The internet is a perfect example of this for instance. Its been in development since the late 60s but it wasn't publicly available to anyone known as the "World Wide Web" (ie
www.website.com) until about 1994 and yet when you look at it back in 94-95, hell even in 98, it used to be a lot different compared to how things are now, and information always gets updated right? The internet always updates and improves, but just how fast would people really consider an update to be an update?
Sep7agon is a good example of this too. The forum was in the alpha stage when it first started or "vanilla Sep7agon" as I'd like to call it, where the text was actually in black as you're writing your post and the background was pure white, I know this because regardless of the account creation date on my account here, I did originally join on September 12, 2014, in fact I still have a screenshot I took back in the day when my YouTube button wasn't showing up:
Compared to that screenshot, this website now has a skin on its own forum writing editor right? Pretty modern compared to the screenshot I posted which was kinda bare bones at the time, but just how modern is modern really?
Even the like button now is different:
Disclaimer to staff
This is the only image I have of Vanilla Sep7agon when looking at the posts, I know this is from Anarchy and apparently leaking Anarchy content is a big no no, but as far as I'm concerned, Kinder isn't even active anymore so that rule can be bent. Otherwise I will call bullshit for any warning/ban because of one photo of mine that I never shared publicly got out somehow into Anarchy by someone I didn't know who exactly at the time but do now, and in turn leaked onto The Flood and Sep7agon boards even to this day of this year, so don't give me that pep talk about leaking Anarchy content from over 2 years ago, because I'm not breaking the rule I'm bending it, just like how others can also bend it. Also, this is Nuka's screenshot that Nuka sent me back then. Anyway, on with my thread...
And this is just Sep7agon. Let's go as far back as Windows Operating Systems...
And this is the latest OS right now, 2nd version even, and probably the highest edition available, which you won't normally find for purchase at any computer place perhaps, probably because my version of Windows 10 is intended more so for IT business rather than for home use, but I could use the extra security and features. This is neither Windows 10 Home or Pro which you can get via the free upgrade. Its Enterprise. I got a bargain deal on getting Windows 10 Enterprise vs buying a volume license from Microsoft for Windows 10 Enterprise, like I got it for stupid cheap. This was back when I had the money so don't worry about how I got it, thing is its legit, and if there are any skeptics I can prove that's what I'm running, and if the screens don't convince you, just ask Cheat since I'm very sure he has info on my computer because I use Firefox, at least that's the rumor I heard where if you use Firefox to get on here, Cheat knows your computer. Anyway, is this considered obsolete already?
Heck lets go back even further.
Some of you guys still use Windows 8 or 8.1 even due to the irrational fear of MS and the NSA collecting all your data and whatnot. Guess what? You're already fucked. Every Windows OS is closed source, you don't know what kind of proprietary code MS can have in their previous versions even, heck we don't even see what's being processed in the background at least 98% of the time, unless its a program that we opened, so if you're that paranoid about it I would start using Linux Mint because with that you can not only see the open source code, you have complete access to it and can change it even, but Linux is not Windows, and if you don't want Linux... get a Mac... Which is also closed source but should calm your paranoia a bit.
But back to Windows OS's, here's something that I'd assume at least 98% of you decide to stay with as your PC OS:
This is pretty much the new Windows XP for you guys, you stick with it because it works and its what you fall back on, but even looking it at an appearance level, doesn't it already look dated? I mean it came out in 2009, and if that's considered dated, I'm not done, like I said in the title this is quite a long read. I'm skipping the OS in 2007 by MS because it was a complete fucking mistake, and I wish both my brother-in-law and sister would at least move to Windows 7. Its so bad I'm not even going to say its name, but if you've used it before like I have, you know exactly which OS I'm talking about and how many headaches the fucking thing gave you let alone made your PC run like utter shit not even letting you play half of your fucking music...Okay I'm getting sidetracked, lets move on. Just don't say the V word. <_<
Yeah I'm already experiencing Nostalgia with Windows XP, considering I was 8-10 in the early 2000s and a teenager by the mid 2000s. If you're still using this, I hope you're using the 64 bit version on the lastest service pack with at least having Avast being your anti virus to protect it, because support for the longest operating system in use ended exactly yesterday 2 years ago, and so many businesses and companies including Bank of America until recently was using XP on their ATMs before MS decided to abandon it, so if you are going to use XP, its already outdated but I'd still say just as usable as Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 so I wouldn't tell you that its at dinosaur level yet, that is unless you're running the base OS and not any of the service packs in 32-bit, then you're running a dinosaur. Browsers like Firefox still support Windows XP so you're good, but MS and the majority of the world considers it oudated, and Windows 7 extended Support by MS is going to end in 2020 so we still have quite a way to go. The V word is going to lose its extended support by MS next year, and it makes me wish it already lost it. It was such a mistake it should have never seen the light of day.
