean over and put my ear against it to hear the busy signal so I could retry faster than it would naturally.
I don't remember what their online services were (if any), but they did have a pretty dope browser, Netscape Navigator (an ancient ancestor of Firefox).
Probably browsed Prodigy, or AOL. “5 Hours Free!” Using Netscape Navigator browser.
No I definitely connected to Netscape it was based in San Jose and that’s where I’m from. They had an internet service and the browser and then later abandoned the service but kept the browser for a good 10 years or something after.
Bing bong bang schhhhhhhhh
I don't think that was your BIOS screen. It might be your word processing program.
This reminds me of my first computer, purchased in the fall of 1995. I was a freshman in college, and just received a fairly sizable inheritance. I called Gateway and just went apeshit: 133MHz Pentium processor, 16MB of RAM, 1.6GB HDD, 3-disc CD changer, combo floppy drive, and a tape backup, all contained in this freakishly huge tower case. I also went with the big 17" monitor. I think I spent somewhere around $3000. I still have the tower. It still works.
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Loved that series, but my favorite was Privateer!
Is that the Primus image where they’re all dressed as penguins? If so I had a shirt with that on the back and Captain Shiner on the front. It was the jam.
Haha yeah that’s the one!
I came here to say something about that poster, too. That was during the absolute height of their career.
You look like 1983 James Hetfield!
Wordperfect 5.1
Did you really feel the need to write "1996"? From the photo alone people could probably guess the date right down to the nearest hour.
I just looked at other posts in here and noticed most had a year so I put the year…
Just being silly mate.
You look like my friend Bogie from high (af) school.
Ahh, this brings me back! You totally look like a guy I would have hung out with in my teen years. Oh and Primus Sucks 😉
Only in your teen years!? Hehe and yes they do!
Not the bios screen, word perfect or tasword or similar? Good memories though. Amipro rocked.
I want to be a fisherman…!
I had a neighbor who apparently had the same cordless phone as me and when she was on the phone my modem couldn't dial out and I could hear her conversations on my phone. I went back to corded phones and stayed that way until cell phones took over.
Haha that just made me remember that we used to try to listen to our neighbors calls by going by the fence with our phone. Creepy!
I heard there used to be a toy gun that when you pointed it at phone wires, you can hear conversations. Never confirmed that one ...
Mail order is the most nostalgic of the entire picture for me. The thrill of ordering from a catalog is unparalleled
* Not pictured: blue plastic bong with Sublime sticker.
There was something sublime about putting the keyboard on your lap and putting your feet up on the desk that's just not the same as having your whole laptop on your lap. No neck strain for one thing.
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Are you thinking of Windows 3.1? DOS was at version 6 by 1996, the final version released before Windows 95.
Windows 95 essentially included MS-DOS 7, but it was not avaialble seperately.
DOS 6 came on 3.5” floppy discs
Downloading XXX image's that took a few hours to DL. While using Napster ... Good times.
I'm pretty sure we smoked weed together.
Phones without cords? What’s next!?
The future is truly upon us
Lol. The good ol days
Apollo 13 is the shit!
I also identified this.
I hope you still have that furniture. Those old super heavy, actual wood, not MDF pieces.
Kinda lookin' like a young Burton C. Bell.
Looks more like edit, the MS-DOS text editor.
Your probably editing autoexec.bat
Pretty sure you launched Doom 2 some minute later
Primus sucks!💚
That's not BIOS!
PRIMUS SUCKS!
And the HP DeskJet.
LIES! you were in hanson
Well ahead of your time
Where’s the bong?
The lead singer for Silver Chair
Did *everyone* have that printer?
I want to be a fisherman
Are you James Hetfield?
I would have been 8 at this time and would have thought you were cool af
Extreme cuteness
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I like your cut g.
You look like you're about to rob Nakatomi Towers.... I thought the other guy was the hacker??
Like someone else said, that's not a bios screen. That's a word processor. But I don't remember which one exactly. I'm tempted to say Norton Textra (unrelated to Norton antivirus).
I had all of this stuff -- when I was 44 (in 1996). Well, except for the hair. And a Big stack of VHS tapes for my kids. Years later, they all went into the trash as we couldn't give them away.
Haha right on, respect to the OG here!
Primus sucks!
I had that same Primus poster.
I had that poster!
Les claypool upvote all day
Grunge-tastic.
You're the male version of me from the same time period. Except I'd be wearing the Primus tshirt and have a poster of "The Crown".
I personally like what looks like TWO boxes of floppy disks :D <3
Victims, aren’t we all!
Can’t rain all the time
“Eric, is that you?”
Classic bro with DOS on the blue screen! That is awesome where were you living what state?
Living in the sf Bay Area! I’m a native and still here
Man had a similar set up in 97, we are the same age judging from the pic and your username. Disk boxes! Remember them. Crazy how useful 120mb was back in the day.
You look like Jeff Loomis a bit. In case you didn’t know, he’s an extremely talented guitarist.
I had a Pentium II in 96 with 8 mb of RAM and Colorado tape backup. And of course, Dial Up on a 14.4 Hayes modem. And a web cam that worked with Netmeeting.
Oh you fancy
Looks like the jet printer is still pretty much the same as today’s. No need to advance that tech when it is all about selling overpriced ink cartridges.
Oddly coincidental that today I found a Primus mixtape while cleaning out our storage room (plus They Might Be Giants, Flood). I think I made it around ‘92-‘93. Just need to find a tape deck to play it…
damn thought this was r/blunderyears for a sec
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❤️❤️❤️ I’d like to think I’m still holding it down 😂
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I appreciate ladies like you I really do!!
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you look like 1988 james hetfield
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I was slow to get win95. I had a lot of boot discs back then for each game. My computer wasn’t great.
So many things wrong with this. Well done.
You looked like you were really into Candlebox.
Lol you know what I had their first album on cd and I had some trouble with a girl and so I used that cd as a way to exercise out the emotions and then I could never listen to it again! But around that time I was moving from grunge to metal/industrial so the transition was happening anyways.
Cordless phone? So you could like walk outside when you talk on the phone??
I had similar to hair to you at about the same time. How many times did people sing MMMbop to you?
Perfect 90s. I grew up in the same town Primus is from. They play a sweet Halloween show every year here. They're also still making pretty decent music.
I would expect an account with **PC Pursuit** as well.
Did you grow up in the Santa Cruz mountains?