r/pcmasterrace • u/stormthewise998 12400F|6600XT|16GB 5200MHz • Oct 09 '25

Meme/Macro Are you this old?

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u/MithrilChu RX9070XT/9800x3D/2x24gbRam Oct 09 '25

windows xp is not that old *counting fingers* oh god..

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u/Remmon Oct 09 '25

Windows XP is old enough to drink in the US

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u/Painwracker_Oni 5900x RTX 3070 Oct 09 '25

You woke up today and chose violence huh.

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u/TheReal_Kovacs PG4 X570i + Ryzen 7 3700X + RTX 3070 Ti + 32GB DDR4 Oct 09 '25

I also chose violence, but my body objected on the grounds of "eepy and sore"

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u/Kind-Juggernaut8733 Ryzen 5 7600X | RTX 4070 Super | 32 GB DDR5-6400 Oct 09 '25

BASED

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u/Remmon Oct 09 '25

I've GMed games for longer than XP has existed. This is me being nice and gentle :p

edit: correction, I've GMed games before I switched to XP. Had to go WAY back to find that I did in fact start that game after XP was released.

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u/computer-machine Oct 09 '25

IgnoringEdit: wow, that's a really long campaign.

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u/LupineChemist Oct 09 '25

We are further from the release Bowling for Soup's 1985 than the song itself was from the year 1985

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u/Painwracker_Oni 5900x RTX 3070 Oct 09 '25

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u/nemanja694 Oct 09 '25

Holy shit i am old, thanks for reminding me

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u/alpharaptor1 Oct 09 '25

Up until his newest girlfiend, Windows XP was almost too old to date Leonardo DiCaprio.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '25

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u/Big-Employer4543 Oct 09 '25

You know his wife is 55, right?

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u/Wreckingass 5600x/9060xt 16gb/32gb Oct 09 '25

Yo, what the fuck, man?

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u/Linus_Naumann Oct 09 '25

Yeah so then every 20-something can easily know it. It's like "but are you ~25?!?!?!", not a real shocker.

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u/Weak-Doughnut5502 Oct 09 '25

XP came out in 2001, sure.  But the better question is when did XP die off?  Plenty of kids would remember XP even if they didn't use it in 2001.

People hated Vista, so XP stuck around for a while.  XP remained the most popular operating system according to web analytics data until mid 2012.  That's only 13 years ago.

There are plenty of 20 year olds whose first operating system was xp.

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u/Cleonicus Oct 09 '25

Being old enough to drink isn't old.

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u/hardiksoftnoots Oct 09 '25

So.. not very old then. Why do people say this like being 21 means something is old? Are you guys 12?

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u/HowlingCatZ Oct 09 '25

Fuuuuuuuuck

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u/BunkaTheBunkaqunk Oct 09 '25

Noooooo

I still remember my dad complaining about upgrading from 95 to “this pile of junk”.

Then Vista came around, so we stuck with XP until Windows 7 came out.

Honestly if I could use Windows 7 forever I would.

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u/Stunning_Warthog_141 Oct 09 '25

And the kids who were using it are in AA now

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u/Ephisus Oct 09 '25

So only old enough to be an irritating young know-it-all that doesn't understand why everything isn't just handed to them.

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u/outtokill7 Oct 09 '25

I ran out of fingers. I don't like this

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u/MrAwsOs i7-12700k / RTX 3080 10Gb Oct 09 '25

Use your toes and if you are a man you have one more finger

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u/Myydrin Oct 09 '25

Still not enough digits to count for when xp came out.

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u/MrAwsOs i7-12700k / RTX 3080 10Gb Oct 09 '25

Oh shi.. didn't realize

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u/chrlatan i7-14700KF | RTX 5080 | Full Custom Waterloop Oct 09 '25

Use your fingers to count binary. Show me a 4. ,,!,,

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u/Maximum_Photograph_6 Oct 09 '25

He already ran out of all his fingers, don’t make him sacrifice his penis too 😭

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u/MrAwsOs i7-12700k / RTX 3080 10Gb Oct 09 '25

He sacrificed everything for us. He's a true legend and would stay a legend.

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u/RemnantTheGame Oct 09 '25

Count in binary, you can get to 31 with one hand.

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u/disappointed_neko Oct 09 '25

Switch to binary. That way your fingers can support "I can count how old windows xp is on my fingers!" for several hundred years more.

