Those msn searches 🤣
I love the attention to detail, putting the upsell “30days of msn premium” between the “start” and “all programs” buttons, beautiful.
Some Microsoft exec somewhere: “WRITE THAT DOWN”
They will distribute this image and say: “See? It has always been this way…”
It’s missing filling the start bat with a massive Copilot box and weather/news widget. Or maybe missed an opportunity to make Clippy the AI assistant.
I love-hate it.
Since at that time these shits weren’t really normalized, I can imagine some people would actually like these things and maybe even use them. It would have feel… kinda modern? If that makes sense… (tho when I first saw XP after using 95 and 98 in my life at that point, it felt absolutely super-duper modern x3)
I like this image - it is really nicely done. I don’t like what it represents, but the image itself is decent.
Given that this was the prime time for Bonzi Buddy, I’m inclined to say I agree with you. People chose these things years ago, because it added more to the experience outside of “here is your word processor, here is notepad, here are the three games you have to play”.
And Bonzi even was a 3rd party thing. Now imagine that shit, just built into the system by that time. 😅
Heck, even MSN Browser was a thing and I’m pretty sure just because it said “Good afternoon” or some shit when you launched it.
I remember seeing AOL on Win3.11 (I had been using telnet, pine, lynx.) and it looked like a bunch of spam ads.
I preferred Yahoo Messenger to Windows solely due to the ROTFLMAO emoji… it kicked ass. Made me giggle every time I used it.
You missed out on hella custom emoticons. Had hundreds of "lol"s
Edit: and nudges lol
Yes!!!
It’s fantastic.
Did it kick the llama’s ass?
Surfing away with an administrator account.
That is the sole reason the UAC exists in post-Vista Windows.
Trying to teach my in-laws not to do that was impossible.
Maybe it was just easier to install those browser bars as admin.
Thanks!
I hate it.
What’s it called when you backport modern features to retro systems like this mockup? I swear there’s a word for this…
I’d call it techlapse
Retroshittification
Backtrackarrhea
Backport-a-potty
oh my god brilliant
🤣💀
Demake?
I think you’re looking for “anachronism”: A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists.
Backporting
Ok…someone do this but in an Atari 2600 theme. I wanna see what loot boxes and modern gaming shit would look in 160x192 128 color resolution.
It would be awesome if there was a community focused on that
Be the change you wish to see in the world
Is there an Easter egg or is this just nostalgia?
Start menu looks like Win10/11 with ads, suggestions and news. This is not how XP used looked like
It’s so well done I image that everyone who was too young to use XP doesn’t realize this is satire.
Edit: sorry for the double post. My lemmy app threw me an error now I can not delete my second comment
The little shield next to the turn off computer icon implying it’ll update it without asking is a nice touch
I don’t remember seeing all the internet links in the start menu.
That’s the meme
Trash meme
We’re in the trash timeline.
Recall snapshots back to 2003, damn that’s crazy
windows has normalized all that shit so well that this image is genuinely disturbing compared to the win 11 start menu. I am glad my windows days ended years ago
