SpiceWorld Movie 2014 – '90s Tech Nightmare

mariojpena · 2014-09-25T18:03:07.000Z

Greetings, SpiceHeads!

Feeling nostalgic for Netscape and Clippy? Sitting around in your JNCO Jeans with nothing to do? Longing for the familiar hum of dial-up? We thought so.

For those of you who were able to make it down to Austin, hope you had a blast at another epic SpiceWorld. Couldn’t be there in person (or missed the live stream)? Too bad … NOT. We’ve got ya covered with our latest SpiceWorld blockbuster!

Gary-D-Williams · 2014-09-26T18:04:19.000Z

Awesome, I started out as a tech in the 90’s and there were a lot of nice little references there! The sound of dial up and netscape navigator are two things I shall never forget.

nerdydad · 2014-09-26T18:21:24.000Z

I grew up in the 90’s and started to get into computers when the Internet first came out to the public. We never used AOL, but I keep a few CD’s around as coasters.

I am with Gary in remembering the dial-up tones.

zwright · 2014-09-26T20:21:59.000Z

I remember being a wee lad using my mom’s company funded home desktop and notebook; both IBM of course. I was lucky enough to be handed down a disc with both DOOM and Descent on it. Thus my IT career and gamer hobbies were born!

daveboring · 2014-09-26T22:13:52.000Z

That was awesome! That Tiffany Amber Thiesen poster was the 90s version of the Farrah Fawcett poster in the 70s. Classic!

xtroublex · 2014-09-26T23:48:00.000Z

i was rocking bolderdash on a commadore 64/128 great memories

aceofspades · 2014-09-27T10:36:32.000Z

I love the video, well done!

kris · 2014-09-27T20:01:57.000Z

zwrightTM:

I remember being a wee lad using my mom’s company funded home desktop and notebook; both IBM of course. I was lucky enough to be handed down a disc with both DOOM and Descent on it. Thus my IT career and gamer hobbies were born!

Fun story… around 1994 or so, I went home for a weekend. I had a copy of Descent and wanted to play it. Of course, my parents’ desktop did not have enough available HDD space, so I “cleaned up some stuff”. Descent installed and played quite nicely. My dad’s home accounting software, not so much…

tylerlagrange2319 · 2014-09-29T12:36:09.000Z

“Reboot it?!..guess I’ll find something to do for a half hour” hahaha

This video was awesome - reminds me of when I first started getting into computers…damn, the 90s were so awesome.

zwright · 2014-09-29T15:30:39.000Z

Kris (Spiceworks):

zwrightTM:

I remember being a wee lad using my mom’s company funded home desktop and notebook; both IBM of course. I was lucky enough to be handed down a disc with both DOOM and Descent on it. Thus my IT career and gamer hobbies were born!

Fun story… around 1994 or so, I went home for a weekend. I had a copy of Descent and wanted to play it. Of course, my parents’ desktop did not have enough available HDD space, so I “cleaned up some stuff”. Descent installed and played quite nicely. My dad’s home accounting software, not so much…

Similar memories with Windows 98 and D2:LOD… I decided that that there were a bunch of really small files under C:/Windows and C:/Program Files that were taking up space. The game loaded just fine. OS, not so much…

I’m surprised I was able to install both games off of one disc though. Good times.

pgillin-ibm · 2014-09-29T17:16:36.000Z

I guess I had wiped my memory of what a crappy decade that actually was! Remember Y2K?

tylerlagrange2319 · 2014-10-02T10:16:32.000Z

pgillin:

I guess I had wiped my memory of what a crappy decade that actually was! Remember Y2K?

Hey now, you know that we don’t talk about Y2K.

ryancomeau-1000 · 2014-10-08T16:48:48.000Z

Hey how about before the Internet was actually born and we had a whooping 1.4K modem into B.B.S’? and playing ascii games like l.o.r.d? classic!

grobertson · 2014-10-20T22:49:10.000Z

setting IRQ,s and DMA’s … mucking about with autoexec to get some highmem back … good times …

bazgiles2 · 2014-10-22T06:00:20.000Z

this is awesome.

ashleylewis · 2014-11-05T15:42:18.000Z

The biggest headaches for me were connecting to dial-up and getting told to get off as someone wanted to make a call and installing a game roughly 23MB in size only having a 20MB HDD!

Grr!

ashleylewis · 2014-11-05T15:42:20.000Z

The biggest headaches for me were connecting to dial-up and getting told to get off as someone wanted to make a call and installing a game roughly 23MB in size only having a 20MB HDD!

Grr!

mike-eaton · 2025-04-22T09:29:51.010Z

Hello from 2025!!

DailyLlama · 2025-04-22T09:51:32.580Z

Wow, a better plot and special effects than some Hollywood blockbusters!

graeme-n · 2025-04-22T23:16:32.411Z

Word!