2004 Time Machine Thread

It's sometime in 2004. What is your:

OS,
CPU,
RAM,
Resolution,
Refresh rate,
Internet connection speed,
Game(s) being currently ran,
Application(s) currently running?

>Windows ME
>Pentium III 900Mhz
>128MB
>1280x1024
>75Hz probably
>200-300KB/s
>RuneScape, killing dwarves in the dwarven mines
>MSPaint (RS screenshots)

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I was 4 years old, i didn't have a computer.

>Windows XP
>Core 2 Quad
>1024MB
>1280x1024
>60hz
>256kb/s
>Runescape, Starcraft, Ages of Empires
not at the same time though

This brings me back. I could be wrong with the time though, can't remember.

I didnt get a computer til 2005
Had Windows XP, an AMD Athlon and 512mb RAM

be damned if I can remember specs.

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>Windows 98
>Pentium 2
>256MB (upgraded from 64)
>60hz
>dial up Netgear
>European Air War
>Internet Explorer reading the html support documents for the game

Windows XP
Athlon XP-M 2400+ OC'd to 2.2Ghz
256MB DDR400
1280x960
70hz
2 or 3 Mb
mIRC, Quake 3, 3DS Max (for school)

> Windows 98 SE
> Athlon XP 1800
> 768 MB ram
> 75 Hz
> 1600x1200@75 Hz Iiyama CRT
> 4/0.5 cable
> Half Life Team Fortress
> Direct Connect, eMule, Winamp

I had an old thinkpad from the time. Was comfy

>2004
>Core 2 quad

>Win XP
>P4 Northwood 2.4GHz
>2GB RAM
>GeForce 6200 overclocked to 6600 speeds
>1600x1200 60hz
>cable
>cowadoody, UT99, starcraft, NWN
>adobe photoshop, office 2003

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underage b&

XP
Piii 1.4
1gb
1280x1024 NEC IPS
75hz
256
beach head 2000, fsx, Q3a, habbo

LOL Beach Head 2000!


That hilarious starfish dive they do when you cannon the infantry

Have you ever noticed that the bullet impact sparks look more realistic than most games today?

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Don’t remember exactly but either 933Mhz pentium 3 with 256Mb ram running Linux or sometime around then I upgraded to athlon 64 1.8Ghz with 512Mb ram running Linux. Had a nice Samsung spva or whatever 1280x1024. Dunno refresh rate. Had shitty bellsouth dsl 1.5mbps iirc but it was awesome for me at the time having previously been relegated to shitty dialup after having had isdn earlier around the turn of the century.

Game not a lot morrowind probably and various opensource shit muds and Rogue likes.

As far as apps that was probably around when I switched from gnome to kde since gnome chucked everything like the fags they are. Used to use gaim then kopete a lot to talk to online frens and my long distance gf. Also used maya, and on wine ihad photoshop and painter. I dunno it was a comfy time. I miss my m long distance foreign gf. She’s married and has a daughter now. I’m single and destitute lol.

My dad bought a geforce card after I showed him that game. It's a classic.

man i remember playing Runescape i was like 11 or 12 barely knew english back then and never did a fucking quest but i still enjoyed that fucking game so much

youtube.com/watch?v=2xfH-F-8ytk

You do realize that Old School Runescape is a thing


It's literally this, but with QoL/engine fixes

Download RuneLite (it's FOSS) and join up

youtube.com/watch?v=D4hRmP-tw48

fucking kids these days, I was a hefty 6 by then

>Windows XP
>Pentium 4
>512mb
>1024x768
>75hz
>Broadband (I can't remember)
>Arthur's Reading Race
>IE, Office 2003, Napster

I was also 6.

