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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers

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Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.

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I would totally hang with that lady in the thumbnail lol
- Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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  My wife still using windows 2000 on her laptop. Still boots and runs. She just doesn’t connect it to the internet.
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  Depends if the photo was taken recently or at the time W95 was around…

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