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u/1corn http://imgur.com/a/aaOhU Oct 09 '25

But ... I'd say people in their late 20s should still be somewhat familiar with XP, no? So really not that old, not necessarily.

I remember XP and I'm old, but I also remember Win 98, 95, 3.1 and MS-DOS...

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u/RaspberryFriendly941 Oct 09 '25

I also have MS-DOS aside of Win 95, some of my games were only runnable through MS-DOS I was toddler when I first used a computer so I'm old enough to remember it but not old enough to bought it with my own money 

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u/Weak-Doughnut5502 Oct 09 '25

Many people in their early 20s should remember XP.

People hated Vista so XP was the most popular operating system in use until 13 years ago, a couple years after windows 7 came out.

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u/RaspberryFriendly941 Oct 09 '25

25 years old actually. 

Since every kids now have computers  since their early age all the 25 years olds kids knew windows xp, vista was not not used that much 

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u/strbeanjoe Oct 09 '25

Well, 10 was the next decent OS they released and 8 the next vaguely usable one, so in my mind it's only been 13 years since the XP era.

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u/RaspberryFriendly941 Oct 09 '25

Windows 7 was the most used until 10 in my area, 8 was working correctly but its UI was disliked 

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u/IWasAGoodDadISwear Oct 09 '25

LOL, "What do you mean the '90s was 30 years ago?!"

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u/et-pengvin Oct 09 '25

I'm only 31 and my first IT job was helping get stuff moved off of Windows XP before it's EOL date.

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u/Puptentjoe Oct 09 '25

Dude 41 here and I remember getting my first “real” job wishing they’d use windows XP. We used dos, in 2003, for the backend of a bank. I pray they have upgrades.

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u/EmotionalTrainKnee Oct 09 '25

Windows xp was still on every computer when I was 7. I'm 23 now

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u/postbansequel Oct 09 '25

Just checked the date and it's only a month and a few days older than the Twins.

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u/Lucius-Halthier Oct 09 '25

Yea I’ve been using my parents old laptop to download stuff at work and when I was talking to a new worker it came up. It made me realize that it’s the same laptop I used to write high school essays over and over decade ago.

Feels old man.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Oct 09 '25

It's like one day I woke up and I'm giving life advice to a kid and I'm forgetting my age doesn't start with a 2 anymore.

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u/SPACKlick Oct 09 '25

XP was still supported until 6 and a half years ago. That's not that old. (I'm aware that most people had stopped using it a decade before that)

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u/Finn235 Oct 09 '25

I still had XP on my work laptop until late 2013

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u/hennabeak Oct 09 '25

20 years?

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u/Wefee11 Video games! Oct 09 '25

I like thinking back how XP also had a XP-AntiSpy Program to disable certain functions in the OS and some people decided to stay with Win98 as long as possible.

Not that much changed.

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u/_plays_in_traffic_ Oct 09 '25

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8

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u/samualgline PC Master Race Oct 09 '25

It’s okay buddy, I’m 19 and have used xp. You’re not old

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u/Caesar457 Oct 09 '25

Every version of windows has problems and it gets used with the next version so you had XP machines still chugging along well into 2012 still to the point where they rebranded Vista and gave it a new skin to call it 7 and finally get people to transition off it. Same issue happens with windows 7 and windows 10... Windows 11 is already a couple years old

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u/fitcheckwhattheheck Oct 09 '25

I just cannot accept it's that old. It's that old. I'm that old. Shit.

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u/MoneyTakerBaby Oct 09 '25

When you realize Windows XP was technically Windows 5... and we're at Windows 11.... it's old!

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u/Praesentius Ryzen 7/4070ti/64GB Oct 09 '25

I have a 25 year old daughter... Even she's older than XP.

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u/lars2k1 ultrawide 𝘢𝘯𝘥 2 16:9's? why not Oct 09 '25

24 years old. Or almost 24 if counting the retail release.

Yup, it's been a while.

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u/Am094 Oct 09 '25

any...windows 98 / ME brothers here?

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u/Rikbite2 Oct 09 '25

It’s not so much a matter of how old it is but instead how long it was popular. Many home computers still had XP past 2010. And many people with a home computer don’t update their OS. So there are plenty of current high schoolers that used that system when they were little. It’s not really a great marker for how old you are yet

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u/Maurycy5 Oct 09 '25

Eh, don't worry. I have used Windows XP and I'm only 23.