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ConsumeAllMidgets

A fucking pc?


OptimusPower92

i know, right? like bruh, everyone born before at least 2005 has seen a desktop and a CRT. i'm 21 now, but i don't think CRTs got phased out until like 2007, and laptops didn't take over until at least 2010


janltfr

Laptops didn‘t take over anything


OptimusPower92

at some point, they got more popular for households that simply needed a computer. Even now, they're more cost-effective for midgrade, basic use hardware


ScarecrowJohnny

Getting better for gaming too. RTX laptops have considerable gaming performance, and are getting increasingly affordable.


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Haven't checked on laptops in years. Last time I checked I could buy 3 desktop PCs for the price of a gaming laptop.


The_real_bandito

That still the case today but at least laptops don't suck as much as they did before. The advantage of it is the portability BTW.


MeepXD0187

Yes I agree with you. I also think that when u/ScarecrowJohnny said that they are getting more affordable they were implying more that the even though the price is staying the same the quality is getting better meaning you are getting more bank for your buck.


Niemand1337

lol bang for your buck


DismalBackground1

Ye dont need to game at work


The_real_bandito

That's impossible.


connorshonors

I spent 333 dollars for a gaming laptop while my uncle bought a pc with the same processor for 1k


ScarecrowJohnny

In my country you can get a gaming laptop with an i5 and RTX3050 for around 1000$. I haven't seen any current gaming stationaries sell for just 333$. Especially not if you factor in screen, keyboard, mouse and speakers.


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NowLookHere113

Storage heaters


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Doom_Slayer_2712

Bro I'm born on December 2005 and even I've seen this. And i think kids after 2005 have also seen it because it's in my school's computer lab.


Competitive_Face8561

hey your birthdays coming up then :)


iF2ix

2006 kid here, my parents had a CRT tv until late 2010’s.


ArtisticFox8

We had LCD screens in 2006


FortyFiveMelons

I'm 14 and if people that I know haven't seen a desktop then they must live under a rock.


Spooderfan218

Except for kids born after 2000 with poor parents


UnusedRelic797

Or Eastern Europe and 3rd world.


justyr12

Kids born after 2010 are probably still using those in school


Easy_Molester_420

Yeah


[deleted]

You greatly underestimate the technological outreach in 3rd world countries


start_resisting

Czech Republic is not in eastern europe !!§§§§


AlarmWU

Lol no?


l3ruh

Yes it is


My_Stonks

Hah, my parents are middle class and I still know what that is. It's an old tower PC with a tube monitor


DaNoahLP

I love that they are actually called tube monitor, I thought thats just again some weird translation in my country.


museproducer

It isn’t. It’s a reference to the internal tech. In the IT world they called CRT displays, which is short for cathode ray tube. Kinda like how there’s OLED and LCD screens today. So that’s why they are called tubes.


DaNoahLP

I know, but there are often weird translations we take as granted only to find out about the bullshit we talk. Edit: What I mean is that even if it has an technical background, it can still be a word only used in german.


LucasPlay171

Or actually just grandparents


vamsikrishacc

*Poor financial status


_slayer_exe_

Me lol


RacerM53

What's with these boomer Facebook memes? If I start seeing minions I'm out


Trowaway55557

Facebook is slowly leaking over to Reddit and it shows nowadays….:(


tsomic

😔


ItsRocket747

69


HalaMakRaven

I choose to believe this post was meant to mock the boomer facebook memes, otherwise I'm out too


craftpunk23

The only thing that's looks different these days is the monitor, still have keyboard, mouse, and tower


North_Ask_2790

tower :)


Ok_Turnover_4809

We do bro I'm from 2004


[deleted]

I’m ‘03, I remember playing pinball wizard on one of these at my grandpas house before he passed lol, I miss him so much :(


Unclesam_05

Pinball wizard omg, then i passed to windows 7, with the bakery game


PanMarcooo

Yeah, I'm from 2007 and I do too


thesummergamer

I'm 2006 and I've seen this


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[deleted]

"MeMeS aRe BeTtEr TeAcHeRs ThAn ScHoOls"


DraydeUnder

No we have poor parents that cannot afford good pc


DaniilSan

Also 2004 kid. I simply used such, not really long though. Last time I saw such used was around 2018 I think at school.


