Richie’s Computer Stuff

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I also make videos, on the PeerTube instance MakerTube, and not YouTube! I like computery-things and memes. https://makertube.net/a/richie_g/video-channels https://cyberplace.social/@richiegolds https://loops.video/@RichieG

A neon green sticky note is stuck to a front door, above the gold and black lock and door handle, with the words “Check for MOOSE” written on it in pink marker.
A beige Dell tower computer sits on a desk. Next to it, a beige IBM CRT monitor sits on top of a beige pizza box style Compaq Deskpro computer. There’s a beige keyboard, mouse, and pair of speakers. It’s set in a brightly lit basement. The video shows a hand pressing the power button, and then the CRT quickly goes from black, then quickly flashing the Windows Me boot screen, then to a Windows Me desktop with a blue wallpaper, grey taskbar, and numerous desktop icons.
A retro beige computer setup featuring a Dell Dimension 4100 tower running Windows Me on an IBM 2124 CRT monitor. The screen displays the Windows Me startup logo with visible horizontal scan-line and refresh artifacts caused by photographing a CRT display. The IBM monitor sits atop a beige Compaq Deskpro EN desktop system. A beige Dell QuietKey keyboard, generic beige mouse, and beige Harman/Kardon speakers complete the setup. Attached to the Dell tower is a pink sticky note showing a hand-drawn finger wagging “no” alongside the text “no :)”, covering the Windows 98 license sticker. Exposed pink insulation and curtains are in the background.
A black 2026 Toyota bZ electric crossover parked on a snowy roadside in a mountainous landscape, viewed from the front. The car is lightly coated in winter road grime and sits beside a plowed road. Behind it, a partially frozen turquoise river is surrounded by trees and steep snow-covered mountain slopes with visible avalanche paths. A truck and several parked vehicles are further down the road, while power lines run along the right side under a clear blue sky.
A black 2026 Toyota bZ electric crossover parked on a residential driveway in daylight, viewed from the front passenger-side angle. The vehicle is plugged in and charging from the passenger-side front port, with the cable running along the concrete. The glossy black paint reflects the bright blue sky and nearby houses. An evergreen tree stands close to the right side of the car, and a red pickup truck is parked on the street in the background in a quiet suburban neighborhood.
A black 2026 Toyota bZ electric crossover parked in a residential driveway at night, viewed from the front. The vehicle is plugged in to charge from the passenger-side front port, with the charging cable running across the concrete. Its slim LED light bar stretches across the front, glowing brightly, with the left headlamp illuminated. The glossy paint reflects nearby lighting. A large evergreen tree stands to the right, and pickup trucks and houses are visible in the dimly lit background under streetlights.
A black 2026 Toyota bZ electric crossover displayed inside a dealership showroom, viewed from the front three-quarter angle. The vehicle has a glossy black finish with sharp, angular body lines, slim LED daytime running lights stretching across the front, and vertically stacked headlamp housings below them. The smooth front fascia lacks a traditional grille, giving it a sleek EV appearance. Five-spoke alloy wheels and low-profile tires are visible, along with black roof rails and tinted windows. The vehicle sits on a polished light-beige tile floor under bright showroom lighting, with another dark SUV partially visible beside it.
The LumaFusion video editor interface is shown on an iPhone screen. In the preview monitor at the top, a 1999–2000 Compaq Armada M700 laptop sits on a desk while booting Microsoft Windows 98, with the Windows 98 logo visible on its screen. Below, the timeline displays video clips and audio tracks, including a voiceover track, with clip thumbnails and editing controls filling the lower half of the screen.