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i was 3 owo
(not underage dont worry desu)

Wow that looks awesome

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it takes a special type of incel to remember the amount of RAM and the CPU they were using in 2004

>BAD MEMORY GOOD
>GOOD MEMORY BAD
t. boomer

>being in the womb
>Thinkpad R52 in developing hands
>2 days later, after having a comfy time
>pushed out of my vessel into the outside world
>fuckfuck
>i left my laptop inside
>its long gone

5 years old, building house with my LEGOs

>at least i left windows update on
>its nice and secure wherever it is
>windows xp sp2 installed

>Stop remembering things I don't

still the same

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>15-16 years making image macros and memes on Jow Forums
>now get paid $50equiv/hr for graphic design work

t'is a funny old life

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OS,
>windows XP
CPU,
>AMD athlon 64 2.4Ghz
RAM,
>512
Resolution,
>720
Refresh rate,
>60hz
Internet connection speed,
about 300 kb/s
Game(s) being currently ran,
>none
Application(s) currently running?
>Photoshop 8.0 ?

I want to go back.

>Windows xp/Fedora Core 2 dual boot
>Athlon 64 2Ghz
>1GB ram
>2x160GB HDD
>9600xt
>1280x1024 @70hz (1024x768@85 in games)
>15Mbps
>Q3A, CS 1.6, UT2003/4, Diablo II
>Microsoft Visual Studio, Paint Shop Pro 6, Office 2000, Eclipse

Win XP
Pentium 4
256mb RAM
1280x1024
60hz
AOL 56k

Running Runescape Classic, like the 2d looking one.

OS,
>Windows 98SE
CPU,
>Slot P3-500
RAM,
>384mb
Resolution,
>1280*1024
Refresh rate,
>60 or 75hz
Internet connection speed,
>56kb
Game(s) being currently ran,
>none because its too old (Matrox G400)
Application(s) currently running?
>paint, creative wavelab or whatever it was called, IE5.5 I think, word

Its amazing to me you had the foresight to archive such things

I'm starting to think that incel means 'anybody who is passionate about anything other than sports and getting laid'

I don't have any screenshots. It was some E-Machine shitbox. But it was mine, and mine alone.

Win XP
P4
512 MB RAM
1024x768 CRT
60Hz, probably.
Slow as balls
RuneScape, or as my mother called it RunEscape.
MS Visual BASIC 5.0

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I can tell you that in 2004 I've taken half my teenage savings and bought my first very own computer after ten years of only using family computers. Athlon 64 3200+, 512 MB DDR RAM, some 200 GB hard drive I think, also I got memed into buying a dog-shit slow Geforce FX 5500 because it was impressed by the 256 MB of VRAM. Ironically the 64-bit Athlons were completely useless over a 32-bit processor because 64-bit Windows XP wasn't even released yet, and by the time it did it was an unstable mess and had such a bad reputation that even with Vista many users still opted for 32-bit, nevermind applications only slowly adopting 64-bit anyway. Still decent CPUs though, gave Intel a run for their money but at far lower clocks.

>owo
>desu
>not underage
maybe on paper but you're 12 on the inside

>Windows XP Pro 32bit SP2
>AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @ 2.5GHz /w Thermaltake Volcano 7+
>ABIT nVidia GeForce4 ti4200 64MB AGP 4x
>Epox 8RDA+ nForce 2
>1GB DDR
>Sound Blaster Live! PCI
>Antec SX830 Case
>1152x864 17" CRT
>72Hz
>1.5Mbit ADSL
>Lineage II, World of Warcraft, Battlefield Vietnam, Day of Defeat, CS: Source
>Winamp, Opera, Rivatuner

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I MISS GRAPHICS CARD WAIFUS

>holidays of 2006 retro build soon

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Late at night I'd steal my dad's laptop to play WCIII on our dial-up. He had a password on it so I'd boot it up into XP safe mode, log into the hidden admin account,and then using only the keyboard (the touchpad drivers wouldn't load in safe mode) I'd re-enable a second admin account, reboot, then login in and play games, undoing all of that at the end of the night.

Now my parents are surprised that I'm a programmer because they never let me have access to computers or the internet back then.

I remember nothing about the laptop besides that it was a Toshiba.

>Windows XP
>P4 or maybe upgraded to some athlon already
>Don't remember how much RAM, 256MB or 512MB maybe?
>1024x768
>probably 75Hz
>Motherfucking Dial-up
>ProPilot '99, Dangerous Dave, Comanche, Viper Racing, F-22 Raptor
>Firefox

I remember finding a bunch of games deep in the PC which I had never seen before too, Heros of Might and Magic and another one which I don't know the name, but was a some medieval setting with a RTS camera, and it was fucking brutal, I remember my guys having some gory deaths, damn, now I wonder what it was called.