So Windows XP is fairly outdated and now considered to be old by many people, to the point where the early versions are considered to be dinos. Well if you think Windows XP is old, the next OS is going to really change your mind. Forget ME, Forget 2000, Hell forget 98 even, considering they all look the same or similar when compared to...
Holy shit. This is the operating system that set the standard for modern Windows Operating System's today. The last time I used Windows 95 on a now really old computer that no longer exists in my home was back when I was 5 in 1998 shortly before my brother decided to get a new computer with Windows 98, this was also the age where I begin to tinker and screw with Windows, because unlike now where you can just easily turn off your computer by pushing the power button, back then you had to go to the Start menu and hit shutdown, and a message would pop up in orange saying "It is now safe to turn off your computer" because it wouldn't just switch off, by that point it was safe to press the power button. I made the mistake of not doing that to the family computer and let's just say my brother was pretty pissed at me about it for doing that since he bought the computer, that pretty much taught me to always shut down using the start menu, and even though I know now I can just press the power button on my tower, I still do it the old fashioned way by going to the start menu and shutting it down that way, only difference is it switches off automatically compared to back then. This was also the age where we still used Floppy disks
This was before flashdrives/pendrives were even invented let alone the invention of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and now we're pretty much on the cloud when it comes to storage.
Anyway, if you're actually running Windows 95 on your primary computer, and I don't mean running it on a virtual machine, I mean that is your main OS and nothing else, then I have no idea how you're even on Sep7agon right now.
Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, they're dinosaurs now. I would be surprised if they can load Sep7agon let alone the rest of today's internet without any issues.
And I'm going to stop there with the Windows OS's because if I continue on with Windows NT, and Windows 1-3.0, MS DOS and so on... I would need to write an entire book and get paid for that, not write something that long and constructive on an internet forum, which brings us back to forums...
Just how obsolete is our style of forums? Bungie considered it rather obsolete when they gave up their old layout for the new clusterfuck they have and consider that to be the modern approach while we are considered to be obsolete, but it isn't even that either. Forums like this won't even attract most teenagers today, modern social sites like Facebook, Twitter, hell even Reddit is where most would rather go, and Bungie since they're trying to keep up with the times. Hell, I overheard someone's teenage daughter telling them that Facebook is for old people, so by the standards of most teenagers, Facebook is already old and obsolete. YouTube has been around since 2005 and since that has gone through so many bullshit changes, its still somehow current.
So with all of this said, just how outdated is our software let alone hardware? Why do we decide that certian hardware and software is already considered outdated, much like how the iPhone 6 is now considered "useless" and the 6s is the way to go and so on so forth. Who are we to decide that factor when the current technology we have right now at this exact moment in this exact time could possibly be outdated within a day? In other words never be in dated, technology has come very far since most of us were even alive and yet we're struggling to keep up with it and have already reached a gap in design and features in my opinion. I mean, just back to Windows OS's MS said that Windows 10 is the last official release they plan on doing and it will be updated from now on in the future, have we really reached that cap? At least with Windows? And even design wise, I feel like we are going backwards, back to simplicity instead of what was once considered modern in the early 2000s, and back in the 90s when we didn't even have a proper UI.
Honestly we don't even know what kind of technology the United States government has now, for all we know whatever they have could mean what we have now is beyond planned obsolescence even. So if you made it this far, what do you guys think? Is our technology already ready to go to the dumpster the moment it is out? What are we even going to have next that's going to blow forums and current computing into the stone age even? Its crazy how much shit has changed and will continue to change throughout the years to come.
Thanks for reading if you managed to read all of this. I sincerely appreciate it if you did, if not that's fine, not everyone here likes to read long threads so I don't blame you. I worked pretty hard on this thread making sure its all ready and proof read this myself many times hitting the preview button making sure its all good, and I know its a long read but at least its a constructive thread (I hope.)
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