A warmly lit desk staged to look like 2005, with a white iMac G4 in the center running The Sims in a window. Four pink sticky notes with handwritten reminders are stuck along the bottom of the screen. On the desk are a white Apple keyboard and mouse, an open computer textbook showing diagrams about disk boot and memory, and an open notebook with handwritten technical notes and a pen resting on it. To the left are a Coca-Cola can, a portable Sony Discman with a small speaker attached, a Sony Ericsson flip phone, a blue floppy disk, a blue calculator, and a black Game Boy Advance SP with a Shrek 2 cartridge beside it. A DVD of Corner Gas season one is also visible. To the right are a Logitech game controller and a green-yellow lava lamp casting a soft glow. The scene looks like someone was supposed to be studying for computer class but got distracted by playing The Sims instead.
A silver Power Mac G4 Mirror Drive Doors tower sits on the left side of a desk next to a black and silver 5:4 Dell LCD monitor. The monitor shows Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger with a web browser open to the SpaceHey website (a modern version of the classic MySpace website) and the “About This Mac” window visible, listing Mac OS X version 10.4.11, a dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 processor configuration, and 2 MB of L3 cache per processor. The wallpaper on the desktop is a tiger fur pattern, referencing the operating system codename “Tiger”. In front of the monitor is an Apple keyboard and an Apple mouse on the desk. The setup is in an unfinished basement with exposed wooden framing and pink insulation visible in the background. The lighting is low and warm, provided by a nearby desk lamp out of frame.
A staged early-2000s computer desk setup lit with blue and magenta accent lighting. On the left, a white iBook G4 laptop displays SpaceHey, a modern MySpace-style social network, in a Firefox-based browser. In the center is a Dell Dimension 2200 tower connected to a Dell CRT monitor showing Windows XP with the game Zuma Deluxe running, using a Dell keyboard and mouse. Beige Harman/Kardon desktop speakers sit beside the monitor. Spread across the desk are period accessories including a Motorola Razr flip phone, a blue Tamagotchi Connection, a TI-84 graphing calculator resting on an open handwritten notepad, a black Game Boy Advance SP, and a blue 3.5-inch floppy disk labeled “Plop Bootloader.” A GTA III jewel case lies near the front edge of the desk, and a Maran Illustrated Windows XP: 101 Tips book stands behind the computers.
A black cat lies on a comfy bed.
A 90s computer setup sits on a beige desk. It consists of beige small form factor PC underneath a CRT monitor, a beige Dell keyboard and beige mouse on a black mousepad, with two beige speakers on either side. The CRT is off, but the reflection of a standing light can be seen. In the background, pink insulation and wood studs can be seen in the unfinished basement.
A long-haired black cat sits upright against a light-colored wall, looking slightly to the left with bright green eyes. His fur is thick and fluffy, with a soft ruff around his neck and a few white hairs mixed in. His expression is calm and regal.
A beige CRT monitor displays Memtest86 5.01 running on a Pentium II system. The top half of the blue screen shows system details such as “CLK: 348.5MHz (PAE Mode),” “Memory: 384M,” and “Chipset: Intel i440BX.” The timer reads 00:00:04, but it is frozen and not advancing. The bottom half of the screen is filled with rapidly scrolling red error rows, showing countless failing memory addresses around the 276MB region. Many of the hexadecimal values in the “Good,” “Bad,” and “Err-Bits” columns appear slightly blurred due to how fast the errors were flying by. The error counter reads over 2.7 million errors. Warm ambient light reflects off the CRT bezel in the dimly lit room.
A graphite iMac G3 displaying the About This Mac window on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger. The system specs list a 500MHz PowerPC G3 processor and 512MB of SDRAM. The desktop wallpaper is a stylized map from Fallout 3, shown in shades of blue and black that glow vividly against the CRT screen. The iMac sits on a desk beside a Dell keyboard and another beige CRT monitor, with CDs stacked on the left and a dimly lit room with pink insulation and grey curtains in the background.
Set in a brightly lit unfinished basement, an old beige computer is on a desk with its case open. Inside, there are several expansion cards and numerous cables, and the front of the case has a green CPU clock readout of 33MHz. The camera pans to the beige IBM CRT monitor, as it displays boot messages and a contradictory 66MHz CPU clock, before showing the Plop Bootloader screen, which gives options for hard drive, CD, and USB boot. The camera then pans back to the computer and zooms in on the black hard drive in the drive cage.