You have to be 18 or older to post here

Sadly the first people born in a year starting with 2- are allowed to post on Jow Forums now.

Oh hi Mark! Wallpaper absolutely kicks ass though.

like I'd remember any of that, I was floating in drugs and pussy at university

>but was a some medieval setting with a RTS camera, and it was fucking brutal, I remember my guys having some gory deaths, damn, now I wonder what it was called.
Sounds like stronghold

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Windows XP
Pentium 4 (idk which one)
2GB iirc
1280x1024 flatscreen
10-15 mbps cable internet
Runescape , counter strike and habbo hotel
MSN , Hyves and some music player

My uncle built me a really nice pc back then. It even had a fan monitor on the front panel of the case

Kinda looks like it, but I don't think it is, I distinctly remember the deaths being way more bloody and gory.

>Windows XP
>P4
> 512MB
>1024x768
>probably 75Hz
>Motherfucking Dial-up
>ProPilot '99, Dangerous Dave, Comanche, Viper Racing, F-22 Raptor
>Firefox

win95
233mhz cryix
64mb ram
1024x768x85
some weird jaton gpu
6gb hdd
33.6k dial up
cs 1.5

Osrs is nothing like runescape from 2005-2006. Dont lie.

The future is now old man, millennials are basically boomers now.

Windows 2000
Celeron Slot 1 333 MHz
196 mb SD-RAM
1024x768
75 Hz
56 kbit/s
many, whatever 5 yo would play in PC

I was 5. What was your first OS, your own computer? Vista for me.

The fuck are you on about? It literally is.

>2004
>Core 2 Quad
>I could be wrong with the time.

Yes you are. You sure are.

Lol try p4 3.8ghz max

As in the people there? Yeah, it’s different because most of the players aren’t kids anymore. But other than that it’s the 2007 version of Runescape + some new stuff added in.

Toshiba Satellite A65-S126
it could run flight simulator 2004, but mostly i just played Runescape and lurked 4chin

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not one single mention of UT2K4.
what the fuck is this thread.

36/m/alcoholic so memory is hazy:

>OS
Win 98SE then XP for directx reasons (Steam etc)
>CPU
can't remember, probably AMD at that time
>RAM
1gb or thereabouts
>Resolution
1280x1024 i think
>Refresh rate
can't remember
>Internet connection speed
p. sure i'd moved out by then so finally away from 56k and onto 1 or 2mbit ADSL. w00tah
>Game(s) being currently ran
UT2K4 or HL1/TFC and later HL2 (towards end of year)
>Application(s) currently running?
Steam (member since march '04 - R.I.P. in piece WON), firefox, thunderbird, MSN, HalfLifeSoundSelector, mIRC, sometimes hammer (or worldcraft as it used to be known)/wally/HLCC etc (also photoshop 5.0 if wally was open)

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>Debian 3
>Pentium 4
>512M
>1280x1024 DELL
>75Hz
>1mb/s
>Quake 3
>Mozilla Firefox

It's better just without the young naivety

mines bigger

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i had and am still using this acer ferrari 3400
>Athlon 64 3000+
>1gb 333mhz DDR
>128mb Radeon 9700 Pro
>80GB 4200rpm HDD
>windows XP pro
>1400x1050 SXGA+ @60hz

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wew i was already 7 by then
i feel old af holy shit time to kms

10 years old

Windows XP
Some pentium 4, I don't know. I know I had a Q6600 a few years later at release though.
Fucked if I remember the RAM
75hz
1280x1024
was able to get about 50kbyte down
Maplestory, Runescape, Adventure Quest, Neopets, Knights of the Old Republic, Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 since I was replaying those every year at that point, fucked i I remember what else
The only other thing I know is that I upgraded from whatever geforce I had after my voodoo 2 (geforce 4?) to a 6600 late that year/early 2005.

Some kind of pentium 4 with 256 mb of ram. No proper graphics card. But I had a sound card with stereomix and could record stuff off of websites.

