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Prank Windows XP simulator
- antoineMoPa 5y agoYou have to try the command prompt.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- wesleyoldaker 5y agoThe prank won't work at all if there are advertisements embedded in it. :/
- mzkply 5y agosite's already dead
- ovi256 5y agoThese are pretty imaginative. I like the macOS update screen that fails to a kernel panic if you click it. That would get me pretty good.
- agys 5y agoShut down is pretty good.
- Freaken 5y agoGreat touch triggering a BSOD when opening Internet Explorer!
- MarkusWandel 5y agoThis is great! Even though I skipped the whole Windows XP era by being primarily a Linux user all that time, and know it's all fake, the slight panic at what happens when you try to launch a program is real.
- dm319 5y agoDarn I wish I'd come across Linux before. I was starting university and my Amiga A1200 was just too incompatible with everything. I spent ages weighing up a powerbook with the shiny new OSX or a Thinkpad T40 with XP. In the end I was most impressed with the reliability of the ThinkPad, but those years spent fighting XP when I could have been using Linux - I regret! When I discovered Ubuntu 9.04, I felt like my love of computing had returned.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoLinux and OSX weren't that great in the early years. And XP was one of the best Windows, minus a few glaring holes. Some of which could be patched over with third-party apps and some completely missing, like a modern terminal. Bottom line, XP was about the best there was just after the turn of the century, assuming you were safe behind a NAT and smart enough to use the new Firefox rather than IE in the coming years.
- dm319 5y agoYes, and that was my assessment at the time. XP wasn't bad, but it got so bloated with, I think, SP2. I got frustrated that things would go wrong with it, and I could never find a definitive explanation online to fix it. There were usually webpages with 10 random things you could try in an attempt to resolve it, and weirdly I discovered that same community was still present for Win10. For years using XP I felt I never personally advanced in my ability to use a computer, whereas I feel my time on Linux has been a journey. But you're right, things may not have panned out of I'd either gone for OSX early on or Linux might have been not quite ready for me at that time.
- MarkusWandel 5y agoA complex Linux setup - I run a 3-seat multiuser setup on a massive old gaming box that uses too much power constantly to be worth running otherwise - can certainly deliver bang-your-head-against-the-wall frustration. Such as when the binary Brother scanner driver installs without any missing dependencies, and only much googling finds that you need to install some 32 bit libraries that it doesn't mention not being able to open. Or when the multiseat setup that I use is casually broken by update to the gdm greeter, with no plans to fix it again (luckily lightdm works). Or if you try to use a Bluetooth headset... However, I have not encountered the following, which has so far twice happened in Windows 10: Some hexadecimal error number that IT doesn't know about, Microsoft denies would ever happen, and the anecdotal discussions on the internet offer 10 different kinds of voodoo that will fix it for sure, except that none of them do (you can tell just from the number of different things they tell you to try). At least with Linux the rabbit hole goes all the way down; if all else fails you can dig in the source code.
- MiddleEndian 5y agoUnfortunately, if you bring your cursor to the top of the screen there's a message (in Firefox) and an X (in Chrome) that inform the user that they are in a full screen webpage.
- forgotpwd16 5y agoRun, if Chromium (or Chrome) chromium --kiosk <url> or, similarly for Firefox firefox --new-window --kiosk <url> For Chromium the `--new-window` argument doesn't open in kiosk mode. In order to work no other instance must run.
- MiddleEndian 5y agoI am definitely using this on my friend's living room computer. "Linux was acting weird so I installed Windows"
- xwx 5y agoThis happens if you press F11. If you click the balloon that says "Start the prank" instead then you won't get this issue, at least in Firefox.
- pragmatick 5y agoCannot confirm - it just takes a while to show. You can still press Esc which is what most users might do when panicking.
- ptr 5y agoMy immersion was lost when the BSOD didn't hang the music
- kaltuer 5y agoI love how responsive it is when you drag the windows across the screen. Also, I missed encountering the blue screen of death; it's been so long since I experienced one myself.
