UlteriorCulture t1_iycecte wrote on November 30, 2022 at 10:28 AM

This post seems to be for a very specific age group. I grew up with DOS and there are people on reddit who used punch-cards.

ShlomoBerlin t1_iycf3u4 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 10:39 AM

Don't make me that old. Commodore Basic was the new shit. But we had a punch card system at school.

Atrium41 t1_iychvue wrote on November 30, 2022 at 11:18 AM

Apple Macintosh classic 2 was my default

TheRealOneTwo t1_iycgyhr wrote on November 30, 2022 at 11:06 AM

I grew up in between punch cards and DOS with UNIX

UlteriorCulture t1_iychsmy wrote on November 30, 2022 at 11:17 AM

I only discovered UNIX (various open source BSDs at work) in my 20s (well into the Windows Era) but really do appreciate its design.

savvaspc t1_iychrlc wrote on November 30, 2022 at 11:16 AM

Windows XP started in 2001 and the last security update was released in 2014. For Windows 7, these dates are 2009 and 2020 respectively.

XP became very popular around 2002 and was very widely used until at least 2010. Vista didn't persuade a lot of people, so around 2010 the change over to 7 started. Then 8 was a flop, so the next big movement was around 2016-17 towards Windows 10 (which was released in 2015).

To sum up, the popularity of 7 started ~8 years after XP. I learned XP when I was 11. I would have to have a kid when I was 8 if I wanted the kid to experience 7 the same way I did with XP.