manifesto Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 (edited) I was 15. Seems I'm one of the younger types here. On a related note, Facebook reminded me on Saturday that XP EoL'd 3 years ago. I still have all my "DIE XP, DIE" memes saved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Raze Subscriber² Posted April 10, 2017 Subscriber² Share Posted April 10, 2017 46 years young and it was a very exciting day! Draconian Guppy, +E.Worm Jimmy and LimeMaster 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3X4S Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 I remember when XP came out, and I remember when intel released the Pentium. On the day the Pentium was released I was in my dad's car and the news on the radio was blasting intel because there (paraphrasing) "was a bug in the chip that would crash the whole system when it had to do computations to the 7th decimal point" or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni_78 Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 I was 23. I've always remembered the first part of that leaked serial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Raphaël G. MVC Posted April 10, 2017 MVC Share Posted April 10, 2017 22! Those were the days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted April 10, 2017 Subscriber² Share Posted April 10, 2017 28. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted April 10, 2017 MVC Share Posted April 10, 2017 22 Years old (Started my computer repair business 2 years later) I was working at an internet service provider doing tech support at the time. I remember back then, I paid $20 for a copy of RC1 so I could play with it and write instructions for our ISP support staff FunkyMike and +E.Worm Jimmy 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalRox Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 I was 47. Now... you young punks... get off my lawn!!! FunkyMike and +Raze 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashG Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seahorsepip Veteran Posted April 10, 2017 Veteran Share Posted April 10, 2017 Uhmmm... 6? I remember that we had a Windows ME computer around that time which was extremely slow and was mainly used for email and playing around with paint Brandon H 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneNutter MVC Posted April 10, 2017 MVC Share Posted April 10, 2017 I was 15 at the time, I remember downloading Windows XP RC1 over 5 nights on dial-up internet. After that I was disappointed Windows XP didn't work on my Pentium 2 @ 300mhz PC, the PC would simply switch off on the Windows XP boot screen, yet it would run Windows Me perfectly fine. That's still one of the most unusual PC problems i've ever had to this day, the RTM build also did that which really puzzled me back then. I seem to remember getting a DVD drive around a year later and finding my PC would switch off when playing a DVD. So i replaced the PSU and DVD playback worked fine, I then decided to try install Windows XP again, this time XP would boot and the PC didn't turn off. I guess XP must have drawn more power at boot then Windows Me did, yet I remember been able to use Windows Me perfectly fine, even playing games like Unreal Tournament and Quake 3. A strange issue, however my first memory of Windows XP! What an improvement over Windows Me that was, PC's crashing every couple of hours was finally not normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJGM Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 Nearly 3 months short of turning 27 ... I'm now rapidly approaching 43 ... ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-T- Member Posted April 10, 2017 Member Share Posted April 10, 2017 I was working in a PC store, a small independent one, and I had that key memorised for our test installs. I was 21 years old at the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 12 year old, just become teenager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menifred Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 (edited) Wow, 18. Time does fly. I had ME at the time. Did a clean install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zagadka Subscriber² Posted April 10, 2017 Subscriber² Share Posted April 10, 2017 21. Totally remember that, and totally remember being ###### that they used Luna instead of Whistler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielx64 Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 I was like 12/13 at the time. 4 hours ago, SoCalRox said: Now... you young punks... get off my lawn!!! NO! SoCalRox 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightScreams Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Old enough to be making enough money to actually buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 I had turned 40 the previous month to RTW (July), and I was, in fact, running the last RC on my desktop of XP Professional. I was also still an employee of Big Cable Company (though I would wind up leaving Big Cable one year later); 9/11 would be one month after XP's RTW; however, contrary to some memes, it was NOT a last-ditch attempt to keep Windows 2000 Professional in circulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted April 11, 2017 MVC Share Posted April 11, 2017 Like 16 or something, I forget how to count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted April 11, 2017 Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 11, 2017 9 hours ago, Steven P. said: Windows XP was released to general availability on October 25, 2001 but the RTM happened at the end of August, after which it was leaked, and the infamous shot above happened. But, how old were you when it leaked at the end of August (RTM was August 24, 2001) I was 28! 21 y.o, here. The XP release hit me right in the nuts. I loved it (lol) and i had to turn to neowin to make the new amazing OS looking the way I wanted. Draconian Guppy and +Raze 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flawedspirit Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 10 or 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted April 11, 2017 Subscriber² Share Posted April 11, 2017 11, still using Windows 95 system (IBM Aptiva, beige box) at the time too. two years later got a P4 based system that came with XP on it, surprisingly Vista ran like a camp on that system compared to XP. Then about 5 years after that built my first PC and loaded 7 on it the first chance I had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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