A close-up photo of a computer monitor showing the Render Queue in DaVinci Resolve. The project titled “Shuttle XPC (Remake) | Main Video” is actively rendering, located at /home/richie/Videos/Videos/ShuttleXPC.mov. The progress bar shows 22% complete with 7 minutes and 51 seconds remaining, and below it, the text reads “Rendering in Progress – 1 of 1 Jobs”. The timeline with multiple video tracks is partially visible at the bottom of the screen.
A 5:4 gameplay screengrab from Need for Speed: Underground, overlaid on a blurred, stretched background of the same footage to fit a 16:9 frame. The scene shows a bright green Dodge Neon racing through a city tunnel at night, slightly airborne as it speeds along the yellow-striped road. The on-screen HUD shows the player in 1st place, 26 seconds into the race, driving at 170 km/h in 4th gear. The name “Eh” appears in the top-right leaderboard. A small minimap with blue arrows is on the lower left, and a tachometer and speedometer are in the lower right. In the bottom left corner of the video, a glowing orange quarter-circle progress bar arcs beside the text “Need for Speed Underground.
A computer monitor displaying DaVinci Resolve video editing software. The project on screen shows a split view — the clip monitor in the middle features a Shuttle XPC Cube illuminated with dramatic purple and blue lighting, while the timeline monitor on the right shows a retro-themed desk setup with an early 2000s IBM ThinkPad, the same Shuttle XPC Cube, an iMac G4, and a Dell LCD monitor in the background. Below, the timeline displays video and audio tracks with adjustment layers and clips arranged in sequence. The workspace around the screen is dimly lit, with a faint warm reflection on the desk surface and a CD visible in front of the monitor.
A close-up view of the DaVinci Resolve video editor’s main video monitor, recorded by a smartphone. It shows the top-right corner of the computer screen, and the monitor shows a before and after view of colour correction. Before, the video is dull and grey, and after is more vivid and clear. The video being edited shows a complete computer desk setup, with a small silver Shuttle XPC Cube computer, black keyboard and mouse, and square black LCD monitor showing the Windows XP blue Luna theme and desktop, with a red sandy dune wallpaper.
A nighttime cityscape of downtown Vancouver, taken from a 6th-floor hotel balcony. The view shows a marina filled with boats in the foreground, a row of trees illuminated by warm streetlights, and a dense cluster of high-rise buildings in the background, their windows glowing with light under a cloudy night sky.
A moody, retro-tech filming setup lit with nostalgic, dramatic cyan and magenta lighting. A beige IKEA desk is positioned against an unfinished wall with exposed insulation. On the desk sits a silver Shuttle XPC cube-style PC, illuminated with pink and blue light, in front of a Lenovo ThinkVision monitor. A pair of Logitech speakers, a wired keyboard, a black mouse, a network switch, and a Mac Mini are also on the desk. To the left is a purple desk lamp, and on both sides in front of the desk are two LED lights mounted on tripods, but only the tall cyan light stick and the purple desk lamp are turned on. A camera is set up on a tripod in front of the desk, aimed at the Shuttle PC. Underneath the desk sit a silver Power Mac G4 MDD and a Dell Optiplex tower.
A clear, shallow river winds through a rocky valley surrounded by dense evergreen forest in Kananaskis near Bragg Creek, Alberta. On the left, jagged rock faces rise steeply, covered with tall pine and spruce trees. The right side of the riverbank is made up of exposed rocks and patches of sandy shoreline, with a few small plants growing between the cracks. The water is transparent and rippling gently, reflecting the late afternoon sun. Overhead, dramatic white clouds drift across a bright blue sky, with forested mountain ridges visible in the distance.
