Don't forget Winblows

Another oldie

"If you play the Win98 CD backwards, it summons Satan. It's worse when you play it forwards - it installs Windows"

Ah, good times... :-)

I had to reinstall win98 so many times I still remember the pirate key k4hvdq9tj96crx9c9g68rq2d3 by heart

good times :)

I guess I was more of the FCKGW generation. :)

IIRC with Windows 98 you could just use any product key you had on as many machines as you wanted since there was no activation or real phoning home capabilities. So most likely your whole friend group would be using the same serial that was copied off your uncle's old gateway.

Ah, FuCK Gates, William.

I think there were at least three other commonly used codes, but this one was by far the most popular.

I'm pretty sure 000-0000000 worked (at least on windows 95)

FuCKinG Windows

Sounds like hard work. Didn't 11111-1111111 work?

I have a "quotes.txt" from slashdot days with some MS jabs in it:

> Last week, I left my 2 XP CDs on my dashboard in plain view. Someone broke into my car and left 2 more.

> The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.

> A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine

Juvenile some might say, but they still makes me giggle.

Greetings fellow old person. You totally took me back to 2000. And here’s me thinking I was the only one harvesting pithy quotes from /.

I always loved the “doesn’t suck vacuum”, but amazingly never came across the Win98 CD line. Love it.

> > The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.

"The only Microsoft product that doesn't suck is the Microsoft vacuum cleaner."

That's what I remember. And true to this day.

Thanks for making me feel old. I remember reading slashdot a lot and also freshmeat.net to find new interesting software. I don't think I like the modern software experience, by comparison. It's all shoddy rehashing of the client/server model, where the client is crap and slow, and so is the server.

Outbreak Express!

It was "Outhouse Express" and "GruntPage" for me in the late 90s. I still use these for software I find particularly irksome, for example Conscrewence from AtlASSian.

It was always "Microshit" to me

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In french we have Windaube (pronunced Windob).

Daube is a slang word for something of low quality.

> Daube is a slang word for something of low quality.

Which is fun because it's also a really delicious dish from Provence (south of France) made with beef that has been marinated for multiple hours in red wine.

in Italy it was WinZozz (zozzo = dirty)

In Polish we used to say "Winzgroza" (win terror)

I always like Wangblows