Windows 98

There are times I hate throwing things away.  Or even upgrading when I need to.  For me, if it works, why change?  I'm not someone who needs to be on the bleeding edge.  Most of the time, I never really check out all the functionality of what I own.

For example, I own a 62in DLP television set.  I haven't really explored all that the TV will do for me.  It has lots of bells and whistles I haven't explored.  There are inputs I have not clue what they are for.  I did get the composite video hooked up, but I do notice other digital inputs.  Plus the remote is suppose to be universal, but I haven't programmed it for the cable box, stereo, DVD, etc.  So I have a table full of remotes.

I've done very little with my cell phone service.  Its suppose to have call waiting features, conferencing, etc., but I have no clue how to use it.  Mostly, I just haven't looked at the booklet.  I still have the default voice message TMobile offers.  I haven't even customized that.  And it's been almost 3 years. 

As an IT professional, this may be the worst.  In our house we have 2 desktop computers and 2 laptop computers.  Over the years, I have upgraded the 2nd computer's processor and video card.  Right now all it is used for is surfing the web while I play WoW on my primary computer.  Or at least that's what I did do when I played WoW.

As I upgraded, all I did was upgrade the hardware and use the same hard drive I've had for a very long time.  It's not the same hard drive I had 10 years ago, those have died or I have bought an upgrade.  But it is the same Windows 98 first edition.  Yes, that's right.  It's not even Windows 98 SE!!!  That's second edition for you folks, which fixed a lot of issues with Win98.

But I have really not had any problems with it.  I have never had any issue with software installs in the past, and I don't see installing any software in the future on it.  It's mainly a web browser.  One thing that does bug me is that it is not compatible with USB thumb drives.  Win98 SE is, but not this one.

Jumping in the Way Back Machine, there was a time when Netscape was putting out Netscape Navigator suite.  The Suite contain many tools that have disappeared.  One tool was a newsreader that I use to this day.  I've tried other newsreaders, but they do not have the preview abilities the old Netscape one did.

One of these days I'll give up on the machine and either junk it or upgrade the OS.