While 90s computing is dark and cozy, 2000s is light and airy. Oh, I do so love the old technology aesthetics...

@umamifan

Ай бұрын

Now that you mention it, why was the 90s depiction of technology always so gritty and evil-looking? While the 2000s depiction was more... carefree?

@Overcrox

Ай бұрын

@@umamifan In the 90s it was still a bit of a niche subculture and the pop culture depictions were all cool edgy hackers and that sort of thing. In the 00s computers became less expensive and more accessible to consumers rather than just offices and wealthier people/hobbyists, so I imagine the aesthetics and advertising started to try to capture the average person rather than just corporate and wealthy customers. Plus, the new millennium coming around is a big deal, so technological optimism and a new more modern style makes perfect sense. And a whole lot more kids got to grow up with computers. Not to mention the explosion of the mobile tech market in the mid-00s. That being said, I was in kindergarten in the early 00s so don't take my word for it, lol. Just my best guess.

@umamifan

Ай бұрын

@@Overcrox Lol I'm an early 00s kid myself, but I grew up with 90s tech and more in my family. So I got a nice feel for a lot of the late 90s and early 2000s stuff since I was surrounded by the technology at an early age. I always wondered why computers and tech were just suddenly portrayed in a more positive light, but your explanation makes a ton of sense. The whole frutiger aero thing really was idealistic while in the 90s it seems like media depicted it as people having an innate fear for both the tech and those who wielded it.

@Laurzure

Ай бұрын

@@umamifan personally, I don't find 90s technology gritty or evil-looking at all. Both periods of technology for me, are full of hope and excitement for the future. I just think in the 90s, it was portrayed in a slightly different way. Perhaps there is some wistfulness to it, being the fin de siècle.

@-eili

Ай бұрын

Plus, CRT displays in those days couldn't handle vivid graphical user interface. And command line was still a thing in the PC market, so many people deemed tech as something dark and eery.

I miss “logging on”. I miss the excitement of connecting with people I just saw at school on the internet. I miss sliding a disc into the tray and watching it close. The sound it made. I miss playing on club penguin for hours and using special speak to dodge the text blocks so that I could connect with people through KZread and AIM. I miss making videos with friends for school and fun. I miss having nothing to worry about, for years I didn’t know what worry really was. I miss my childhood. I miss my dad.

@tobisupersmart

28 күн бұрын

This genuinely hit

@jimbrowl

24 күн бұрын

I miss all of that too

@MBlto

21 күн бұрын

i remember when we didn't have a computer at home, so me and my sister would spend the evening at my dad's office after work, playing this runway show barbie game that a friend of us copied on a cd for us to play. our dad would make the silliest outifts for barbie to make us laugh and then we would beg our mom to let us stay more. it was probably around 2006/2007. Now that game doesn't work on modern softwares anymore and i haven't talked to my dad in 11 years. your comment reminded me of those brief and happy times

@user-vs8hf6zg6y

19 күн бұрын

Me too, bros and sis, me too... ~ 🫡🙏🏻

@pixelforg

12 күн бұрын

good for you, i honestly can't relate to any of these comments, couldnt afford a computer.....

Watching this in 144p for the ultimate 2000 internet experience

@nanopone

2 ай бұрын

144p is too low even for 2000s standards. 240p is probably more accurate

@mutably

2 ай бұрын

@@nanopone You're right, I just find 144p to be more beautiful

@3am246

2 ай бұрын

144p wasn’t even introduced on KZread until about 5 years after it was launched, I remember everyone being really confused and a bit irritated by it

@selkrasouza6262

2 ай бұрын

As someone who's watching this on an aging windows 7 desktop, I have to watch this is 144p anyway

@rationallyright4626

Ай бұрын

Same.

The SIMS 2 segment got me in a chokehold of nostalgia

@worklobbydj

15 күн бұрын

I gasped so loud, talk about a rush!!

@bun-e9361

Күн бұрын

SAME

In 3 weeks I'll be 42. Got my first ADSL broadband in 2003, at the age of 21. Those were the golden years of the www. You had your desktop computer on your PC table with a retractable keyboard tray. The internet happened THERE and nowhere else, providing a perfect online/offline balance in life. You logged in and you logged out. No one expected you to be there 24/7. You did, however, leave your PC on over night to download some mp3s.

I was born in the mid 80's (so high school/college in the 2000's) and the one thing I miss about the 2000's was the hope we had for the future. Not everything was perfect but it still felt like we were moving towards a brighter future. Technology was more balanced then and its use was much more purposeful than today - I hope we have another era like this.

@joswanlauwkung

Ай бұрын

Pandemic and crazy AI are things we don't really expect for brighter future

@J.A.Acosta

Ай бұрын

A world without tiktok will always be a better place xd

@eduardoblancas8452

16 күн бұрын

Glory for the real computational thinking!

@eduardoblancas8452

16 күн бұрын

@@joswanlauwkung No. AI things were predicted in that time according to futurologists. But the unexpected problem is the way in which they arrived, not was the entire thing

I don't think I've ever experienced a more robust rush of nostalgia in my life.

