1997 Computer Time Machine
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- In this video we're adding some multimedia to the Siemens computer, and are going to take trip down memory lane, visiting some 1996/1997 software.
If you like ICQ, RealPlayer, WinZip, Netscape, WinAmp, GoldWave, Total Commander then stay tuned !
Great chatting with you on ICQ! :P
The pleasure was all mine. Good thing digital identity theft wasn’t really a thing in the nineties :)
What was that popular spy virus? Everyone installed it intentionally; remember something about cd going in and out, and mouse or key bord got hijacked?
That was a thing in sweden, at least 😅 but identity theft no noyhing like that online 96,97...
@@andersmmvfc.8376 That reminds me of Elf Bowling and how fast that spread around in offices, a lot of people thought it was spyware since it was just a random exe.
@Amir Pourghoureiyan NETBUS i had to google 40 minutes to find it 😀
I had it for almost a year just for fun but we didn't think off safety that mutsh it was more fun :D
@@andersmmvfc.8376 Wasn´t that just called "cd eject" or something? I have fond memories from studying NT server. Me and some mates managed to get that "CD eject" in the Novell classmates login scripts. And as it happened, the "ping of death" was just surfacing. So when all was ready we nuked them and went for a coffee break where we could see their classroom through some windows. Pretty good entertainment when they started to login after beeing nuked. And yes, I´m Swedish...
I like seeing the old Netscape being shown. The first time that I really interacted with the Web was with Netscape back when I was at university. This new world was both exciting and confusing.
Although that was running on Windows NT 4.0 and we used Pegasus Mail for our email. An email client that I have never seen used anywhere else.
Ah, the days of walking down to the computer lab to see if I had any unread emails. Now, my phone interrupts whatever I am doing to tell me that I have unread emails. Progress.
Props to Fujitsu (who took over the computer division of Siemens after their partnership ended) for still having the drivers online for these.
Wow. So much nostalgia in one video...
6:20 I like how Windows 95 was actually able to tell when devices were conflicting, but never bothered to inform the user.
It also was able to detect EISA (and maybe ISA plug'n'play?) auto-config settings, but refused to try to change them- you had to go into the BIOS instead.
Love that Netscape Navigator icon. Forget how much artistry you’d find in those old icons.
This was a very cool look at the late 90s computer experience; I wonder what it must look like for people younger than 20yo.
One thing we will never be able to explain is the excitement to go online and being connected to the Internet. This felt so special and for most of us was something possible only for a limited time, due to costs of dial-up connections (or the simple need to do a phone call).
Absolutely looking forward for the retro-server Exchange video!
P.S. I never saw that creepy baby dance screensaver 😱
Amen to that bro, I remember having to ask my parents about if I could use one of their computers to surf the web for some specific reason sometimes, and it was always a time limit how long I could use it because it was so expensive to dial up. I have also tried to explain this to younger people and they just dont get it. Not surprising of course, this is probably like my parents trying to explain about the same phenomena from their childhood but then it was about making long distance phonecalls instead, witch to me has been a natural thing.
@@hellion9547 just tell them its an older method of internet access that is mostly used for remote areas where broadband is unavailable
it just looks inferior to the early 2010's with windows XP
sorry just had to have my cunt moment here
The fact one speaker is more yellow than the other truly adds to the 90s look
Brings back memories from elementary school, they had similar speakers there in the 90s.
I remember all the same stuff you have showed, I had a friend back in 1993 and we started a computer company. The 386 was all the rage back then and Win 3.1. I did the hardware and software side of the business and he did the sales. In those days we purchased all the components and assembled the computers from scratch, configuring the Motherboards for the different CPU's and installing different options for the clients. Then came the 486 and in 1995 I was able to get a beta copy of windows 95 before the public release. Alot of your videos bring back a lot of memories of those days. Mid 95 I went it alone and never looked back but am retired now as it got to much and the computer industry changed to fast for me to keep up. Do you remember some of the Win 95 Easter Eggs.?? I still reckon you could do more with an older PC than some of the stuff today.
