THE STARTUP CHIME

Don't mind me I'm just travelling back to 2002

I C O N I C

Here's Windows XP in 4K glory with the silver theme (best theme don't @ me)

@Eramdam winxp looks really fucking good at large resolutions with the grey 98 theme

@er1n yes, if you ignore the blurry-ass wallpaper ofc

@Eramdam lmao yeah

i'm talking about this theme, tho
first time i rdp'd into this machine from my laptop i was like HOLY SHIT

@er1n oh yeah the win classic theme is still dope

nerdery

ok I need to connect this thing to Internet tho

turns out the VM has access but:

- IE can't connect to anything at all
- apparently you need to turn off some TLS stuff to make it work https://wink.messengergeek.com/t/if-you-are-new-here-read-this-if-you-get-error-80048821-on-msn-7-5-windows-xp/5072

[hacker voice] I'm in

@Eramdam omg what is this sorcery?????? 🔮

@omgheatherjana Virtual machines!

@Eramdam ah, i ran a mirror-drive copy of XP on my iMac a few years ago but i've since just bitten the bullet and switched back to a Windows machine. i'd slap a baby for a copy of XP tho. was there ever a better OS? methinks not.

@omgheatherjana hahaha :D I'm mainly booting this baby back for the maximum nostalgia effect of connecting to MSN.