I spent most of my time on mpogd.com "multiplayer online games directory" where I would search out new shit and play every free MMO you can think of. My favorites were Continuum, RO, Helbreath, and 'Legends/Dark Ages'

I recall some text browser games, something like 'pimp wars' or some shit having a large userbase. Lots of browser games always at the top listings. It was a solid site and introduced me to a lot of stuff. For you younger people, you probably remember Flyff and Conquer online. Those were both on there shortly after they came into existence

Torn city and Universal Criminal were cool

UC is actually still around, but has very few users

>Got into highschool so was gifted a self built pc in 2001
>Planned buildng it for 4 months now since was stuck with a p2 233 with s3 virge dx (later upgraded to geforce 4 mx) and want to get bang for the buck.

>Windows XP
>Athlon 2600 XP
>ECS N2U 400
> 2gb ddr
>56k dialup
>Various eroge flightsims age of empires

Thank you everyone to participating in my FREE data thread.Time to enjoy a cool $22

easy answer

had a pentium 2 with 32mb ram and a 4gb hard drive

that's all I remember about it. I was 11 at the time

didn't have internet connected to house in 2004

played solitare, freecell, that's about it

>OS,
Windows 95
>CPU,Ram,refresh etc..
Can't remember the specs, it was some ancient prebuilt Desktop that couldn't even fucking play Generals or Warcraft III.
These games ran at less than flip book animation single digit framerates.
>Internet connection speed,
Dial Up, around 256Kbps and I rarely used it because I got charged by the minute.
>Game(s) being currently ran,
C&C Red alert 1 and 2, Delta Force, Army men,
I was more into consoles back then, mostly played on my PS2.
My first desktop built was around half a decade later.

I wish I got into the internet earlier to know what it was like back then. Missed out on so many interesting things.

all the kool kids talk like that now gramps, get with the program senpai

>play iRO and kRO
>need more hats
>almost a whole week to download the 1gb sakray patch
>need more hats
>search for shady eAthena servers
>need more hats
>play random 50+ rates lvl 255/150 cap servers while they last
>need more hats

Basically all i did in 2004.

There was this one MMO called 'Corum Online' that left a good impression on me despite being kind of shitty. It had a world map similar to an old FF game where you'd enter different towns and dungeons from before doing the standard MMO fare. Also a couple of great songs youtu.be/yCHrUMV-v9g

>OS
Windows XP
>CPU
AMD Athlon 1200 XP? I think?
>RAM
512MB
>Resolution
1280x1024
>Refresh rate
75Hz
>Internet connection speed
1mbps. God bless Telewest Broadband.
>Games
UT2004, C&C Red Alert 2 and Generals, Age of Mythology, Starcraft
>Applications
Mozilla, MSN Messenger, Winamp, Limewire, WinMX, Office 03, Dreamweaver MX2004

>OS
Windows XP
>CPU
Pentium 4 lmao
>GPU
Pic related friend
>Resolution
Based 1280x1024
>Refresh rate
60hz
>Internet connection speed
5 mbps through Charter Communications
>Game(s)
FFXI, SC:BW, WC3, Diablo 2, Guild Wars
>Applications
WinAmp
Firefox
AIM
Photoshop CS2

those were the days

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>Mac OS X 10.3
>PowerPC G4 @ 700Mhz
>128 MB
>i can't remember the resolution i had it at, desu but it was probably 1024x768
>probably 60Hz
>whatever was fast enough to play Neopets
>either The Sims, Civilization III, Age of Mythology, or Neverwinter Nights. Depending on my mood
>messing around with the Apple version of MSPaint, moving around the gif files that the Neopets used to come in and pretending (with my sibling) that we were these characters

i miss these times so much lads

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Win xp
Celeron (northwood) 2 ghz
256 mb
Had an 1600x1200 monitor, but used 1280x1024
60hz
No internet
Nfsu2

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>OS,
win 98
>CPU,
AMD k6-2
>RAM,
64mb
>Resolution,
dunno
>Refresh rate,
crt but dunno
>Internet connection speed,
none
>Game(s) being currently ran,
sim city, gta 2 n stuff

2000 was 19 years ago.

Just play vscape if you want the real 2007 content.

