The thing about that screenshot that has me curious is the shortcut to 7zip which, although it has been around for longer than I realised, no one really used until the 2nd half of the 00’s
Which makes it kinda more interesting tbh—did someone at Ars set this up to take a screenshot of ICQ? Getting a windows 98 VM set up with all that other stuff just for an article image seems like a lot of effort for a journalist who probably needs to get a few articles written a week.
If it wasn’t Ars, who was it and why did they set up a somewhat period-accurate windows 98 VM and then take a screenshot of ICQ out of everything?
Oh don’t get me wrong, I get that someone might set up the VM, I just don’t know why they’d do that plus then screenshot ICQ and put it somewhere online for this journalist to find
That wallpaper is cray!
That’s from the original EverQuest or one of it’s early expansions.
I think it’s Ruins of Kunark
https://www.keithparkinson.com/product/ruins-of-kunark-photo-stock-print/
Buy a print to support the original artist
Dude I love you!
I would have also accepted
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, fam.
Nah. Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness
Good ol Everquest.
The thing about that screenshot that has me curious is the shortcut to 7zip which, although it has been around for longer than I realised, no one really used until the 2nd half of the 00’s
Isn’t this just a screengrab from a win98 VM?
Given the presence of 7zip almost definitely
Which makes it kinda more interesting tbh—did someone at Ars set this up to take a screenshot of ICQ? Getting a windows 98 VM set up with all that other stuff just for an article image seems like a lot of effort for a journalist who probably needs to get a few articles written a week.
If it wasn’t Ars, who was it and why did they set up a somewhat period-accurate windows 98 VM and then take a screenshot of ICQ out of everything?
Maybe I’m thinking too hard about this
Honestly I thoughr about doing it after suggesting that it might have been a VM. Maybe it was someone like me.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I get that someone might set up the VM, I just don’t know why they’d do that plus then screenshot ICQ and put it somewhere online for this journalist to find