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Nostalgia

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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That said, I am the same age as Windows XP...

Jesus Christ, get off my lawn! What is a 10 year old doing unsupervised on the internet??

checks Wikipedia

Windows XP 2001-10-25

Damn, you're old enough to drink.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, this feels wrong.

Anyone else remember what a huge deal windows 95 launch was? With The Rolling Stones.

It always struck me that “start me up” was used for the launch, since the chorus has “you make a grown man cry” in it. It could just be my 16 year olds sense of humor at the time though.

https://youtu.be/P0AJM6HMYjM?si=A8-pv0n03c_l7g7x