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UlteriorCulture t1_iycecte wrote

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.

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ThatOgre t1_iyceorp wrote

What's the threshold for "young?"

In 2001 XP was brand new. I was 27.

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Hygro t1_iycexgy wrote

Your kids are going to see Windows XP and Windows 7 as the exact same era and will only have nostalgia for what they experience personally.

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w1n5t0nM1k3y t1_iycg714 wrote

Replying to ThatOgre (#800,280)

And windows 7 came out in 2009, Followed by windows 8 in 2012. so I not sure how this post makes any sense. If you were "young" in 2001, then most likely your kids wouldn't be using Windows 7.

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PansexualEmoSwan t1_iycgqnp wrote

I had a long period where I was a console gamer so I didn't upgrade windows XP until I finally bought a machine with Win10.

Also, in elementary school I was the IT kid who figured out how to make the Apple II GEs work when nobody else could. I had a Com64 at home and remember when Win 3.11 was the shiny new shit.

Now I'm a truck driver. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

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bigred4715 t1_iycgv6c wrote

Now I’m feeling old I remember using DOS in school. I bet you don’t know what a ditto machine is.

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savvaspc t1_iychqy0 wrote

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. Even comparing XP to 10 would be a stretch.

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savvaspc t1_iychrlc wrote

Replying to UlteriorCulture (#800,188)

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.

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Shid_n_Fard t1_iyedra3 wrote

hi i’m 20 and i see it that way, i really don’t see the appeal of windows 7 maybe someone can explain?

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