The oldest picture saved on your computer

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Rambling Robot: Sep 13, 2011; Duggar Fan Club Superstar #1 LOL

Kidney Stone posted:

1st. January 1999.

This cat, Diego, was killed by a couple of Amstaf's in 2004.

RIP Diego

(can't really contribute to this thread, since I keep my pictures on external harddrives, and there are too many to count, it's a mess).

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pfs Write: Jun 29, 2014; get/save/remove

why do you paint the case like a game cube?

# ? Feb 28, 2015 19:28

Bum the Sad: Aug 25, 2002; Hell Gem

Found these from 1998, these are my legit oldest images

Only thing from 1999

2000 is exclusively Everquest screenshots I took

Things start to pick up in 2001

Bum the Sad fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Feb 28, 2015

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Rambling Robot: Sep 13, 2011; Duggar Fan Club Superstar #1 LOL

Bum the SadBum the Sad, 1999 sure did suck.

# ? Feb 28, 2015 20:29

mandatory lesbian: Dec 18, 2012

the first image i saved off 4 chan from back in 2006

i remember cause it was a new computer and i had lost a lot of poo poo from a hard drive crashing

# ? Feb 28, 2015 20:44

Waltzing Along: Jun 14, 2008; There's only one
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forbidden lesbian posted:

4 chan

Well, that explains a lot.

# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:03

Dr. Quarex: Apr 18, 2003; I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

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All right. October 16, 1987. I think this is going to be the best I can do, as it is literally the only file from 1987 I seem to have at all.

As is the style of the time, of course I had to find a special viewer to even open the file to be able to then screenshot it and upload it to IMGur.

Pretty nice work though, my ANSIs were never this good even with the much better tools available by the 1990s.

I wonder if there is even any way to open all these stupid .PIC files from the late 1980s/early 1990s now? IrfanView cannot do it SO NOTHING CAN (I realize they are probably not "a file type" at all, but rather just "what the person who wrote the graphics encoder called them because that is short for 'picture'")

# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:12

Bum the Sad: Aug 25, 2002; Hell Gem

Rambling Robot posted:

Bum the SadBum the Sad, 1999 sure did suck.

It was a rough time in my life.

# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:21

Kmlkmljkl: Sep 21, 2014; AT NIGHT I GET SO LONELY I JERK IT FURIOUSLY TO THE SIMS

From 2010.

# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:39

funny song about politics: Feb 11, 2002

If I remember this correctly, it was my idea to sell kits that could convert typewriters into computers, possibly with mini projectors instead of monitors. I guess I figured that the keyboard accounted for a lot of a computer's complexity, and so there would be a decent savings in converting a typewriter (I was 9 or 10). Anyway it's in MSPAINT circa 1996, though honestly I think the file is older than that since I remember making it in Paint for Windows 3.1.

# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:44

Mentat Radnor: Apr 24, 2008; ~Water flowers every day~

Giblet Plus! posted:

I was cool back then:

athlon xp @2.5 ghz

cathar white water block

15k rpm scsi drive

abit NF7

What's up, watercooled-Athlon-in-a-NF-7 buddy.

We even had similar Antec knockoff full tower cases, though I must say yours came out looking a lot cleaner.

# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:46

Whirlwind Jones: Apr 13, 2013; by Lowtax

Giblet Plus! posted:

more old pictures of SICK CASEMODS from 2004

Nice. Needs more pics though, imho.

# ? Feb 28, 2015 22:01

Dr. Quarex: Apr 18, 2003; I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

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disco volante posted:

If I remember this correctly, it was my idea to sell kits that could convert typewriters into computers, possibly with mini projectors instead of monitors. I guess I figured that the keyboard accounted for a lot of a computer's complexity, and so there would be a decent savings in converting a typewriter (I was 9 or 10). Anyway it's in MSPAINT circa 1996, though honestly I think the file is older than that since I remember making it in Paint for Windows 3.1.

This probably makes no sense even to a 9-year-old. Or maybe the random appearance of three monitors when there are only two keyboards is what is throwing me off.

Also what is with all you people? Is it really this common to just throw out your old computer when you get a new one or something? Or do you still have all your old systems in a basement somewhere and these are just your newest systems?

What I am trying to say is, are all of you 15 or do you just all not care about keeping your old files handy? Other than the 8088 I started on which is still in my parents' basement, I think I have files on my current desktop from every computer and every hard drive I have ever had.

