Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20151224121621/@comment-3547390-20160222071825

My memories on my early computer history are rather weird, they blend together. I was playing Thief 2 when I was six, which would be 2001, which makes sense since that was the era of a lot of my early game memories. Windows XP was released that same year. I don't know if we got a new computer around that time or what happened, but I do not recall a period of history before I was on Windows XP.

My mother is responsible for a lot of my early computer knowledge. My father was working, which meant he got the equipment but didn't feel like devoting time to explaining how to work it, meaning my mother learned how to use it. Her abilities, while rather basic, were the foundation for me. It took me years to learn simple keyboard shortcuts even existed, I grew up right clicking and copying. To this day I prefer simplicity on some matters, such as using Windows Explorer to manage my files instead of a third party file manager like Total Commander (which my father favored).

Heh, I think I had an era where I would get all the different PC enhancement software. I was all about trying to improve the computer even if the improvement was totally impractical, such as that 3d desktop which caused Windows to slow to a crawl, made things a pain to navigate or get used to, and made it almost impossible to use any high demanding software such as games. One day I will need to check out some titles from my childhood I could never play due to the games being so resource demanding. Aliens vs Predator 2 (Aka the one game I was always hoping my computer would be powerful enough to play), Lego Rock Raiders (I remember really loving this game as a kid the one time it worked, then it failed on me and I could never get it functional again), and Half Life (or it might have been an ignorance of Dosbox) are all examples of this. It was an amazing break through when my GPU and CPU was updated enough, so Doom 3 actually functioned without constant freezing on the lowest settings, that I could actually play Spiderman: The Movie.

Yeah, Netscape sounds familiar, but at the time IE was stable and supported by Microsoft, plus put with Windows. All this means that it was more practical just to stay with the default browser.