It was nice reading your story. It made me remember my experience back then. I had my first pc in 94. Pentium 100 with windows 95. Then I saw on the news that windows 95 isn't even officially released. I was a high school student back then and started hooking up other students with pc to learn. None of them have seen win95 and a pentium 100 that time. They were all amazed. Then I started learning backwards to fully understand how windows 95 works. They taught me windows 3.1 and Dos 6. Installing new hardware with physically changing IRQs with jumpers. Funny enough, our PCs in the 90s are no match to our phones these days. Imagine how many pentium 100 with 4mb ram can fit in a snapdragon 888.
Ah yes, good old Plug 'n Pray as it was known in the beginning. OMG, I think I used everything you covered in this video back in the day! Thanks for the memory test! 🙂
"Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass" 😂
When you started talking about the "most well known screen saver" I was expecting Flying Toasters :) I must have missed dancing baby back in the day... I do remember being completely envious of my friend's new Pentium 166 Mhz with Plus! while I was stuck with the basic theme options on my P120. I think I ended up copying some of the background images over to my computer so I could have part of the Plus experience.
I too was expecting the flying toasters.
Me too!
ICQ was amazing, those sounds are so nostalgic.
ICQ Pool and chatting with Internet friends when it was still mostly used by nerdy folks, both female and male.
It was basically Signal/Telegram/Whatsapp/whatever before those were a thing.
Do I remember correctly ICQ had an update where you could chat with more than one person? Was like group chat but literally just multiple textboxes. Loved that program.
To really demonstrate what the 90's Internet looked like, Protoweb is uniquely suited to do that. It's a service that gives you access to a lot of restored classic 90's websites. There are Protoweb related videos up on CZcams, and their website has tutorials how to get set up with a networked retro computer, however you really only need a proxy server setting on the web browser and you're good to go.
Cool! I'll also take note of that.
This was such an exciting time to look back on! Computers and the Internet were pure magic... and I never saw the dancing baby screensaver either btw.
Man, it's awesome seeing where WinAmp came from in the early days. It had a long run!
It would be great to see how software development was done back in the day. Borland C++ springs to mind and any other tools responsible for the well known applications back then!
It involved a lot of waiting for a slow compiler and staring at a long, vague list of errors. Oh, and a lot of floppies.
I also have a PCD5-H here. Got it as a present from a friend. I've trimmed it up a bit over the years. Mine has 96 MB Ram, Pentium 75, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 PCI, Soundblaster 16, ISA network card, and a USB 2.0 \ SATA combo card. The system hard disk is a 32 GB SD memory card on the IDE bus and another 128 GB SATA hard disk. The device runs perfectly. Best regards, Chris
Total Commander is a very powerful Filemanager especially with some of the available plugins. acccessing *.iso files like archives, mass renaming files, running file operations in background while doing the next, packer plugins so you don't need winzip, 7zip or anything else and many many more. I use it on a daily basis.
I actually forgot it was called windows commander up to some point, I think there was some legal trouble.
Yes, it was due to legal problems by including "windows" in the name....
I have been using TC (WC) since 1998/99. It is the first thing that runs on my PC after boot. I used a couple of plugins before, but not even that anymore. I only link it to Notepad++ (for the editor) and IrfanView (for quick image views). I use it almost 100% by the keyboard, the mouse only for shortcuts. It's a bit of a legacy from previously using Norton Commander in MS-DOS.
I only use Windows Explorer when I have just installed Windows, to install TC (LOL!!!) and for a few additional things
and TC configured in "total awareness" "fast operation" mode
Oh WinAmp hits me so hard! I hope, they really invite me to the beta for the new version. I already filled a form for them. It was sooooooo great! Most of the other tools I saw here also were great, but WinAmp was the one which accompanied me from Windows 95 through Windows XP, so for around 12 years!
