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

Princess Alice · 2012-12-13 12:40:40

Windows 3.1

Vriska · 2012-12-13 12:41:05

Pretty sure it was Windows 95.

Tre · 2012-12-13 12:44:29

Windows Me.

Princess Alice · 2012-12-13 12:45:29

^ I'm so sorry...

ProfessorGator · 2012-12-13 12:45:32

As far as I remember, Windows 95.

Corporal Forsythe · 2012-12-13 12:47:07

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

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

Probably 3.0 or 3.1, something like that.

Corporal Forsythe · 2012-12-13 12:57:50

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

either 3.0 or 3.1

lee4hmz · 2012-12-13 12:59:37

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

Windows 95.

Ace Rimmer · 2012-12-13 15:16:48

Windows 3.0

glennmagusharvey · 2012-12-13 15:18:43

3.1

Toolsie · 2012-12-13 15:38:37

Windows 95

RocketRunner · 2012-12-13 16:39:52

Win95, I think?

Imipolex G · 2012-12-13 16:46:39

Looking at the very first version of Windows is bizarre.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-12-13 17:05:31

Windows 95.

RocketRunner · 2012-12-13 17:49:05

^^REVERSI!

Bunny · 2012-12-13 18:00:07

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

XP.

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Princess Alice · 2012-12-14 03:49:45

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

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

Princess Alice · 2012-12-15 00:03:41

Definitely noticing a trend here...

Tachyon · 2012-12-15 00:09:05

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

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

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

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

Bob. Not joking.

Tachyon · 2012-12-15 01:19:23

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

Windows XP

Fossilmaiden · 2012-12-15 08:37:53

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'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

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.

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

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