A two-panel meme using the Wojak character style to criticize the perceived double standard in how Linux and Windows complexity are judged. Top panel: A frustrated, crying Wojak character says, “Linux isn’t user friendly at all! Everything is complicated!” Bottom panel: A smug, mask-wearing Wojak (hiding a similarly distressed face underneath) calmly says, “Yes you can disable Windows updates, just edit the registry.” “Use a debloat script to remove Candy Crush.” “Disable Windows reserved bandwidth by going into the group policy editor.” The meme humorously points out how users will accept complicated workarounds in Windows without complaint, yet criticize Linux for being “too hard.”
A screenshot of the MadOnion.com System Info window shows system specs for a Compaq PC running Windows 2000. The CPU is an Intel Pentium III at 797 MHz (800 MHz), with an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500, 512MB of RAM, and motherboard model 0688h by Compaq. The tool version is 2.2.
Video of a Compaq Deskpro EN smoothly running GTA III on a beige IBM CRT monitor. The player drives a blue Kuruma sedan through Portland Island, passing green space, going under a short bridge, then driving past a junkyard and gas station. The car enters a train yard, hits a jump, and flips mid-air before crashing. Gameplay is fluid and visually output on the CRT monitor, showcasing the Deskpro’s retro gaming capability.
A beige IBM CRT monitor sits atop a Compaq Deskpro EN desktop computer, both part of a retro computing setup. The screen displays the early boot screen of Windows 2000 Professional, showing the “Starting Windows…” text with a horizontal progress bar made of small blue rectangles. Below it reads: “For troubleshooting and advanced startup options for Windows 2000, press F8.” To the left are a few jewel cases for CDs, and to the right is a Logitech speaker and a Mac mini is just barely visible. The background features pink fiberglass insulation and a curtain.
A vintage PC setup shows a Compaq Deskpro EN desktop computer placed beneath an IBM CRT monitor, which is currently displaying the Windows 2000 Professional Setup screen. The setup is in the process of formatting a partition labeled C: New (Unformatted) with a size of 57,239MB, and the progress bar indicates it’s 51% complete. The familiar blue setup screen states: “Please wait while Setup formats the partition…” In front of the computer is a classic Dell QuietKey keyboard with gray and white keys, along with a generic beige two-button mouse resting on a black mousepad. A pair of Logitech desktop speakers is visible behind the keyboard on the right, next to a powered-off Lenovo ThinkVision monitor and another keyboard. The scene is set against a backdrop of unfinished walls with visible pink insulation, and the workspace has a cozy, retro-tech atmosphere. The CRT’s glow adds a nostalgic touch, capturing a moment familiar to anyone who installed Windows operating systems in the late 1990s or early 2000s.
An old, beige IBM Aptiva and beige IBM CRT monitor sit on a desk in a warm and dimly lit basement. The CRT shows the classic video game GTA 3 running very slowly, as a bluish green car goes down a bridge and makes a turn in an urban environment.
A silver Philips CRT television, approximately 25 inches, sits on a white IKEA LACK coffee table against a wall lined with exposed pink fiberglass insulation and plastic sheeting. On the bottom shelf of the table are two classic game consoles: on the left, a “fat” PlayStation 2 with two memory cards inserted and a wireless controller dongle plugged in; on the right, a black Nintendo GameCube, also with two memory cards and a wireless controller dongle attached. The TV and consoles are arranged neatly, with a nostalgic early-2000s gaming setup vibe. The concrete floor and unfinished walls give the scene a minimalist basement or game room aesthetic.
A close-up view of a rock chip in the windshield of a Toyota Corolla. The chip is clearly visible in the lower center of the photo, with small cracks radiating outward from the impact point. The windshield is brand new, only a month old, making the damage particularly frustrating. Reflections of blue sky and white clouds are visible on the glass, indicating it’s a bright, sunny day. Inside the car, a dashcam is mounted to the upper windshield, with its power cable hanging down. The dashboard, screen, and headrests are also visible through the glass, with faint reflections of the photographer and their phone at the bottom of the frame.