I still use WinAmp on rare occasion. I'd been hoping to see it become the first major internet video standard, but CZcams came along instead :/
Great with with a nice trip down memory lane. It is important for younger people to know where computers were at just 25 years ago. Maybe some will see this and develop a greater appreciation for what we have today, and it may inspire some to develop software with the better parts of what we had back then.
This was a really great nostalgia trip. Thanks for this!
ICQ was great back in the day, I still remember my number, and I also still use Winamp today.
Lots of great memories! I loved Winamp and built a giant mp3 collection which is still growing with lots of new file formats as well.
When I went to school, we had many of those Siemens Nixdorf machines in class rooms albeit slightly newer revisions sometimes and usually with Windows 98 SE rather than 95.
These PCs worked really well.
Solid machines, good processing speeds and plenty for Microsoft Office and the learning software we used at school.
Also the first time I believe I did something network related myself.
Yeah they worked well until you installed the obligatory antivirus software. That was what really slowed things down.
I do miss the internet of these days. Granted it was slow but web pages were simple. They would not track you, ask you to accept cookies, ask you to subscribe to newsletters or put advertisements over the content you actually wanted to see. Internet was this thing you could still do with older machines whereas nowadays internet usually is the thing that makes the fan in my laptop go nuts. Simpler times and so great to see it again!
Don't forget downloading porn one image at a time, and not the hundreds of streaming tube sites we have today. ; )
That ACDSee really came out of nowhere. What a rush of nostalgia. 😆
I bought my first computer in 1999; to save money I opted for the older operating system, W95. Was then perplexed to discover I had no USB ports. I was clueless back then, for on the hardware level they were indeed present, but just not visible (to me in my utterly noob state) in the software. I sold said computer & bought a whole new machine, only to see, when delivering the old box to its new owner, that two shiny bright USB ports were indeed staring me in the face from the I/O shield... I could have wept. 🙈
The mid 90’s really was the “Multimedia era” when multimedia was a big thing and a bit off a buzzword. For dutch speaking viewers, there’s also a funny sketch from Kooten en de Bie about multimedia in the 90’s. I remember realplayer as beeing one of these music players that tried to be more then just a music file player. It had it’s own format and it tried hard to compete with Quicktime and Windows mediaplayer. In the early 2000’s you had to have all three of them installed in order to view web video. Movie trailers where always in Quicktime format as far I can remember.
All the drivers found straight away, damn that is rare. Also the welcome message, I normally take the tick off to not appear again.
It's great to see you not only presenting games, but also other software (e-mail, chat, productivity, ...) and how they worked and looked like on these old systems. Love it!
What I hated the most in old computers were IDE cables. At least one for floppy drive, one more for cd/dvd player if you had one installed, and one for HDD (or even more if you had more than one inside the case). It was a mess. SATA drives made it a bit better, but kids today with NVME's will never understand it :) Thanks for the video!
Oh man, those Win95Plus themes brings back memories I didn't even know I had...
For me, in these days, I still preferred file manager, rather than windows explorer. I believe was still buried and still there to use.
Nice! Good to see focus beyond just games on old PCs. MP3s were a huge thing back then, no swapping CDs in your CD player and manually skipping any song you didn't like (or programming the player to skip them via an obtuse system), and changing of discs any time you wanted a different album or mix. Before portable MP3 players had the capacity to make them actually carry around a decent collection of songs (only a few before the iPod blew up the market), the computer is where a lot of my music I listened to played from! Even just the ripping of CDs I owned was a huge plus, and that's before factoring in the 'Napster Collection' of songs. The video could use timestamps for the different software, though.
I had shivers go down my spine when I heard the "Uh Oh" notification sound in ICQ...
Like a Pavlovian response. I’ve been trained by years of that Uh Oh sound. Even though it has been over 20 years since I last used it, everything still looks so familiar.