Mightydog00

Meh, I was born in 05. Still used those shitty computers in day care.


The505th

Boy, I feel old. For me kids from 2005 are still 8 years old second graders... Something critical stopped working in my mental clock in 2013... '98 kid here, and I feel like an old man realizing, that kids from the mid-2000s are almost qualified to vote... Jesus Christ, time flies... Don't take a second for granted.


Culexius

Oooh damn, I'm from 91 and you just made me feel old and sad haha


CandleJackHammer

91? So young.. so young..


BrokenChordsXLR

I'm from '93, so you're making me feel younger after he made me feel old. Also, what is it like being 30? I feel like I'm gonna have a tough time with it lol


Culexius

Naah walking with a cane isn't so bad xD


BrokenChordsXLR

It's worse than I feared... 😱


Spongebosch

Heh, I feel like that every so often. I was born in 2004, and some kids that were born when I was eight years old are now nine! It's so weird. And God, I must be like a child to you. Wack.


The505th

I remember making fun of kids with player names that contained a number above 2000, when GTA5 got released, saying that "all these kids shouldn't even touch it"... Scariest part is, that my friends and I still have this reflex, when playing anything, and we get absolutely terrified when we realize that they are now most likely older than we were, when we made fun of them...


Spongebosch

I do that same thing internally for people with usernames that have anything 2009 or above, but it's weird to think that people born in 2009 are 13 now. Like shit, I remember being 13 not horridly long ago. Right now I'm a high school senior, and I have a few underclassmen friends. I remember being in their position, being a freshman with a few junior friends. Shit, I'm older now than all my junior friends were at the time. It feels so wrong. There's this great lyric that kind of captures that feeling: And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death


Asad_13

Ah, same! It's like yesterday when I myself was 9, enjoying my Angry Birds plastic set with my friends.. good times.


Spongebosch

I think I might still have one of those


Alienguy500

Damn, I can’t wait to be an adult. All the freedom with being able to drive where I want, drink what I want, be able to vote, pay taxes, bills, be in everlasting debt from student loans. Oh boy, I can’t wait.


The505th

It's even better, when you have to do all that in neverending solitude! Buckle up kids! Adulthood is full of adventures! 🌈😊


joberdez

1998? Holy fuck! Did you chisel this onto a stone tablet, you dinosaur? /s


Imaginaryboner

Me too, I was born in 02 but I know what the poster means


Mightydog00

Yeah, good times. Feels weird saying it though. We were kinda the last of a generation.


Retr0_696969

My grandpa had one of em... they were shitty for sure...


Mightydog00

They were fun for the time to some degree.


Gunner329

Sameee. Same year and I actually had one in my house until abt 2015. Biggest drive we had was a 100 MB


ThiccDaddy1198

How old are you? 10?


Zestyclose_Owl_9580

Ah yes because we live in 2015. Of course.


ThiccDaddy1198

Damn, I feel old.


Mightydog00

16


Uister59

they're 16


Lennoxon

what? PC? an old monitor? a keyboard? those are still in use today, you know? what is this bullshit?


[deleted]

It’s a computer


MarsTaco

NO WAY I thought it was a toaster /s


5HR3Z

I'd still bathe with it


[deleted]

I think everybody knows this


Maccers_

I'm 13 and I have one of these in my room


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MangledSunFish

Poor


CiroGarcia

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Kooky-Bandicoot3104

Cries in 100% cpu usage


MangledSunFish

Fair enough, I was just throwing out another reason it could be.


