About
This site started back in early 2021 as a way for me to share my hobbies and my retro computing knowledge, as well as for expanding my web development skills. This is, like, the 4th rewrite of the website and I can say that with each one it gets even better. It still is kinda spaghetti code but is overall much nicer and readable than it was in the beginning. I hope to get this site even farther in the future if I find the possibility to do so.
I'm skip (very original name, I know), also known as skipster-1337 on reddit. I consider myself someone who thinks early 2000's computers are pretty neat, mostly because I grew up with one. I also like them because they are fun to do random things with. Most people say they aren't worth anything (and they're partially right), but in fact they are quite capable of modern day things such as web browsing (to a certain extent).
I have 3 older-than-usual computers in various stages of usability - an Acer Travelmate 2490 (Celeron M 430, 2GB DDR2, GMA 950, WinXP), an HP 550 (Core2Duo T5470, 4GB DDR2, GMA X3100, Win7), and my very first computer that is currently in storage (Sempron64 3K+, 1.5GB DDR1, VIA/S3G Unichrome Pro IGP, WinXP). Really I'm pretty happy with these computers as they were (and still are) great machines for their time.
You should also check out these places if you like Windows XP:
The r/WindowsXP community Discord server