A screenshot of a picture sent to ChatGPT. The image shows a white box that says Ok, with a Windows 95 menu bar that says Ok, a Windows message that says Ok, a button that says Ok, a Snapchat caption that says Ok, and ChatGPT responding after seeing the image, with Ok.
A close-up of a black cat’s face, partially obscured by a vinyl-covered step. Its eyes are green and the pupils dilated, and its expression appears to be a little crazy. Its white whiskers are visible on the right.
Two Apple laptops are side by side on a beige desk: on the left is a more modern M1 MacBook Air in silver, and on the right is a white iBook G4 running Mac OS X Tiger. The MacBook Air displays the macOS Sequoia desktop, with the “About This Mac” window open, showing it as a MacBook Air with an Apple M1 chip and 8GB of RAM. The iBook G4 screen also shows its system information, revealing it’s running Mac OS X 10.4.11 with a 1.2GHz PowerPC G4 processor and 1.25GB of RAM. The iBook has a vivid rose-themed wallpaper and is plugged into power, with its charging indicator glowing orange. Behind the laptops is a large 24-inch Sun Microsystems LCD monitor, currently powered off, and a white Apple keyboard tucked partially underneath it. A Microsoft-branded mouse is visible on the right edge of the desk, and a partially obscured camera sits to the left of the MacBook Air.
A collection of vintage Apple computers is neatly arranged in a basement workspace with unfinished walls lined with pink insulation. The machines are placed on and around a beige desk with a wood-themed vinyl floor beneath. On the floor in the foreground sits a Graphite iMac G3 facing the camera. To the left of it is a Shuttle XPC cube, and to the right are three Power Mac G4 towers in a row: a Quicksilver, a Mirrored Drive Doors (MDD), and a Graphite model. Furthest to the right is an aluminum Mac Pro. On top of the desk are various Apple laptops and desktops. From left to right: a Lime iBook G3 Clamshell is open and angled toward the camera. Behind it, partially obscured by the laptops, is a white iMac G4. Next to the iBook G3 is a 12-inch PowerBook G4, followed by a 15-inch PowerBook G4, and then a 12-inch iBook G4, all open and arranged in a tidy row. Behind them is a large 24-inch Sun Microsystems LCD monitor, which is connected to a Power Mac G5 tower sitting on the right. On top of the Power Mac G5 is a PowerBook G3 “Pismo” model.
A rather frightening and blurry photo of a raccoon with its front legs spread in a menacing manner, on a green lawn.
A desk is covered with the fully disassembled components of a PowerBook G3 “Pismo” laptop. The bottom casing of the PowerBook is positioned in the center-right of the desk, with its green logic board and other internals exposed. Around it are various parts removed from the system, including the CPU/RAM daughtercard, the optical drive, hard drive, heat sink, speaker assembly, AirPort card, keyboard, and the display panel, which sits toward the back-left of the desk with its cables still attached. Also on the desk are multiple precision screwdrivers, a magnifying glass, a blue and white ceramic coffee mug, a remote control, a CD-R, and some scattered screws and tools. A large flat-panel Sun Microsystems monitor looms behind the workspace, turned off, with another white Apple keyboard partly underneath it. Nearby, an iPad with a keyboard case is just visible at the right edge of the frame, and the corner of a laptop with SteelSeries stickers is tucked under the desk on the left.
A white Apple iBook G4 laptop with a 12 inch screen is open on a beige desk, displaying the “About This Mac” window in Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger). The desktop background is a close-up photo of a rose in shades of pink and coral. The system specs indicate it has a 1.2GHz PowerPC G4 processor and 1.25GB of DDR SDRAM. An orange charging light is visible on the right side of the laptop. In the background is a full-sized external Apple keyboard and a turned-off desktop monitor from Sun Microsystems, along with some scattered accessories like a CD and a mouse. The scene has a warm, cozy feel with soft lighting.
