Michael MJD

a YouTube thumbnail featuring a modified screenshot of the AOL Dialer program. On it is the old "Connecting" screen from '90s-era AOL clients, with the modern AOL logo at the top. To the left is an image of an AOL CD, with text on it that reads "RIP"

New video! Today marks the end of AOL Dial-Up. Because after over 30 years, the service is being retired. So I thought I'd try to dial into the service one last time before we say goodbye.

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a YouTube thumbnail featuring the Windows NT 4 and XP logos, along with the logon screen from each version. In between them is a red arrow.

New video! So it's somehow possible to upgrade from Windows NT 3.51 directly to Windows XP - without going through NT 4 or 2000. And in today's video, we're gonna try it out and see if it works!

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a YouTube thumbnail featuring 2 Windows 10 logos with a red arrow between them, on top of an image of the Start Menu. At the top is text that reads "10 Upgrade Saga"

New video! It's about time we did another Windows Upgrade Saga video. And with Windows 10 going out of support next month, I couldn't think of a more proper send off than to spend several hours upgrading through every version of it!

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a YouTube thumbnail featuring the gOS logo in the foreground. In the background is a screenshot of the gOS desktop, with various Google icons in the dock.

New video! Back in 2007, Google released a Linux distro centered around their various web services. Except... well, they didn't. But somehow gOS became a thing anyway.

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the AuctionWeb logo.

30 years ago today, eBay was founded as AuctionWeb.

a YouTube thumbnail featuring an Intel Compute Stick next to its box sitting on a wooden table. In the background is the "Installing Windows 11" screen from the Windows 11 setup process. There is text below it that reads "Everything Went Wrong..."

New video! So today we're gonna find out if the 1st gen Intel Compute Stick can run Windows 11. It doesn't seem like it... but it's worth a try, right?

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a YouTube thumbnail featuring the Special Edition Windows 95 box sitting on a wooden table. There is an arrow pointing to it, with text on the right side that reads "Special Edition"

New video! To celebrate 30 years of Windows 95, I tracked down the super rare Special Edition copy that was given out at the launch event in Redmond, WA. So let's open it up and do a good ol' fashioned OS install!

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Video coming today!

The "Welcome to Microsoft Windows" screen, seen at the beginning of Windows XP's Out-of-Box Experience.

On this day in 2001, Windows XP was released to manufacturing.

There will be a video on this 👀

a YouTube thumbnail featuring Xubuntu with the Windows XP total conversion mod applied. The replica Start Menu is opened, and the desktop wallpaper is set to Bliss. The Linux "Tux" mascot it peeking out from behind the Start Menu. There is text on the right side that reads "this isn't Windows"

New video! Today we're exploring a total conversion project for XFCE that gives it a very convincing Windows XP look.

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a YouTube thumbnail featuring the AnduinOS desktop and logo.

New video! Well here's something you don't see everyday. In this video, we're gonna explore a Linux distro that made headlines recently for being developed by a (former) Microsoft employee.

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a YouTube thumbnail featuring the Microsoft Zune, along with the Zune Logo to the right side. On the Zune's screen is the home screen from version 1.0 of the software.

New video! Today we're taking a deep dive into the Microsoft Zune. What was supposed to be Microsoft's answer to the iPod ended up being a failure of a product that people love to point and laugh at today. But was it really that bad?

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Tomorrow

Windows 10 desktop.

10 years ago today, Windows 10 was released.

oh would you look at that... it's available for patrons RIGHT NOW 👀

a Microsoft Zune being held above a wooden table. Visible to the right is the Zune box, along with the Eddy "Reliable" Trustman bobble-head. There is a 3D printed Clippy mascot is near the top of the image. To the left is a shelf that has boxed copies of Windows 98 and OS/2.

Coming Zune...

Michael MJD after buying too many apple adapters that end up not being compatible with the machine in front of him.
I thought it would be funny to draw this poorly.

#art

a YouTube thumbnail featuring a phone running Windows 7 being held above a wooden table. On screen is the default Windows 7 desktop wallpaper, with the start menu open.

New video! Today we're exploring a Japanese-exclusive phone from 2011 that runs Windows 7. And no... I don't mean Windows Phone 7. This thing has an x86 processor and is even capable of being hooked up to an external display. Easily one of the coolest phones I've ever seen.

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a YouTube thumbnail featuring a mid-2009 MacBook Pro sitting on a wooden table. On screen is the macOS Tahoe default wallpaper, with text that reads "macOS Tahoe on a 2009 MacBook?"

New video! After two weeks of trying, here's my experience getting Tahoe to run on something it was never designed to run on...

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a YouTube thumbnail featuring a Raspberry Pi 5 layered on top of the Windows 11 default wallpaper. To the right is the Raspberry Pi logo, but in blue instead of the usual red. At the top is text that reads "Windows on a Pi 5!"

New video! Today we're gonna find out if its possible to install Windows 11 on the Raspberry Pi 5. Let's see what I got myself into this time...

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A screenshot of a page on Apple's website that says "iPhone 4 is here." To the left of the text is a photo of the iPhone 4, and underneath are 3 video links that read "Watch the Keynote, Watch the iPhone 4 video, and Watch the FaceTime video" respectively.

15 years ago today, the iPhone 4 went on sale.

25 years ago today, Windows Me was released to manufacturing.

a photo of Steve Ballmer

45 years ago today, Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft.

a YouTube thumbnail featuring the Fydetab Duo on a wooden table. On screen is the Windows 11 setup wizard, modified with a button that says "Screw this up." There is a cursor pointing to the button. Also on screen is the Linux "Tux" mascot with a "do not" symbol over it. To the right of the tablet is a price tag that reads "~$750" Above the setup wizard is text that reads "Everything Went Wrong..."

New video! Today we're revisiting that Linux tablet sent out to me by the people behind FydeOS. And this time around, we're gonna how easy it is to run Windows 11 on it.

(spoiler... it's not very easy)

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OS/2 logo.

40 years ago today, Microsoft and IBM entered into a joint development agreement to co-develop the OS/2 operating system. This agreement fell through in the early '90s, after which IBM became the sole developer of OS/2.

can't believe we're getting iOS 26 before GTA 6

iPhone 3GS banner as seen on Apple's website. It reads "iPhone 3GS: The fastest, most powerful iPhone yet."

On this day in 2009, Apple unveiled the iPhone 3GS at WWDC.

a YouTube thumbnail featuring the CR-48 laptop sitting on a wooden table, with an old ChromeOS sign-in screen displayed. To the left is the old Google Chrome logo, with text that reads "Classic ChromeOS!"

New video! So is it possible to restore Google's prototype CR-48 Chromebook to its original OS version? That's what I attempt to find out in this video. And in the process, we get to explore how different ChromeOS looked over a decade ago.

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Windows 2.1 desktop.

On this day in 1988, Microsoft released Windows 2.1.