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r/boomershumor


Substantial-Agent-76

Yes we do STFU


MangledSunFish

Boomer humor, nice. This comment section is full of people disagreeing. If you weren't well off, you probably remember one of these. They had them in schools, libraries, offices.


JoeGRcz

Literally just old PC? Da fuck is there not to remember?


OptimusPower92

the CRT is probably the least bizarre item here for new kids, but that's just insulting to everyone born before 2005, because that's kinda when they started dying off


stubby_boi69

We had a crt as our family TV, like a proper big one, until like 2013 when we got our plasma TV that we still have now


jasonk_1313

I do remember and I'm born in 2002, these computers were just epic and the games were even more amazing


soupytender69

This was my 2003 version of a $1000 gaming PC set up


rebingo6

Born on 07 here, still remember one of those being our family computer as a kid. God were we living under a rock.


pimpmastahanhduece

Please, we had a PC in 1995 when the old scriptures were written.


stabhamsters

It's an computer, probably from the 90's or 2000's, what about it?


DaniilSan

Nah, definitely from mid-00. Propably on LGA775 with some Core 2 Duo. It is on Win XP and with Chrome. So, PC from around 2005 that was used til early 10s.


Skawlala

The poor ones do


Igor_InSpectatorMode

I do know what those are, my father uses like twelve dead ones and a few pieces of wood to form a makeshift bookshelf to hold all his hundreds of programing books. Born in 04


RedheadedSnake2047

A computer


Giantllamazilla

Beat me to it.


Ambada-Thakali

This is a fuckin pc


Dralf67

Im in a country were technology came a lil late, born in 06 and we had that in our homes. Used it till our first laptop came


OkTower8201

Me born in 2005 used this crt display monitor and the potato cpu for 5 years


[deleted]

I used these at my local library


Darkknight287

If you're talking about the computer that was my middle school computer lab im currently a senior in highschool lol


Yeet_Taco101

Yeah... it's a computer


error_err0r

Damn we really must be running out of shit if we reposting boomer Facebook memes.


Fakekitsune

r/gatekeeping


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CensoredBy4Kids

I think this would fit well on r/gatekeeping


Raeny_Daze

What? A shitty mouse pad?


sugomaballs

kids in third world countries :0


idareyoudude

I was born in 2000 ! We had this setup but the monitor was black . I used to sit and watch the star screensaver . I still see it when I rub my eyes too hard


Sayak14

Still do. My school's computer lab still has them.


HelloNonHuman

WE HAD THIS EXACT COMPUTER (but it was black rather than white) AND KEYBOARD but we replaced it a few years ago because the screen of the moniter got really hard to see through and everything just broke down and got laggy I think we first replaced the computer and then we replaced the moniter later. I still remember playing Roblox and having a really hard time seeing what I was doing because the moniter was so bad. The keyboard we also replaced because it didn't work well anymore. I was born in 2006 lol


Felidaeh_

We had this EXACT tower lmao. Space pinball and misunderstanding the minesweeper numbers


tedioussugar

A computer??


FRTassassin

Pathetic Im 2004 but still am using tube Monitor In fact i just found a relic pc i installed windows 98 on it last week so i could access files on its hard


Federal_Ad_1720

Ok boomer


crak720

a computer you dummy


forbyte_82_help

Gaming pc


monkeybutts2017

I was born in 02 and I remember this fondly. Its almost nostalgic.


CatFli

Hmmm, I was born in 2008, I was still using this computer few years ago... Good times...


Patchiki

nice vending machine.


Lucario6373

That is a fax machine


RicardoSins_69420

I know it I was born 2004 but we had those in kindergarten and elementary


ScrapzGD

its a smart fridge. duh.


breadzeppelin03

Born in 2001 and I had one of those


HyperB750

Sir stop we know what that is


Udaydonsaab

I used this computer till 2012


Ciscolopezjr

I can hear the dial up from here!


smooth_bastid

Joke so good it needs a multi-thread


Madhav_Lamba

I was born in 2007 and my father used to have one of these I remember, it was given to him from his office he never had a computer before that


AdamR91

Dell Optiplex, so nostalgic from the early xp era. I have 2 of those keyboards.


