In Forum: Microsoft Operating Systems
By User: SpiralVortex
Today's world would simply not be possible with the software or hardware of March 2003.
Although you're technically correct (as DX11 wasn't around, nor was HTML 5) you could have come pretty close to it. Javascript, PHP, Java etc were all available and of course XP was the defacto OS of the time.
I for one use my PC much as I did 10 years ago - surfing the Web, playing games, tinkering with website coding. Ditto 15 years ago (albeit much more slowly online due to a 14K modem). It's only when you go back 20 years that things were massively different (largely due to no Internet or online access in my case, although no sound card meant no listening to music and there were no DVDs either). I still played games though! It's scary to think that Doom will be 20 years old this December...
As for forums, they've been around since last millennium and going strongly too (DVDforums circa 2000 springs to mind, also Slashdot). Before then we used Usenet, which was itself bustling with posters and there were (and still are) groups for pretty much any subject you care to mention.
PS - Netscape etc were available under 16-bit Windows and they could run Javascript etc too. The only snag was that you had to use something like Trumpet Winsock or software provided by your ISP to get online. Windows 95 made it much easier with its built-in DUN/TCP support.
By User: SpiralVortex
Today's world would simply not be possible with the software or hardware of March 2003.
Although you're technically correct (as DX11 wasn't around, nor was HTML 5) you could have come pretty close to it. Javascript, PHP, Java etc were all available and of course XP was the defacto OS of the time.
I for one use my PC much as I did 10 years ago - surfing the Web, playing games, tinkering with website coding. Ditto 15 years ago (albeit much more slowly online due to a 14K modem). It's only when you go back 20 years that things were massively different (largely due to no Internet or online access in my case, although no sound card meant no listening to music and there were no DVDs either). I still played games though! It's scary to think that Doom will be 20 years old this December...
As for forums, they've been around since last millennium and going strongly too (DVDforums circa 2000 springs to mind, also Slashdot). Before then we used Usenet, which was itself bustling with posters and there were (and still are) groups for pretty much any subject you care to mention.
PS - Netscape etc were available under 16-bit Windows and they could run Javascript etc too. The only snag was that you had to use something like Trumpet Winsock or software provided by your ISP to get online. Windows 95 made it much easier with its built-in DUN/TCP support.