1. The first thing you saw when you turned on the computer was this green screen.
2. You checked out your emails on the late Outlook Express.
3. When you were bored, you played around in Paint.
4. Or with WordArt when things got really desperate.
5. Sometimes this guy would try to help out.
Or one of these dudes:
6. You must have played Windows games like Bow and Arrow.
7. Solitaire.
8. Minesweeper.
9. And even 3D Pinball.
10. If you went a long time without touching the computer, this screensaver would pop up.
11. Or this one with the brick maze.
12. This one with the castaway if you were really cool.
13. If all you had was the 3D words, you were pretty basic.
14. Back then, you had to click "Autorun.exe" to start some programs.
15. Among them, games like Doom.
16. And Age of Empires, of course.
17. Oh! And who could forget SimCity.
18. During that time, console emulators gained a lot of popularity.
19. And there were a lot of ROM sites back them, even though they weren't technically legal.
20. GetRight saved our lives, because it made it possible to continue downloading after the internet crashed.
21. And WinZip was the most used program on your machine.
22. If you wanted to listen to a song, you would open up CD Player.
23. Or download some MP3s on Napster.
24. Or Kazaa if you were truly l33t.
25. Or maybe even Emule.
26. You probably remember Geocities-izing webpages.
27. Or maybe creating your own page using Angelfire.
28. Oh, and floppy disks were still a thing.
This post was translated from Portuguese.