2001 was a busy year Apple was popping
off Napster and Sega meanwhile threw in their respective towels we got three new
game consoles one from a brand new Challenger scientists found this little
guy and America had her worst day ever
and for those of us who still remember all of that Windows XP holds a special
place in our hearts but was it really that good or was it just better than the
Millennium Edition and Vista dumpster fires that book ended it to find out we
gathered some of our young and young at heart friends to see if they could
navigate Microsoft's most iconic Windows
ever there's lots more where that came from but before we get to it there's one
more thing that came out in 2001 this segue well not this one exactly one like
it wa does this thing even work not even a little we're still going to get to our
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chalk full of important Milestones it was the first consumer version of
Windows to be based on the more stable NT Kel it was the first to require
Microsoft product activation online and it was the first major overhaul of the
start menu since it was introduced back in Windows 95 it was also the first
Windows to use graphical effects like Alpha compositing and drop Shadows to
pretty up the interface and it introduced clear type for better
readability on LCD displays which were
just starting to approach affordability for the home user there were also big
changes to the control panel Windows Explorer networks and internet
connectivity multilanguage support and multimedia tools many of which have
changed a fair bit since then so let's
see if our test subjects are able to navigate our challenges I'm Katie and
I'm 18 years old I am McIntyre and I am
17 years old ah hi I'm Elijah Junior writer here I am 26 years old and I have
actually never used Windows XP I've never even used Windows 7 whoa Windows
XP is running on this display man I
haven't used this since like 2001 I remember it was uh my favorite operating
system all the way until probably Windows 10 you know the funny thing is
it actually looks really alike like Windows hasn't actually changed all that
much WoW the local area connection with the little two like monitors or whatever
oh my God I forgot all about this stuff oh my God is the control panel the good
one oh I can't search anymore no I have to actually hit the search button I want
you to set up the screen saver where is it can I search for it try what was it
called again probably pictures oh gosh this is bad oh my oh my
gosh it's right there oh that one for
sure oh that oh my God I forgot about all the screen savers oh where's the
like pipes 3D pipes
yeah all right well properties obviously
desktop screen saver wait does this have
the the pipes hell yeah there you go it
has been applied so I think the first person to go to properties to do that oh
where did everyone else go everyone El went contr
the dog I forgot about the dog I remember Merlin yeah Merlin was dope who
else Courtney Earl I don't remember Courtney or Earl I mostly just remember
Merlin and Rover uh 100% using Merlin
switch why didn't he switch oh he's going away and then he comes in what an
animation oh my God uh probably my favorite thing that I used to do in XP
was turn everything off so that I could get higher FPS in halflife and Counter
Strike
I took it sweet time all right my CD's in now we need to open it does this
thing even open I don't think I've ever even touched one of these things I'm
trying not to break it I have no clue
okay now it's I've just gotten a bunch of options of different audio I can play
the audio copy it play it from different I
think apps I think I don't know how to do it no there's no copy just this is
enable and disable selected tracks is there anything C
right um oh yeah copy music oh there
okay oh this will be easy I want track
one and I want track six and I want
track nine let's do one and
24 wait now the 24 is gone okay this makes no sense okay now they're all gone
now they're all unchecked what oh I can hear it it's oh the high pitch is
actually really annoying it's doing a some sort of coil wine of some sort well
it sounds like coil wine I don't know it's actually coil wine but like it it's
that type of sound is it done holy crap this takes forever I
could probably Google this CD faster on
YouTube go to a youtube. mpp3 ripper
don't do that by the way and then rip it faster than this this is crazy hey I got
my my three songs all right good work now I want you to make an audio CD with
those tracks insert blank SE okay well
conveniently there there's a BL CD right
here why are you so BR on it it's a CD
they're they scratch like these do they
oh okay now it's copying to the CD nice
first one's done this is mine here you go there we
go did you do I I did 15 and 16 okay so
oh yeah yes sweet I got my own CD now
right just clicking your drags no it's not click and drag oh copy insert blank
CD I did a little
closer huh they look the exact same what
do you mean look closer at the drives one says LG one says DVD is it
because this one says SEC your disc or super
multi yeah the super multi is what you're after okay
copy holy this is the fast version
that's crazy to me dude this would drive me like if my Windows 10 or Windows 11
computer was acting this slow I would immediately be reinstalling I'd be like
something's wrong I forgot how long you'd put a CD in and you'd like rip it