# ? Feb 28, 2015 22:09

Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

do you have the one where she looks ugly and which made her goon bf have a meltdown

# ? Feb 28, 2015 22:13

hard counter: Jan 2, 2015

Dec 27th, 1999.

# ? Feb 28, 2015 22:14

huskarl_marx: Oct 13, 2013; by zen death robot

Quarex posted:

This probably makes no sense even to a 9-year-old. Or maybe the random appearance of three monitors when there are only two keyboards is what is throwing me off.

Also what is with all you people? Is it really this common to just throw out your old computer when you get a new one or something? Or do you still have all your old systems in a basement somewhere and these are just your newest systems?

What I am trying to say is, are all of you 15 or do you just all not care about keeping your old files handy? Other than the 8088 I started on which is still in my parents' basement, I think I have files on my current desktop from every computer and every hard drive I have ever had.

they began during the dell era I guess, my computer's like an aging hollywood star, a lot of it is original but most of it is much younger

# ? Feb 28, 2015 22:26

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Quarex posted:

I wonder if there is even any way to open all these stupid .PIC files from the late 1980s/early 1990s now? IrfanView cannot do it SO NOTHING CAN (I realize they are probably not "a file type" at all, but rather just "what the person who wrote the graphics encoder called them because that is short for 'picture'")

Look at the header with a hex editor, they might be ILBM files. Rename them to .iff then and find something that can load that amiga format.

The only computer I can reach from where I am has this

(this one was named "HEAT_OF_THE_NIGHT", I have no idea who that guy is)

They're not all the oldest ones but old.

Police Automaton fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Feb 28, 2015

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Nostalgia4Dogges: Jun 18, 2004; Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

Kmlkmljkl posted:

From 2010.

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PureEvil6_13: Jun 1, 2004; I LIKE PETA AND THINK THAT SCIENCE IS EVIL

Hogge Wild posted:

do you have the one where she looks ugly and which made her goon bf have a meltdown

Well I was going to swoop in and be the hero here, but I can't seem to find it anymore. She was wearing like a leopard print bikini drinking from a straw making a complete derp face.

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Professor Shark: May 22, 2012

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R.S. Gumby: Jul 26, 2007; Utterly useless.

This was my desktop in 2001:

# ? Mar 1, 2015 01:27

gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

mine is the windoze 3.2 logo

# ? Mar 1, 2015 01:28

Dr. Quarex: Apr 18, 2003; I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

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gnarlyhotep posted:

mine is the windoze 3.2 logo

Well now instead of just casually posting I am briefly going to be convinced I have a virus and then realize the thread just moved

Anyway I was going to call you out on this because I assumed it was a joke, but then I discovered you just were totally using the Chinese version of 3.11

# ? Mar 1, 2015 01:29

gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

Quarex posted:

Well now instead of just casually posting I am briefly going to be convinced I have a virus and then realize the thread just moved

Anyway I was going to call you out on this because I assumed it was a joke, but then I discovered you just were totally using the Chinese version of 3.11

bitcj O was using the windows before you were forn

# ? Mar 1, 2015 01:32

Polygynous: Dec 13, 2006; welp

6/12/97, oldest I could find.

pretty sure this one's older but I hosed up and didn't preserve timestamps when copying a bunch of stuff on 9/14/01
and yeah, it's a fractal generated in qbasic, left running overnight, fun.

if we're counting games and poo poo this could go pretty far back. 7/29/94 at least.

Polygynous fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Mar 1, 2015

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gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

spoon0042 posted:

6/12/97, oldest I could find.

hot drat x files era Gilian

# ? Mar 1, 2015 01:44

big scary monsters: Sep 2, 2011; -~Ｓｋｕｌｌｗａｖｅ~-

Quarex posted:

What I am trying to say is, are all of you 15 or do you just all not care about keeping your old files handy? Other than the 8088 I started on which is still in my parents' basement, I think I have files on my current desktop from every computer and every hard drive I have ever had.

i dunno, i mean to transfer stuff off old computers when they get retired but normally get as far as taking the hard disk out and then never get round to doing anything with it. a few months later if i haven't needed those files i'm probably never going to look at them again - all the important stuff is backed up or on multiple computers anyway

this is the oldest picture on this laptop that i've had since mid january