First version of Windows you ever used, because Centie's curious, that's why

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• Vriska

  2012-12-13 12:41:05

  8luh 8luh.

  Pretty sure it was Windows 95.
  
• Tre

  2012-12-13 12:44:29

  
  

  Windows Me.
• Princess Alice

  2012-12-13 12:45:29

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  ^ I'm so sorry...
• ProfessorGator

  2012-12-13 12:45:32

  Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."

  As far as I remember, Windows 95.
• Corporal Forsythe

  2012-12-13 12:47:07

  Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.

  X Windows HEH

  
  

  oh that deserves another heh, this time with emphasis

  
  

  HEH

  
  

  I kid. Windows 3.1
• Princess Alice

  2012-12-13 12:48:16

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Funny, I almost put "Microsoft Windows" because I figured you and Lee would have been using computers since before Microsoft's complete domination of the consumer market.
• Obā-san

  2012-12-13 12:49:08

  
  

  Windows 95, I have fond memories of my mom teaching me like loads of keyboard shortcuts.
  
• Justice4243

  2012-12-13 12:53:19

  READ MY CROSS SHIPPING-FANFICTION, DAMMIT!
  
  i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
  

  Probably 3.0 or 3.1, something like that.
• Corporal Forsythe

  2012-12-13 12:57:50

  Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.

  When it comes to windows, though, my favorite look is still the stock magenta style that FVWM comes with.  If I could stick with that running the apps I like, I would from here on out.  

  
  
• Imipolex G

  2012-12-13 12:59:24

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  either 3.0 or 3.1
  
• lee4hmz

  2012-12-13 12:59:37 edited 2012-12-13 13:00:50

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Oh man, I miss FVWM. Memories of my first Unix PC, an IBM PC 350 I had for school in 1995.

  
  

  As for Microsoft Windows? Either 3.0 or 3.1. Before 1990, Windows was something of a mythical beast; few people had seen it, and even fewer seemed to have a copy.
• Fossilmaiden

  2012-12-13 14:53:59

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  Windows 95.
  
• Ace Rimmer

  2012-12-13 15:16:48

  Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

  Windows 3.0
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2012-12-13 15:18:43

  3.1
• Toolsie

  2012-12-13 15:38:37

  ಠ_ಠ

  Windows 95
• RocketRunner

  2012-12-13 16:39:52

  Win95, I think?
  
• Imipolex G

  2012-12-13 16:46:39

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Looking at the very first version of Windows is bizarre.
  
  
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2012-12-13 17:05:31

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Windows 95.
• RocketRunner

  2012-12-13 17:49:05

  ^^REVERSI!
• Bunny

  2012-12-13 18:00:07

  Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit

  95, the best windows
• sunn wolf

  2012-12-13 18:31:11

  95
• thenamelesssamurai

  2012-12-13 18:33:54

  
  

  Windows XP
  
• Spacey

  2012-12-13 22:52:22

  i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

  XP.
• Unknown

  2012-12-13 22:54:12

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• Princess Alice

  2012-12-14 03:49:45

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I had one or two games that ran on DOS, but being 5 I wasn't allowed to actually use DOS. I was just allowed to double-click the little batch file in Program Manager.

  
  

  These games were ancient even at the time; I only had them because they were the only games we could find on floppy disks in 1996 and Mother's work computer didn't have a CD-ROM drive.
• Füschlatz

  2012-12-14 23:43:40

  
  

  Windows 95. I didn't actually notice anything different when I started using Windows 98, but then again I was only 5 or 6 at the time...
• Tachyon

  2012-12-14 23:45:02

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  95, I think.  I don't actually remember very clearly.
  
• Princess Alice

  2012-12-15 00:03:41

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Definitely noticing a trend here...

  
  

  
• Tachyon

  2012-12-15 00:09:05

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  A trend which more or less seems to correspond directly to heaper age, with a couple exceptions.
  
• Princess Alice

  2012-12-15 00:11:50

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Well, the thing I find really interesting (and that graph of course doesn't show it) is how wide the 95 window (pun totally intended) is.

  
  

  The people who said 95 range from late teens all the way up to late 20s...
• Corporal Forsythe

  2012-12-15 00:21:52

  Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.

  95 got a lot of mileage for an operating system. So did 98, but that wasn't by design. 
• Princess Alice

  2012-12-15 00:23:49

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  95's UI, for all its quirkiness, was a pretty solid design, so I'm not surprised it had as much longevity as it did.

  
  

  One thing I genuinely didn't expect, though, is that nobody in this thread has said 98. I figured some of the Heapers born in the mid-90s would have had that as their first...
• criminalscum

  2012-12-15 01:10:35 edited 2012-12-15 01:10:54

  Bob. Not joking.
  
• Tachyon

  2012-12-15 01:19:23

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  We had that, briefly, and long after everyone else had determined it was no good.
  
  When I was a kid I thought Bob was the best because I could have my own room and decorate it.
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2012-12-15 04:01:13

  What's Bob?
  
• Füschlatz

  2012-12-15 04:05:31

  
  

  Microsoft's failed attempt at creating an operating system that didn't have so much a desktop as it had a virtual room that you could decorate and such.
• Misery

  2012-12-15 08:33:43

  The sadness will last forever.

  Windows XP
  
• Fossilmaiden

  2012-12-15 08:37:53 edited 2012-12-15 08:38:40

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  Bob technically wasn't an OS though, it was just an interface with some inbuilt programs.
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2012-12-15 08:39:15

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  I've always used Macs, but my dad has a Hewlett-Packard laptop. Don't know the OS, but it's recent...
• glennmagusharvey

  2012-12-15 09:10:14

  Does the bottom left corner say "start" next to the windows logo?
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2012-12-15 09:25:51

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Yes, if I recall correctly.
• glennmagusharvey

  2012-12-15 11:48:18

  Is the bar at the bottom of the screen a grey bar or a blue bar?
  
• splash

  2012-12-15 15:33:04

  Vriska said:

  Pretty sure it was Windows 95.