2:53 the absolute banger that nobody heard because the sound drivers were rarely loaded by this point XD

@RonLaws

2 ай бұрын

A shame Stan LePard is no longer with us :( He passed away not long ago

@betaswithWack0

2 ай бұрын

XP was the earliest version of windows that included SiS7018 drivers, so when I heard it after clean installing XP for first time (yes, using devils0wn serial FCKGW) I was astonished that I didn't have to install sound drivers!

@J.A.Acosta

Ай бұрын

@@RonLaws He also composed the main theme of Flight Simulator X, that song hits me with a ton of nostalgia now

Holy shit when 'Like Humans Do' popped up my brain reset. I usually keep track of old things that were ubiquitous around me, but this one got swept under the rug by my memory until today. We're so back.

@videoghost

Ай бұрын

SAME. Holy shit I haven't heard this song in 20 years and I immediately recognized it. What a strange experience.

@infamoussgarage

Ай бұрын

same

@gingercams

27 күн бұрын

Wait everyone had that song???

@AnnDee4444

7 күн бұрын

@@gingercams It was the sample music for Windows XP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_Humans_Do

The curtains are real. They were always behind the childhood computer

Man this hit me soo hard, i am again back in my kid days, hot summer vacation, no worries, only video games and playing outside with friends...

There was a time when anything was possible with my computer even without internet. Every creators were passionate about implementing good stuff as-is. Where did we go so wrong...

this should have been in 4:3 for the full 2000s experience but i still love this post

KZread is the aesthetic conveyor for the 2000s nostalgia the same way Tumblr was for the 90s

2:44 PERFECT TRANSITION. I was about to cry when I heard windows xp installation music.

That start music is pretty relaxing and 2000s like.

The 90s computer room playlist has already become a staple for me while at work. Maybe the only playlist on this site to really nail down that frutiger aero sound too

The fact that FATE was in there made me super happy

That Sims section got me, spent so many hours on that game

❗❗❗if you guys want the visualizer effect (the animation thingy at the beginning) use the original windows media player, download your songs, play them on there, click the "switch to now playing" button on the bottom left, right-click to open a drop down menu, and go to visualizers and mess around with them important to note that for some reason wmp stops visualizer effects when it plays the next song and you have to manually skip to the song for the effect to remain, you can also play the music off of a cd and it'll work as intended

@nuToH4ek

2 ай бұрын

я на 7 разные визуализации скачивал в wmp, было прикольно так слушать) в моем основном на сегодняшнее время media classic player hc нету такого.

the sims 2 part gets me so hyped while im studying

This is the best kind of blast from the past. Also, the Windows Media Player Animations would just elevate the songs.

@TechnoMinded-qp5in

2 ай бұрын

Microsoft is delusional to think they're gods and dictators we gave them the power and right to exist we can take it back from them brother help me prove a point and push Microsoft back and we will show them who REALLY gives them the right to live in existence.

1:10:32 Stand up, anthem of “You’re pc is not connected to internet so you’re scrolling for music offline” is playing

@WhiteoDead-

10 күн бұрын

THIS IS THE SHIT I BE LISTEN TOO WHEN I WAS IN 4 GRADE the computer cant see what u were really going back in the 2010s and 2000s

this reminds me of the year 2004 when i fell in love

Setting the resolution to 240p was something that I couldn't think of myself and it was totally worth it.

The nostalgia...

the perfect vibe

2:51 oh man take me back to that wonderful year of 2006! Installing xp on all of the scrap optiplex machines we got for free from school and running various game servers on them

The sound quality & the window player vizualizer sent me straight into the stratosphere 💫

bro i can't handle it please stop. its too good.

this video is so underrated it needs more views! I love the how the monitor display changes with the songs~ good job~

This is unexpectedly good asf

JUST WHAT I ORDERED! Thank you for the wonderful mixes with the excellent visuals :3c

I have to say, this music is just absolutely incredible. I feel like it's opening new pathways of sound for me that I haven't heard before.

this is pure beauty, thanks for making this. This video now my working background video on my 2ed screen. Keep up the great work!

This is odd yet relaxin' i remember when Windows computers had these images & photos. 💜✅️

I miss T.V., the internet, radio and the people that were on there from this time. Part of me feels like I will experience it again somehow. Will it be heaven?

I wasn't expecting this one to fair as well as the 90s themed one you did; I was pleasantly surprised.

I'M FEASTING TODAY Thanks so much, i love the computer room playlists

Frutiger aero last optimistic aesthetic from 00s. With hope for a brighter future. Then we took a wrong turn...

Holy macaroni, the ending of that "Like Humans Do" song has been stuck in my mind for nearly 2 decades now. My dad had it on the family computer (coincidentally also a Windows XP machine of a similar vintage to that seen in the video) and it was wiped after a hardware failure or virus infection (not sure which, possibly both). I could never remember what the song was called, and hearing it again brought back many memories of staring at the WMP visualizer as a toddler.

Right in the FEELS

These DO NOT miss.

Was not expecting to hear the Fate soundtrack

YO FATE MENTIONED WE TURNING OUR PETS INTO SPIDERS USING FISH WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥

lets all love lain

@fahrenheit1391

17 күн бұрын

Present day present time hahahaha

@Alex-os8jp

3 күн бұрын

@@fahrenheit1391 And you don't seem to understand.