A silver M1 MacBook Air sits on a wooden table, its screen dark and keyboard visible. Two cooked pierogies have mysteriously landed on the laptop—one resting on the trackpad and the other atop the keyboard between the W and H keys. The pierogies appear to have launched themselves from a nearby bowl, suggesting an unexpected snack-related mishap. The MacBook is otherwise clean and undamaged, but the pierogies stand out as the chaotic centerpiece of this unlikely culinary-tech crossover.
A close-up shot of the video monitor in video editing software, showing two classic Power Mac G4 systems, opened up on the floor with their famous oven door style case. It shows their internal components. The video shows before and after an adjustment clip was applied: before, the video looks dull and lifeless, and colours seem slightly off. After, the colours are richer and more vivid, and more in line with what one would expect.
A Graphite Power Mac G4 is set up on a beige desk, running Mac OS 9 and displaying the Classilla web browser on a large 24-inch Sun Microsystems LCD monitor. The browser is open to the Classilla archive page, offering downloads and documentation for the legacy Mac OS browser. The desktop background is the classic gray-blue Mac OS 9 theme with a few icons on the right-hand side. The Power Mac G4 sits to the right of the monitor, featuring its signature translucent graphite plastic with a ribbed dark front panel, Apple logo on the side, and translucent curved handles on top and bottom. In front of the monitor is a white Apple Pro Keyboard and a matching white Apple Pro Mouse on a black wrist-support mousepad. The setup is neatly arranged, with the monitor showing a clear and vibrant image, impressive for a vintage machine. To the left on the desk are a black USB flash drive, a camera lens partially in frame, a remote control, and a rounded CD storage case. The background features unfinished walls with pink fiberglass insulation and a gray curtain off to the side, giving the space a practical, hobbyist basement feel.
A video shows a vintage computing setup on a desk with exposed pink fiberglass insulation in the background. The video begins with a close-up of a Graphite Power Mac G4 being plugged into power. I press the power button, and the machine powers on. The camera moves over to an early-to-mid 2000s HP 5:4 LCD monitor, which is black for a few seconds, then lights up and displays the classic Mac flashing folder with a question mark icon—indicating no bootable drive found. Next, the video shows the same process with a Quicksilver Power Mac G4. It’s plugged in and powered on, and the HP monitor once again shows the flashing question mark folder. The desk setup includes an Apple keyboard and mouse placed directly in front of the monitor, with a black and grey Compaq keyboard tucked underneath the monitor. Off to the side, a tube-style floor lamp emits a soft warm white glow, adding ambient lighting to the brightly lit workspace.
Three vintage Apple Power Mac G4 towers are lined up side by side on a light wood-style vinyl floor. They are positioned near a desk with exposed computer cables underneath, and unfinished pink fiberglass insulation on the wall behind them. From left to right, the first machine is a Power Mac G4 Graphite model, featuring a translucent smoky gray front panel with vertical ribbing, a tray-loading optical drive, a circular speaker grille, and a white Apple logo near the top. A white asset sticker from an electronics recycler is affixed to the front. Next is the Power Mac G4 Quicksilver, which has a sleeker, metallic silver faceplate with rounded edges. The front panel includes two optical drive bays and a circular speaker port. It also has a white asset label on the front from the same recycler. The third tower is the Power Mac G4 MDD (Mirrored Drive Doors), distinguished by its mirrored drive bay cover, silver circular power button, and four small vertical ventilation slots near the bottom of the front panel. It does not have a recycler label on the front, as it has been in my collection since 2012. All three systems share the iconic translucent polycarbonate handles and curvy aesthetic characteristic of early 2000s Apple hardware.