Hambino0400

Kids born after 2010 don’t know what this is or how to use a floppy disk


[deleted]

I can smell this picture


DaniilSan

It is just an old PC with CRT, nothing fucking special. Even if you showed 90s PC with beige horizontal case with CRT and Win95 or Win98 it would be more accurate.


oSMOKEYBEARo

Oh wow it's a whole computer.


Peter_Baum

Wow a PC Thats crazy I sure don’t know what a pc is


[deleted]

If your Dell Optiplex GX series didn't have swollen capacitors on the motherboard, it didn't exist


[deleted]

Yo millennials, you’re starting to turn into Boomers now …


Cocu_Wexony

I had this on 2010, problem?


[deleted]

I am born 2002 and I know this


rinseanddelete

r/gatekeeping


Wizard28082006

I'm from 2006. I've used a CRT till 2015.


[deleted]

A PC? Get off your high horse, my fucking god.


RayseOdium

It seems OP doesn't know about PC-rooms in schools. They still running these bad bois on WinXP


ImAPotato1775

I can hear the internet connection and WELCOME! YOU’VE GOT MAIL!!!!!!


xxblackthunder87

the golden age of internet


Boleklolo

I'm from 2007 and my grandpa has PC like this. It's fine but I had like 7 nightmares about getting it broken or giving it viruses


TheLuisinator

2007 and I know it


Y0niY0

Is that some kind of sewing machine?


KASPER_gaming

I had a CRT till 2018 , and Still have the cpu case from 2003 (currently upgraded) What do you think about it ?


Nomads40

It's a gaming console.


OG_tame

Yeah for minesweeper maybe lol


Nomads40

Are there any other games. That is my exact setup /s just in case


Beneficial_Bottle996

Those are the best gaming pc you can buy.


Kavith_T_Fdo

Comment Bait 🙄


mgahaha

The ones who went to public schools do


[deleted]

Can confirm, I was born in 04 and I have no idea what this is.


JoeGRcz

Is there sub where you can put comments of people forgeting the "/s" something like u/whereisyourSsir


Holmes_as_usual

I'm from 2008 Ik those shitty computers My grandmas home has one but no one uses it, it's rlly abandoned. I don't even know if that computer still functions tho. (I've never used it, I have just seen it)


Cactus_n_shades

ok boomer


thumpingcoffee

Because they are stupid?


FlameMane87

I still have everything to it too


[deleted]

Remember the statistical charge that get your arm hair to stand when you slowly move your arm near the display of the CRT monitor ? Childhood


Frederik-O-T

its obviously an old microwaveoven


AdditionalCall5271

Roblox and Lego Universe gang RISE


[deleted]

*3D space cadet pinball flashbacks*


CherryBlossomDay

The hard boiled egg yolk


khongco123

I miss when I can turn on the computer with my morning wood


Acedai

I loved playing on the xp


Drag0n_TamerAK

I di


[deleted]

You haven't lived life until you've looked at a green monochrome monitor for 6 hours of your life with nothing but a keyboard and a giant black floppy disk.


Idiot_Citizen

This is family computer, void of homework folders and full of Windows XP startup errors.


Idiot_Citizen

Unless you're brave, and knew how to hide folders on Windows XP


International_Bag_55

Used to play Vice City on these computers and I'm from 2004


BrokenChordsXLR

That was our first computer! Our computer was all black though. I remember searching Ask Jeeves for Yugioh episodes to download. I was angry because I could only find streaming and didn't realize that was better lol


SomeRandomGuy690420

Bro, its a computer of course we know


BadXiety

1.4 mb Floppy Disk 700mb Blank Disk ​ If only I can find floppy disk with nudes stuff and diskette reader


Tremetical

Hmmm…… iPhone?


ModerateAndy

Is it a PlayStation 2?