This is incredible man.

22:47 - omg it's bugdom!

Sick as per usual

this video is life sould and originality back when everything looked beautiful just for the sake of it instead of deleting aesthetics for usefulness with all the plain souless era we live in

The KZread algorithm did its thing again, this is dope, thank you so much for uploading it

incredible.... thank you

mouse cursor vibin' with the music

15:20 I WENT CRAZY WITH THE PVZ ZEN GARDEN THEME

Very delightful

This playlist was amazing from start to finish. I think it deserves more views and I'm sure it will get them.

los buenos viejos tiempos, no sabia lo mucho que extrañaba esa epóca

I have both the Windows installation music and the Zen Garden theme in seperate playlists already so they are a pleasant surprise! Seeing the pinball game and the visualiser gave me intense nostalgia. This is going into my 'calming' playlist for sure :D.

I grew up in the 2000s (89 babe) and this is so good it really DOES THAT

MADE MY DAY TO HEAR ANALOG AQUATICS I LOVE NSR ! !

i miss the early 2000s soo much

Holy shit the fate music threw me off. I did NOT expect this

this is beautiful

Ñaño, este video me trae recuerdos de hace mucho tiempo, cuando solamente era un niño que disfrutaba de pasar tiempo en el ciber de su tía tras acabar los deberes, las memorias a las que mas cariño les tengo son aquellas veces que era de noche y podía disfrutar de uno de los computadores solamente para mi sin tener que ceder el puesto a algún cliente xd, y aquel sonido con el que me recibía el windows XP tras minutos y minutos de carga, y encima con esas bocinas en las que el sonido salía siempre mas saturado de alguna forma, vaya que eran tiempos mucho más simples, los atesoro. 🖥🌻

20:29 I was definitely not expecting to hear a song from Fate, that made my day. :)

Used this to study. ty 🥰🥰

такая ностальгия. спасибо за плейлист

New era starting

yoooo that first bloop at 35:30 was fiiiire

First 15 seconds into this and my mouth dropped

enjoying this one

what a bop

Thank you

Oh man, makes me wanna go back....

loved it

I apparently zoned out in ELA class. I feel like this was the type of music that played in my head.

1:10:30 i used to listen to this so much on my old PC i put this cd into it and it was amazing now things changed and got myself a new PC that doesnt have a cd drive but when i heard it again here i got so much nostalgia

YOOOO FATE THE TRAITOR SOUL MENTION!!! that game brings such nostalgia for me, i've never scrambled so fast to switch back to a window to double check i was hearing right lol. used to download the demo from wild tangent (pretty sure i snagged it from there lol) and play the demo for hours and hours on end. i was what- maybe 12? and i'm almost 26 now. i had completely forgotten about it, i think i might buy and play the actual full version now. thank you for dredging up such an old beloved memory ;w;

Euros love that Theme Hospital

I miss these times.

Windows Media Player looked so cool! I miss when software had personality to it. Not cold and minimalist.

@hal5474

Ай бұрын

"Cold" is a perfect way to describe it

Yeah! NiGHTS : Journey of Dreams!

This music is fire tho 🔥🔥🔥

ZEN GARDEN THEME OMG 😭

@eddy_lover

2 ай бұрын

iconic✨

the music from the fate game actually broke my neck with how fast I turned to see if my ears were deceiving me

awesome channel, so glad i found it ^_^

i'd love to have that old windows media player back

Just love it , thanks for the memories , if you can also create video of all cool free utilities s/w like jinnie and other comes with PC magazine

I still have my 24 years old working Pentium 3 computer with Windows XP. (I got it in 2006, my first computer, I was 6 years old 😊) the computer was second hand at the time.

@user-nz5bj1pr6p

2 ай бұрын

can't believe 2006 is almost reaching the 20-year mark.

@5225Quick

2 ай бұрын

How Lucky, That is considered a Classic Computer you have.

I remember in 2003 we got a new SmartBoard, an interactive projector. A dedicated room. Eventually we got one in each class and it got converted into an IT Suite. 20 years later I started working at that school, to find the IT room was converted into a store room, which has a cupboard full of iPad and Chromebooks. Now they have interactive display panels which are touch screen. I wonder what the kids will be using later down the line.

the mouse dancing at the beginning is such a damn mood

god editing

I'm watching this on my M1 Mac while my blue CRT iMac hums in the background!

Pleasant find,

the spore footage... hits hard...

0:00 was my fav:3

i remember when i was child my parents buy for me pc with preinstalled windows xp its been my first pc in life and i also remember windows 7 when i little grows

Dude I LOVE these! It's hard to describe, but you kinda just 'get it' with these. The 90's one was so perfect, the visuals, the sounds, everything! Just out of curiosity, how do you achieve that camera grain effect on these? It's very nice and adds a lot of autheticity

22:50 I have been looking for this game for 10 years, when I was little we had one of those old iMacs with the color plastic backs with that game on it.

Weird to hear this computer sound again. I haven't heard it in ten years!