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▲ ddtaylor 9 hours ago

Don't forget Winblows

▲lelanthran 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Another oldie

"If you play the Win98 CD backwards, it summons Satan. It's worse when you play it forwards - it installs Windows"

Ah, good times... :-)

▲badocr 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have a "quotes.txt" from slashdot days with some MS jabs in it:

> Last week, I left my 2 XP CDs on my dashboard in plain view. Someone broke into my car and left 2 more.

> The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.

> A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine

Juvenile some might say, but they still makes me giggle.

▲hulitu 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> > The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.

"The only Microsoft product that doesn't suck is the Microsoft vacuum cleaner."

That's what I remember. And true to this day.

▲phs318u an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Greetings fellow old person. You totally took me back to 2000. And here’s me thinking I was the only one harvesting pithy quotes from /.

I always loved the “doesn’t suck vacuum”, but amazingly never came across the Win98 CD line. Love it.

▲jackdoe 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I had to reinstall win98 so many times I still remember the pirate key k4hvdq9tj96crx9c9g68rq2d3 by heart

good times :)

▲ValentineC 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I guess I was more of the FCKGW generation. :)

▲deltoidmaximus 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

IIRC with Windows 98 you could just use any product key you had on as many machines as you wanted since there was no activation or real phoning home capabilities. So most likely your whole friend group would be using the same serial that was copied off your uncle's old gateway.

▲Tade0 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ah, FuCK Gates, William.

I think there were at least three other commonly used codes, but this one was by far the most popular.

▲mghackerlady 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm pretty sure 000-0000000 worked (at least on windows 95)

▲bitwize 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

FuCKinG Windows

▲riddley 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Outbreak Express!

▲bitwize 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It was "Outhouse Express" and "GruntPage" for me in the late 90s. I still use these for software I find particularly irksome, for example Conscrewence from AtlASSian.

▲craftkiller 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It was always "Microshit" to me