and then you'd walk away for a while cuz it actually takes some time what a
process we just don't even do this anymore wow I get to open it I get the
privilege sheesh
amazing smells like 2,000 baby which
one's what it should say on them select the programs you want to
install I see it okay okay oh there it
goes it's installing oh insert Microsoft Suite disc 2 and then why do it ask me
to do dis 2 I yeah back in the day and
this is after floppies too cuz you used to have to do this with floppies as well
where you'd get like a stack of floppies and then you'd install them dis by dis
and then CDs came out and they could hold a lot more information and that was great but you still had to do a lot of
things one by one I remember installing Diablo I and you could skip part of the
install but you wouldn't get the cinematics cuz they were all on like dis
3 or whatever all right let's see if this just Auto launches it did setup wow
this may take several minutes that's very true it would take even longer if
it was on a hard drive with which everyone had back
then all programs holy crap this is the
worst organization I've ever seen in my entire
life could not find streets and trips on this machine oh disc on this machine oh
do I need to oh okay what the hell is the point of
installing the program if I have to reinsert the disc
anyways so it'll install what it needs to run
oh is that just because like people didn't have hard drives like big enough
back then probably a lot ofes yeah okay
we did it wait how do I oh God I just H oh I
can search lonus no that wouldn't work cuz
it's what's our address right here would
be the office that doesn't look anymore yeah it
does not look like this I found the office let's go all right now let's doc
Linus his exact address is I want to go
to cheatcc.com cheat Cod Central because back then you could actually cheat in
video games without like hacking wow member of the week this guy I don't know
who he is but sure oh my God GameCube free CCC email DVD PlayStation codes you
go to codes and you'd find codes and you'd enter them in you'd have to search by oh my God you'd search be like I want
to play I want the crash band cheat codes and then you scroll down oh yeah
cool borders 4 man this
sucks is this because we're using web archive or is this how long it would
take to load a website back then little call Little okay there's an Athlon
xp800 is that oh and a motherboard so that's a
combo 160 CAD for a motherboard CPU
combo that's pretty good A Broadband
router
60 gig hard drive $140 Canadian
dollars uh do you want to not be able to install the newest Call of Duty here's
$140 have a good day that's crazy you play a lot of
pitball nope played once in an arcade
machine in a bowling alley but that's about it this was like the hot new game
that came out with this version of Windows Bas yeah that's pretty
sad yeah it's I got a new computer you
want to play play Pinball with me here we go he was right here or is this a
girl why' you hit her no I didn't hit
her I'm right where the arrow oh yeah now I hit her my bad yo GTA 3 no max
pain I love Max pain yo I want what's this monitor is it 1920 yeah hell yeah I
want anti aling off yeah High settings everything's on high
let's see how this game runs baby oh dude this is like 30 60 oh God my frames
dropped oh God there's another
one such a cool game dude this game is sick man it makes me
respect where we're at now for operating
systems I think like even even just the simple things like hitting Windows and
search or the load times for things you
know as much as I reminisce and like to think I miss XP
it's really easy to just fly through Windows 11 there's a lot of like
submenus that I originally was like oh why' they get rid of all these but once
you get used to it it's so much faster looking back then Windows XP really was
a huge step in the path toward modern Windows 95 and '98 deserve some credit
they had vastly more usable interfaces than what came before them but they did
nothing to solve the issues that were inherent with the dos-based reality that
was behind behind the curtains 2000 addressed a lot of the stability and
security concerns thanks to its business grade NT kernel but it was only intended
for business users and was priced to match so it fell to XP to bring those
benefits to the average user and aside
from just stability there are glimpses of the future all over Windows XP the
start menu moved away from the monolithic all programs list in favor of
highlighting your most used app it had improved search meaning you didn't have
to go digging for things quite so often and it had improved networking and
internet features that were Central to ushering in the always connected world
we live in now where most of what we do on a computer is in a web browser say
with Wikipedia rather than loaded onto
our machine with a disc like uh Microsoft and Carta speaking of
mind-blowing things this will probably blow our younger viewers minds but
thumbnails slideshows and the task pain those didn't exist before Windows XP and
while auto run wasn't new there was finally enough functionality in the
operating system and bundled apps for it to be genuinely useful as we saw in our
music ripping and our disc burning challenges so XP you know what you stood
up to the test of time even if your usability could have been a little
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