So many memmories ...... so many. Youv'e got me man and now, I will install Windows 95 in one of my retro pc's :))
Gotta love this blast from the past. Thank you for this video. .. I used to be almost the only person - and for sure the only kid that new how to handle everything about computers in depth, a-midst my social network, family and peers. Despite the fact (or because) I couldn't afford my own "high end" PC and always had to work with hand-me-down PC parts, trying to built a fully working PC with them. .. At some point I started to hide the fact that I knew my way around PCs, because i nearly got a burnout on constantly being asked to help out with PC problems (for free). ^^ Still I love this blast from the past, because back then handling PCs still had a certain feeling of magic to it.. of some reason.
This was nice to watch. I even remember my registration codes from these days. And my UIN is not far off yours. Also, my brain is still hard wired to react on that "uh oh" sound. Yep. It´s 1997 once again. Damn I liked my Optiplex Gxa with NT4.
This brought back memories! I still remember my ICQ number. And GoldWave... well, I'm still using it for simple tasks on Windows 7, it's so quick and easy!
Never, EVER, approach a computer saying or EVEN THINKING: I'll just do this quickly!!!
Lovely trip down memory lane. I really do like the simplicity of the early web pages that provided all the information you needed and were generally easy to navigate without all the trash you get today. I hate the way they just add stuff just because they can. The easy visual style of many of the programmes was also great. Netscape Navigator, sob, I do miss it.
The old Windows 95 (and 98) themes used to drive me crazy when they thought that they needed to have a sound for literally every single function.
I also remember some of the absolutely bonkers color choices that used to be common. Like lime green windows with red title bars.
I wasted so much time on ICQ (and IRC) as a kid. That “uh oh” sound reminds me so much of ICQ and WS_FTP. It’s amazing how much of this software was on literally every person computer in the late 90s and now much of it just doesn’t exist anymore.
yeah those were fun times ... everybody I knew had ICQ and we made it a sport to have more contacts in ICQ than the other person ... when at college everybody was using it. It was (and still is) so much fun to in internet tech related positions. First steps in software development with Visual Basic to now rolling out cloud based architectures. One hell of a ride.
Man, that ICQ sound brings back so many memories
Always loved these old classic computers! Actually, still have one of my old computers from that era. And Asus P5A-B Motherboard Socket 7 550MHZ with 384MB Of RAM Pentium 1. The prices on those old motherboards are insane. Which I still had my old Acer Aspire Pentium 1 with Windows 95 Emarld Green Computer. Another great classic! Great video! Thanks for sharing!
I wish there was a way the use the t-online email client from 1995, my first email client. So great to use, that interface is still stuck in my head, such great memories, the thrill of email was so great!
Back in the day, I was a huge Ultima Online player, and ICQ was the de facto standard communication tool among UO players. We would use it to organize guild events, dungeon raids, ask friends to help/heal us/resurrect us/etc. When I heard that iconic "Uh oh!" new message sound that really brought on a wave of nostalgia.
And ACDSee is still my favorite image browser out there. I have tried many others over the years, and none of them have quite the same amount of features and ease of use as ACDsee. I used to use it alot to quickly sort through files I downloaded from usenet and sort them into categories. In fact I am still using it today! Turns out ACDSee runs just fine using Wine on my Ubuntu desktop :)
IE4 integration within Windows Explorer itself was a big thing (taskbar quick launch, windows explorer enhancements).
It was very nice addition to overall Win95 experience, and made it very close to what Win98 experience was with the integrated IE4 out of the box.
I used Windows Commander (and now Total Commander) for very long years since late 90s, till the point where there was no more need for.
It is yet very powerful file manager with plugin support.
Hey, nice retrospection here. :)
I quite like that Siemens machine. Sure it's basic and a bit dull, but I've used SO many of those 90s office machines it hits the nostalgia nerve..
