Windows XP

What's it called when you backport modern features to retro systems like this mockup? I swear there's a word for this...

Retroshittification
- Backtrackarrhea
It would be awesome if there was a community focused on that
- Be the change you wish to see in the world
Backporting
Demake?
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.
I think you're looking for "anachronism": A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists.
I’d call it techlapse

I like THIS Windows

That's kind of overwhelming to me. It's like there's no bottom to that rabbit hole. I love it and I have so many questions.
Woah cool website, I don't how'd you know about this but thanks you
- How? Using Internet since more than 25 Years result in only ignoring the most new pages.
Nice, even moving the computer into the trash worked as expected.
- Even a community in GitHub with forks, mods and plug-ins.
  https://github.com/win93-community/awesome-win93
I love this, I wasted so much time on my phone. The Playstation start up sound was amazing. I need to open it on a conputer
Half-Life 3 confirmed
Oh yeah, that's gooooood...
- Vulve is my favourite company. Can't wait for their new game store, stamp, to come out!
- The Doom (Gafa 3D) really works like the original, with some "differences".

The little shield next to the turn off computer icon implying it'll update it without asking is a nice touch

Looks like ads in the start menu aren't anything new.

Edit: I'm dumb, but I'm leaving my comment here.

Surfing away with an administrator account.

Trying to teach my in-laws not to do that was impossible.
- Maybe it was just easier to install those browser bars as admin.
That is the sole reason the UAC exists in post-Vista Windows.

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

What the fuck is wrong with you... No... Don't you dishonor my house like that...

Thanks, I threw up a little.

Instance blocking doesn't block comments?
- That is correct. Your instance needs to defederate from the other instance to also block comments/users.
  User-based instance blocking is actually just hiding posts from that instance. It does not hide or block comments made from users of that instance on posts that are not coming from that instance.

Those msn searches 🤣

You could substantially de-uglify XP with a different theme, but, damn....that ugly

Which one, black or silver?
- Homestead
I had a cool grey and orange theme it was sexy, looked like a pack of Marlboro Black
No matter how much we loved XP we always knew that shit was ugly.
- Functional though, you could just open your start menu and find what you wanted immediately instead of typing to search for it like I have been doing for the last 5-10 years
- Which one did I like? ME?

Thanks!

I 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.

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.

I preferred Yahoo Messenger to Windows solely due to the ROTFLMAO emoji… it kicked ass. Made me giggle every time I used it.

- Yes!!!
Did it kick the llama's ass?
You missed out on hella custom emoticons. Had hundreds of "lol"s
Edit: and nudges lol

tihi

but it's also a very good visualization what windows user got slow boiled into

Make thyself scarce, cur, less ye see the back of my hand.

Look how they massacred my boy...

I love the attention to detail, putting the upsell “30days of msn premium” between the “start” and “all programs” buttons, beautiful.

I crave retro futuristic. The flesh craves nostalgia. Also... pentiums and 512mb of ram would have fucking been cooked if they tried this lmao

Honestly though can we go back to the days or at least adopt design philosophies where the entire OS, programs, and everyday browsing could fit on just that much ram
Think about the Pentium versions of the Celeron, too. XP was their peak time.
- Honestly maybe even their only time to shine.

I don't remember seeing all the internet links in the start menu.

That's the meme
- Trash meme

Windows is ideal for experts, Twilight Zone lovers and desire for adventure, for the rest Linux is better (In the beginning it was the other way around, the first Distros even caused some suicids)

XP

RETVRN

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

Recall snapshots back to 2003, damn that's crazy