Windows XP turns 25 years old on Sunday.
But the Windows XP you know and remember, Service Pack 3, is only 18 years old.
XP SP3 is in fact younger than Vista (2008-04-29 vs 2007-01-30).
@arielmt I can hear the CD drive in this picture
@arielmt oh gods, there's so many loose cds and a bit of some type of board just resting on a plastic bag, my eye started twitching!
Nobody "upgraded" to Vista if they could help themselves. It was too graphically bloated even for many new computers, not to mention the old ones.
The maximum was 4 GB, right?
I don't remember how much RAM my XP-installed PCs had, but I'm going to guess something like 1 GB tops, as half-life 2 had recommendation of ½gb and I don't think I could play it straight from the box.
@silverwizard @arielmt @iju For whatever reason, a core memory for me is when we got a 1.7GB HDD and thinking, "wow, I'll never be able to fill this drive!"
Now where did I put my walker?
@iju @silverwizard This was so true that Microsoft had to extend XP's general support and endorse "downgrades" to XP on new PCs for an extra three years, just in time for 7's release.
@arielmt I remember being weirdly excited for SP3's release (and SP2 before it!)
Happy 25th anniversary, Windows XP!
#WindowsXP #WinXP
(Also, happy 25th to this cursed photo)