Glad to see good old Windows Commander, ha! Fun fact: it still exists today, renamed as Total Commander. I still use it daily, it's an essential piece of software in my life.
mine too, since then
Man, that "uh oh" sound fired some synapses that haven't been used in decades lol
You're channels underrated, this deserves more views! :)
Good effort. Good old computer memories of 1990s.
Oh, wow. What a phenomenal video. This just took me back to 9th grade! I bet Frasier Crane would have used the Musica sounds scheme... We all know that Jerry Seinfeld used a variety of Macs on his show, though. LOL
what a beautiful computer.
Thanks for the lovely nostalgia trip.
Great trip down memory lane, thanks!
What a great review of the good old times 😍. Oh damn dude, you made me miss those times so much now. Thanks for this great video!
The "uh oh" sound effect still triggered an "Oh, I got a message" reflex in me after 20+ years, lol
excellent performance in mp3 files. and good combination with the audio card, it's like a perfect music player with all its retro style, plus some games. very good video...
These Siemens PCs were built very solid and with reliable, high quality parts
Amazing video! brings me so much of my memories back… Thank you!
Dangerous Creatures was always my favourite theme on Windows 98 and I still use it on some of my retro systems.
So retro cool the Siemens Nixdorf machines!
As a consistent computer user since May 2007, I had Winamp, WinZip, VCD Cutter, K-Lite Codec/MPC _(Media Player Classic),_ Age of Empires II, DOS-based LOGO, Jogo Disks full of Flash Games, etc. Those are pieces of nostalgia now.
Also includes NERO CD/DVD burner, showtime package; PowerDVD by CyberLink; Windows Media Player; and VLC media Player _(still in use now)_
Plus Windows XP screensavers.
@@rickybhattacharya6 Consistent comp user since 2007? Nooooob!
This was an excellent video. At my office, we had windows 95 computers and while they worked fairly well for general office usage, I was concerned about getting one to work properly in a home set-up. So, I decided to buy an Apple All-in-One 5400 which, included a 15-inch Sony CRT, CD-ROM drive, floppy drive, built-in speakers, keyboard, and mouse. Plus, I also had a user install Apple internal video capture card system and the Apple TV/FM radio internal card system with its matching black and white remote. While, many during this time felt that Apple computer would be out of business soon selected it because Apple made or branded all your components (CPU, printer, scanner, digital camera, etc.) and your system was truly "plug and play" and in addition, each computer came with Lifetime telephone support (smile..smile).
Absolutely flash back to the 90s. Everybody was using this demonstrated set of programs. A nice video. Still using Windows Commander, which has since been renamed to Total Commander.
The screen look great on camera !
This video brings some fantastic memories from that days. In my case, I started to use Windows 98, but many programs that you've showed here, I remember using them.
i use the icq msg sound for my notification's on my phone. every oh!oh! takes me back to the 90's
Those Plus themes are awesome! I used every one for a while.
i loved inside your computer theme the mose
when i was in school they had gateway 2000 computers with netscape navigator. i kinda miss 90s internet. i had a bunch of different instant messengers. there were also some chat sites i liked to use.
That was a real trip down memory lane
Thanks for those memories revisit , wish i could explore Win95 online
MS Dangerous Creatures, Ancient Lands, Encarta.
Countless hours of entertainment and knowledge.
Wow so nostalgic...
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I immediately remember my ICQ no. while looking this😄
Woooowww. I love that PC tower design.
Thank you for the time travel. :)
I still enjoy the install process of 95 and 98,, great memories
Ahh 95 to 97 those were the days
You indeed they were … can I ask a quick question ? How did you end up watching this video ? Was it recommended somewhere ?
@@RetroSpector78 yeah it ended up in my feed of things to watch. Brought back all those warm fuzzy early internet days feelings
A nice trip down memory lane starting & finishing with Duke Nukem 3D! 😁
I wasn't really a Windows 98 guy, because Windows 95 was the first OS that I really liked.
