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One that seems a lot more core to “old style” Windows to me was the labyrinthine dialog tunnels one had to traverse to change some settings, which persisted thr
by kitsunesoba 5y ago
One that seems a lot more core to “old style” Windows to me was the labyrinthine dialog tunnels one had to traverse to change some settings, which persisted through XP and didn’t really start getting better until Vista/7. Half the secret to being “good with computers” back then was just remembering which branch of the cave system you needed to take to toggle a particular checkbox.
- mcswell 5y agoProbably written by somebody who used their computer to play D&D all day. You are in a maze of twisty passages, all the same...
- pie_flavor 5y agoThat's Zork, not D&D.
- mcswell 5y agoOops. I guess that shows to go, I don't play computer games...
- Aloha 5y agoFor good or for bad, We got used to the labyrinthine dialog tunnels. It's no different than building up the option flags in a bash or powershell one liner. It's the direct graphical translation even.
- evilduck 5y ago11 is better but there's still a few of these tunnel vestiges that show up, like removing a driver from a hardware device or adding NTP servers.