Gameplay footage from Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Set on a floating island high in the sky during sunset, it shows 5 energetic green orbs selected in the menu, then being placed into a receptacle for what resembles a gashapon machine. It takes the items deposited, and returns many small capsules with items inside, which are then picked up by Link, who is dressed in aggressive-looking armour, with his two spectral companions.
A vintage computing setup is displayed on a beige desk, featuring two desktop towers side by side: on the left is an IBM Aptiva 2153-E2U from 1998, and on the right is a silver Shuttle XPC cube from the early 2000s. The IBM Aptiva sports a beige tower case with a floppy drive and a CD-ROM drive, connected to an IBM CRT monitor. The CRT displays the Windows 98 Second Edition desktop with a red tiled background and numerous nostalgic icons, including Midtown Madness, Driver, SimCity 2000, Stronghold, Zuma Deluxe, and Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. To its right, the Shuttle XPC is a compact, silver cube-shaped PC, connected to an HP f1905 LCD monitor showing a blue-filtered Windows XP desktop, with the f.lux software likely dimming the screen to reduce eye strain. Desktop icons include Microsoft Office 2003, Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, San Andreas, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, Need for Speed: Underground, Zoo Tycoon 2, SimCity 4, SimCity Societies: Destinations, Zuma Deluxe, and Luxor. The front panel of the Shuttle includes an LG DVD-RW drive, floppy drive, two USB ports, audio jacks, a FireWire port, and the power/reset buttons with blue LED indicators. It also bears an Intel Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading sticker. Internally, it’s equipped with a 2.8GHz Northwood Pentium 4, 2GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 GPU. Each system has its own keyboard: the IBM Aptiva uses a classic beige Dell keyboard and mouse, while the Shuttle setup features a Compaq-branded black and grey keyboard and a black Microsoft optical mouse on a wrist-rest pad. In the centre foreground sits a closed modern black Lenovo ThinkPad laptop, with three stickers that came out of a SteelSeries box. The workspace is in an unfinished basement with pink fiberglass insulation and unfinished wall framing visible in the background.
A beige IBM Aptiva 2153-E2U desktop computer from 1998 is set up on a desk, paired with a matching IBM CRT monitor. The computer tower features a horizontal CD drive at the top, a floppy disk drive, and a power button, along with an original IBM Aptiva sticker near the bottom detailing the model and specs. The adjacent CRT monitor displays the Windows 98 Second Edition desktop, with the System Properties window open. It shows that the system is registered to “Richie” under the humorous business name “Uh… no?”, and lists the manufacturer as IBM Corporation. The hardware specs confirm it’s running on an AMD K6-2 processor at 333MHz with 192MB of RAM, and an ATI Rage 128 graphics card. The desktop background features a repeating red geometric tile pattern. Numerous era-appropriate desktop icons are visible, including games and software such as Midtown Madness, Driver, Test Drive Off-Road 2, Need for Speed: High Stakes, Zuma Deluxe, Stronghold, SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, SimCity Urban Renewal Kit, Rally Championship, Zoo Tycoon, 3D Ultra Pinball 3, and educational software like Type to Learn 3 and The Canadian Encyclopedia. Also on the desktop is a shortcut to Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. The monitor is resting on a beige desk, in front of pink fibreglass insulation and unfinished walls typical of an unfinished basement workspace. A black and grey keyboardl, peeks in from the right edge of the image. Overall, the scene captures a fully functional vintage late-90s IBM PC setup, complete with authentic software and personalized touches.
A compact desktop computer, the Shuttle XPC cube PC. In the center is an HP f1905 monitor displaying a Windows XP desktop with a deep red kaleidoscopic wallpaper. A black and grey Compaq-branded keyboard sits in front, paired with a black Microsoft optical mouse on a padded mousepad. The Shuttle XPC features a front LG optical drive and floppy drive, with glowing blue power LEDs below. On the left, partially visible, is a beige CRT monitor with a powered-off screen. The background is an unfinished wall with exposed insulation and framing. Various desktop icons include GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas, SimCity 4 and Societies, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 and Need for Speed Underground, Zuma Deluxe, Luxor, Type to Learn 3, and the Microsoft Office 2003 suite.