Started with ms-dos and Win3.11, when I got the Win95 install on a 40M HDD i was very happy. Installed on my 486 DX2@66 and with each and every upgrade of the machine I saw the improvements on the OS speed. I went from 486 DX2@66 to 5x86@133; from 8M RAM to 48M, from 80M HDD to almost 1G (few HDDs, the biggest being 504M), from Trident 8900 VGA to Trident TGui9440 VLB; from Terratec SB clone to ALS 100+. Also I had a 2x CDROM with Mitsumi(?) interface that I used with the SB clone.
When got my first P1@90, I did the same: upgrade the machine and see the improvements in the OS functionality and speed. I went from P1@90 to P1@133, from 16M to 64, from Trident ISA to S3 Trio PCI and I was always impressed about how I managed to squeeze every bit of power from the machine.
Aside the fact that I used to format the PC every 2-3 months because there were many floppy that I wanted to see what was on them, many CDs with shareware ore pirated that Were very intriguing and many times come with a little virus or I installed too many things that the poor computer was overwhelmed and the Windows 95 became inevitably corrupted.
I spent many nights on my Win95 PCs, playing 1602 AD, Command and Conquer Red Alert, Civilization 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and Starcraft.
Now I have a P2@333MHz laptop with Win95 just for the nostalgia. And of course there is Plus!, Winamp with tons of skins, AcdSee, WinZip, WinAce, WinRar, Office, Windows Commander.
Btw, my favorite theme was Inside my computer.
I remember all these themes on my Windows 98 version. Good old time when I tried to mix up my computer with Windows blind.
I knew the sound of Duke3D sounded familiar, I have an AWE64 in my super socket 7 machine.
Ahhh, the days of plug n pray!
Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass !
Can't wait for the NT 4 / Exchange server video!
haha great video man brings back my childhood life in the 90s
I was there Gandalf.... 3000 years ago...
What a beautiful machine :)
Netscape 1.0 was so cool!
Lovely choice of users! :D
Complimenti, è un ottimo video che spiega bene tutte le funzionalità dell'epoca di Windows 95. Non esistono più sistemi operativi cosi semplici ed intuitivi e facili da usare come Windows 95/98
That new mail sound was the first few notes of the Log song.
Thanks to an independent video game called "You Are Grounded!", I have gained quite a significant interest in PC hardware from the late 1990s, in addition to a massive hit of nostalgia for the era of personal desktop computing that defined some of the earliest memories of my childhood in the early 2000s upon hearing that sweet Windows 98 startup sound. I must warn you that although this PC would have been perfectly period-correct in that game, the game itself came out on Halloween of 2020, and so would likely require a modern PC to run it. However, I have since come up with an idea for a fan-made game called "You Are Ungrounded!" where the plot technically retcons the game as a nearly direct sequel, picking up directly where the game leaves off on the assumption that you got the good ending in the original game. In the game, the anthropomorphic insectoid bat creature has beaten his abusive father and used magical powers to resurrect his mother, who died before the events of the last game at the hands of the father's abuse, to help him live his best life. The basement room where this computer is held is split into three parts. The left division of the room where he sleeps also holds a very similar PC for him to play the hottest IPs of late 1990s desktop PC gaming when he has free time from his homework. The center division has a living and dining area off a kitchen where a second similar PC is used as a media center PC showing off the then nascent world of streaming media in the late 1990s. The third division of that room contains the bathroom/laundry room/utility room. However, because of the fact that these games both take place in the spring of 1997, both of these computers are seen running Windows 95 with the Microsoft+ update, which would have been perfectly within the wheelhouse and time period of the computer shown in this video.
Love the walk thru of everything. Thanks so much.
I was a user of Netscape even in Win 98 se however there is some of Netscapes legacy in the new Mozilla Firefox so that is cool. Netscape Navigator may be gone but Netscapes spirit lives on in the form of the advanced future browser Firefox.
Great video! Hope to see another part soon! Wonderful times! 😃
It would be really awesome if you could do this with windows 3.11, btw this video was great!