{"id":177,"date":"2010-01-09T21:09:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T02:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djdan.hopto.org\/dan\/?p=177"},"modified":"2010-01-09T21:09:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T02:09:33","slug":"nostalgia-windows-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia: Windows 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I tried to install Windows 98 on the oldest laptop of mine. It didn&#8217;t work, it gave an error, &#8220;Insufficient system memory&#8221;. Funny, I had 2GB of RAM&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1759.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-178\" title=\"Windows 98 Setup\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1759-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Windows 98 Setup\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1759-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1759-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1760.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-179\" title=\"Drivers\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1760-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Drivers\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1760-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1760-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1761.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-180\" title=\"Computer Type\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1761-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Computer Type\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1761-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1761-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After all, it is a laptop. Why doesn&#8217;t Windows XP ask these questions? Maybe it just knows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1762.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-181\" title=\"Web TV for Windows\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1762-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Web TV for Windows\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1762-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1762-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if it&#8217;s any better than Justin TV?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1763.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-182\" title=\"Dial-up Server\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1763-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Dial-up Server\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1763-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1763-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dial-up server!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1764.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-183\" title=\"Country Selection\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1764-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Country Selection\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1764-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1764-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1766.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-184\" title=\"Time Remaining\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1766-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Time Remaining\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1766-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1766-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>23 minutes remaining, no, I mean, 14 minutes, no, I mean, 3 hours 27 minutes!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1768.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-185\" title=\"NOSTALGIA\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1768-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"NOSTALGIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1768-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HPIM1768-1024x763.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I miss this&#8230; Sort of, not really. It&#8217;s so much nicer to have it all shut down on its own.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a video of it trying, and failing, to boot, however, bad quality, and not all that important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I tried to install Windows 98 on the oldest laptop of mine. It didn&#8217;t work, it gave an error, &#8220;Insufficient system memory&#8221;. Funny, I had 2GB of RAM&#8230; After all, it is a laptop. Why doesn&#8217;t Windows XP ask these questions? Maybe it just knows. I wonder if it&#8217;s any better than Justin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[70,86,136],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-software","tag-laptop","tag-nostalgia","tag-windows-98"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danjoannis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}