30 Nostalgic Computer Screenshots Millennials And GenX Will Remember As Clearly As The Pixels Were Blurry

Before smartphones made everything boringly efficient, technology was clunky, loud, and somehow more magical.

These snapshots are a time capsule of when tech came with cords, mystery, and that satisfying click.

Whether you remember blowing into cartridges or watching the little AOL guy connect to the internet, this one’s for you.

It’s a nostalgic stroll down a wired memory lane.

1. Snood

2. America Online

3. Winamp Skin: S2 High End

4. AIM – the original “sliding into the DMS”

5. Downloading Netscape

6. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (1998)

7. Geocities

8. Windows 98 Plus: Geometry

9. ltaVista (1999)

10. Sonique media player (1998)

11. Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1992)

12. Cheat Codes.com

13. Plus! Aquarium

14. Zoo Tycoon (2003)

15. Windows 98

16. Quake III Arena

17. Hollywood High (1996)

18. UCLA’s website in 1997

19. Compuserve 3.0

20. Yahoo!

21. Star Wars Dark Forces (1995)

22. Metallica Windows Theme

23. Look at that start menu! Glorious!

24. Mac OS 8 (1997)

25. Download dot com for Deus Ex (2000)

26. SimTown (1995)

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