(OP)
>It's sometime in 2004. What is your:
>OS,
Windows XP, just switched from WindowsME, which i had for a long time because i could not bother switching
>CPU,
Just updated my Athlon1333 to an Athlon XP 2400+ Thoroughbred
>RAM,
256MB DDR1 PC2100
>Resolution,
1024x768
>Refresh rate
75Hz,
>Internet connection speed,
I think my provider just upgraded my ADSL from 256kb to 512.
>Game(s) being currently ran,
Starsige Tribes for sure, probably also playing Thief: Deadly Shadows without much hopes.
>Application(s) currently running?
4 different mirc instances (because of 3 fileservers running), kazaa, matlab, office 2003, photoshop 7(?), winamp, wmp,

GPU
i think i have a second handed Albatron Ti 4200P Turbo, which ABSOLUTELY ROCKS.

>OS
Probably Gentoo, back when it was still good and worth using (CFLAGS and USE flags actually was useful when computers were piles of shit)
>CPU
I don't even fucking remember. 1.5GHz P4, maybe?
>RAM
lolidunno
>resolution
1280x960
>refresh rate
85Hz
>connection speed
Don't even remember (cable internet)
>games
Emulated old games, like I still play
>applications
Typical shit

>so many people using 1280x1024 when that wasn't even a 4:3 resolution
Enjoy your stretched/skewed shit. 1280x960 was the correct resolution.

>play random 50+ rates lvl 255/150 cap servers while they last
those severs were pretty fun, used to play on a starwars themed one
mostly played maplestory

>I spent most of my time on mpogd.com "multiplayer online games directory" where I would search out new shit and play every free MMO you can think of.
my nigger, did that too. knight online, do online, ro, hero online

Windows XP (pirated)
P4 3.0 Ghz
ATI Radeon 9550
512 MB ram
1024x768
60Hz
100mb/s (But that will be later, in 2005)
Non-Online: Sea Dogs, Silent Storm, Colin McRae, Etherlords, Sudden Strike.
Online: MuOnline, Runescape, GunZ the Duel and some Miniclip robot wars stuff when I get the internet.
Also some obscure russian browser games too, like Berserk TCG.

Apps: Autoclicker, Paint, Windows movie maker, DC++ , ICQ, MSN (Later)

Oh, and btw, I still have it, and the rig still works, I only needed to change motherboard and burnt PSU.

>Adventure Quest

Shamed to admit, but I played it couple months ago.

>OS
Windows XP
>CPU
Some 4GHz Pentium 4 housefire
>Ram
Not sure, 1GB?
>Resolution and refresh rate
1024×1024 LCD, I think 60Hz?
>Internet speed
256Kbit ADSL
>Game
WoW
>Applications
Macromedia Flash MX2004

>Some 4GHz Pentium 4 housefire
doubt
>1024×1024 LCD, I think 60Hz?
doubt

Windows 98 and no internet. Games? basically:
youtube.com/watch?v=Ly-MLp2cngc
and this:
youtube.com/watch?v=O4Wu4yb0DMA (yes, it ran on win98)
Everything else? I have no idea.

FF to WinXP:
>dial up modem + client program to get it to work
>adventure quest, runescape, dragon fable, mechquest and a shit ton of other flash games
>single core AMD CPU
>2GB of RAM
>320GB HDD
Spent most of my time playing on consoles and watching cable TV to be honest.
Sega genesis -> PS2 -> Wii -> XBOX 360 -> 3DS

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Maybe it wasn't 4GHz but 2.4. Been a while.

Resolution was 1280 x 1024 I think, you are right about that. Or maybe 1024 x 768. The shitty FX5200 barely ran WoW at that resolution.

>OS,
Win98
>CPU,
Don't know
>RAM,
Don't know
>Resolution,
1024x768
>Refresh rate,
Don't know. Maybe 80hz
>Internet connection speed,
Don't know but it was ADSL
>Game(s) being currently ran,
Runescape, Neopets, Red Alert 2, The Sims 2, Zoo Tycoon, Roller Coaster Tycoon
Application(s) currently running?
MSN messenger
Some really outdated pirated photoshop
Some GBC emulator