- 002445 5y agoAnyone else got stuck playing tetris forgetting how you got there?
- ooboe 5y agoI got lost with minesweeper.
- danmur 5y agooh yeah
- jrwoodruff 5y agoDefinitely played tetris way too long lol
- cadr 5y agoI kind of wished the tetris game messed with you. Like have some crazy shape or have the score go all over the place. Somehow I think that would get more people that the xp theme itself.
- satya71 5y agoLove the WinAmp
- megraf 5y agoNice little surprise in CMD. Well done!
- moron4hire 5y agoIt's showing all the resizing chrome for the task bar, but the task bar is not resizable.
- janlukacs 5y agoI panicked even at the fake BSOD... so many memories. Winamp still looks good.
- StavrosK 5y agoI remember in the era of Windows XP, I had downloaded a BSOD screensaver. Unfortunately, it never worked, as the few times I tried to preview it, it kept crashing the system. ...I realized why at around the fourth try.
- Yhippa 5y agoWinamp really brings back some memories!
- danjaco 5y agoI love the nostalgia, it is truly immersive, especially when you encounter blue screen in the most unexpected manner.
- varispeed 5y agoThis is so realistic!
- Narishma 5y agoExcept for the fonts. These web recreations of older GUIs always get the fonts wrong.
- tyingq 5y agoI get a Dell BIOS after the BSOD, and I'm running a Dell. Coincidence, or does it detect the vendor?
- throwaway123x2 5y agoOh God, even though I knew what it was, my heart still skipped beats at the BSOD and the reformat
- Syonyk 5y agoSeriously. I was running it windowed, on a Linux box. And it still triggered the "... oh F---!" response. Very, very well done. I've not seen it in decades, but there was a great little site in a similar vein years ago that would detect your OS (Windows or Linux) and be an "animated GIF" of a remote exploit of some sort or another, the usual "run exploit, grab root, run id to prove you're root" thing (the Windows version was similar). Except, it was dynamic based on your public IP. So most people didn't get it. And sysadmin types, who usually did know their public IP, had to restart their heart.
- MayeulC 5y agoThis just made me realize how great Tetris could be to build up muscle memory for vim keys: I recently arranged my directional key like that on a separate layer (just got an ergodox).
- pkaye 5y agoI was watching Kitboga on YouTube prank scammers with some Windows simulators. Its pretty hilarious to watch.
- bwat49 5y agothat channel is endless entertainment, I love it
- rscoots 5y agoGreat stuff! But where are the Windows Vista references?
- fny 5y agoWow the site is responsive!
- ahmedfromtunis 5y agoI miss the "screen-destroying" hammer. It was a good way to relieve some stress.
- Ombudsman 5y agoA Windows XP simulator without 3D Pinball?
- anthk 5y agoWell, with the JS PC emulator from Bellard (or the Risc-V one), you could run Windows XP in the web the same way you can with Windows 2000. https://bellard.org/jslinux/ https://bellard.org/jslinux/
- dmitrygr 5y agoCute, but it it failed on click #2. "Show Desktop" indeed miminizes all windows. But clicking it again should restore them to where they were when "Show Desktop" was last clicked. It instead does nothing.
- HenryBemis 5y agoThe "Hacker" mode needs update.. it has BTC9 and writes it's approximately $44k ;) That's old news! :)
- antisol 5y agoNot quite as good as Windows RG ;)
- second--shift 5y agothis is cute but modern web sites won't work in the embedded Internet Explorer - I kept getting an error "Firefox won't display this page in an embedded page - click here to open in new tab"
- ChrisArchitect 5y agoFrom earlier than 2018 maybe See also: https://geekprank.com/jurassic-park/ https://geekprank.com/jurassic-park/ https://geekprank.com/pipes/ https://geekprank.com/pipes/ https://geekprank.com/hacker/ https://geekprank.com/hacker/ https://geekprank.com/fbi-warning/ https://geekprank.com/fbi-warning/
- piinbinary 5y agoThis reminds me of "Window 93" [0] [0] https://www.windows93.net/ https://www.windows93.net/