I used Windows 98 for a weekend. It's surprisingly interesting.

(12 May 2026) So, I normally give myself access to newer OSes when I daily drive an older OS for a set amount of time, and thus need to promote the use of that older OS even if I don't need to. But this time, I've taken the liberty of making the only newer OS available to be Windows XP. And that's not even what I'm using this time, either: That would be Windows 98. But, only for a weekend. Regardless, why am I doing this, how am I doing this, and since when did I have a Windows 98 laptop?

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Software used

- DaVinci Resolve 20.3.2

- Audacity 3.7.7

- Paint.NET 5.1.12

Music (in chronological order)

- "Eyes on You" by Network 415, YouTube Audio Library

- "Ether Oar" by The Whole Other, YouTube Audio Library

- "June" by Bobby Richards, YouTube Audio Library

- "Rest" by Otis McDonald, YouTube Audio Library

- "Sunday" by Otis McDonald, YouTube Audio Library

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Media used

- ASUS_Transformer_Book_T100.jpg by Cheon Fong Liew, CC BY-SA 2.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 - via Wikimedia Commons

- DaVinci_Resolve_Studio.png By Blackmagic Design - Blackmagic Design - DaVinci Resolve Studio 18, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=125135238

- Microsoft_Windows_Millenium_Edition_Logo.svg.png, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23307953

- Pentium_II_original_case_badge.png By Intel - Intel, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55827857

- Windows_7_Logo_and_Wordmark.svg.png By https://betawiki.net/wiki/File:Windows_7.svg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73545020

- Windows_XP_logo_and_wordmark.svg.png By https://betawiki.net/wiki/File:Windows_XP_logo_and_wordmark.svg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73545809