In a dimly lit space, an ultrawide monitor displays a video editing project in DaVinci Resolve. The timeline at the bottom is densely packed with audio and video tracks, color-coded in green and blue, indicating a complex and detailed edit. The top section shows a split preview: the left side displays a retro CRT computer monitor showing colorful low-resolution 3D pool table graphics; the right side shows a hand using a vintage keyboard with a CRT monitor above it and two retro computers. On the left of the screen is the media pool with thumbnails of video clips. The monitor itself is branded “Gigabyte,” and there’s an Xbox controller and miscellaneous items on the desk beneath it.
A retro computer setup in a basement room with exposed insulation on the wall. On the left is a beige IBM Aptiva tower connected to a matching IBM CRT monitor, which displays the puzzle game Zuma Deluxe. In the center is an old Dell mechanical keyboard and a black coffee mug with cream-colored coffee inside. To the right is a white Apple iMac G4, playing an episode of Family Guy featuring the character Lois Griffin. A white Apple keyboard and mouse are placed in front of it, with a stack of CD jewel cases nearby. An IKEA lamp is sitting on top of the Aptiva, and the workspace has a nostalgic, early-2000s tech vibe.
A chibi-style anime character with light brown hair and large, wide green eyes stares blankly with a surprised or shocked expression. The character has blushing cheeks and wears a white nurse hat with a green medical cross and brown animal ears peeking out from underneath. The background is dark and indistinct. Thank you, ChatGPT!
A zoomed in photo showing a Bar Burrito restaurant just behind a black car on a sunny cloudless day.
In a bright room, a top down view of a keyboard on a desk. It’s a beige keyboard from the 1990s with a number pad, and grey modifier keys. It’s labelled as being a Dell QuietKey keyboard.
A very rotund animated chicken with a baffled, wide-eyed look on its face.
On a desk in a brightly lit basement, a very old laptop sits on a desk. It’s dark grey with a light grey keyboard. There is an early 2000s Dell tower on the floor in the background. The screen of the old laptop is black and white with a washed out image, as it’s a passive matrix screen. There is a spot of yellow-looking pixels on the left of the screen roughly in the middle, that appears to be gradually spreading. It’s causing two large horizontal lines to spread across the screen. This is gradual and irreversible degradation of the screen.
Sitting on a desk in a brightly lit unfinished basement, is an early 2000s computer setup. There is a Dell CRT monitor, a Dell Dimension 2200 computer tower? And a Dell keyboard, all in the signature Dell dark bluish-grey colour they were known for in the early 2000s. The CRT is showing a command line output of Neofetch. It says: root@archiso (the install media) OS: Arch Linux i686 Host: Dimension 2200 Kernel: 6.9.7-arch1-1.2 Uptime: 11 minutes Packages: 406 (pacman) Shell: zsh 5.9 Terminal: /dev/tty1 CPU: Intel Celeron 1200MHz (1) @ 1.196 GPU: Intel 82810E DC-133 Memory: 73MiB / 481MiB
A photo of an ultrawide monitor showing a video project in a video editor called DaVinci Resolve. There are a few video, audio, and effect tracks in the timeline, and the project monitors show a shot of a vintage computer setup with a beige CRT showing the Windows 95 boot screen. The shots are stylized with colourful warm, blue, and purple lighting, and the viewer on the right shows several effects applied, such as blooms, blur, scanlines, saturation, and rotoscoped areas for selective colour correction.
Set in an unfinished basement, a 90s computer setup is on a desk, illuminated by cozy lighting. The IBM CRT monitor glows in the dim lighting, and the Packard Bell tower is beige, with grey trim panels on the bottom. On the monitor, the Windows 98 interface is shown, and video animations are opened, more and more and more, until the computer becomes too slow and unresponsive.