{"id":237,"date":"2019-04-10T03:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=237"},"modified":"2020-05-20T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:22:23","slug":"hello-xp-my-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Hello XP My Old Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just installed Windows XP successfully! Can’t believe how stupidly happy I am right now ?<\/p>\n

So we have this really old computer at the office. It has a FPT Elead brand and was manufactured in 2009. I bought it second-hand for 2 million dong. It used to run on Windows 7, but was so slow that we just let students do entrance tests on it.<\/p>\n

I knew that Windows 7 was too much for this dinosaur so I wanted to have XP on it. I made a bootable USB drive, and after a couple of hours Googling and struggling with all the UEFI, GPT, asms, AHCI configurations (if you knew any of those terms, you’d understand the pain), I finally got XP to run.<\/p>\n

I can’t believe how excited I was upon seeing the blue XP setup screen! It was like a wave of nostalgia sweeping over all at once.<\/p>\n

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The legendary 3D blue hue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See that screen right above? I’ve seen it so many times! I had my first computer in 2002. In 2006 I built a PC by myself with parts bought from Tr\u1ea7n Anh, and between that year and 2009 I must have installed and re-installed XP close to a hundred times.<\/p>\n

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At one point I typed the CD key in so much that I even had the serial number memorised! I can’t remember crap this time, so I just took a picture of the CD key off the computer screen.<\/p>\n

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The glorious default wallpaper and the mystifying 3D blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally the desktop screen came up! Took me another hour to find the right audio, graphics drivers, and browser for this ancient piece of machinery. It was 1 am, but I can’t say I was tired at all. So happy to go over the old 3D icons, the familiar Windows sounds, the legendary wallpapers (Bliss, Blue Hills, Autumn!).<\/p>\n

I remember when I was a kid and first seeing the XP interface, I was astonished<\/em> by the 3D graphics. This was a massive leap from the flat and monotonous Windows 98 theme. I would spend hours just browsing through all the categories in Control Panel and absolutely fascinated with the shadows, the gloss and colour blending, the depths of the icons — from the printer, the headphone, the globe, the office gadgets, to the LCD screen. To me back then, this represented a surreal concept of modernity. This is what the US with its cutting edge and futuristic tech must have looked like!<\/p>\n

I also remember marvelling at the mystifying beauty of the default XP wallpapers — the Bliss, Autumn, Azul, and Blue Hills ones in particular. Having grown up in the crowded and ugly urban jungle of Hanoi, I had no idea how majestic\u00a0<\/em>nature could be. The moment I first saw the Bliss photo, I just stared at it for hours with my mouth dropped. I imagined myself frolicking, running, rolling, and playing on that field with none of the worries in the world. I said to myself that I would have to visit this particular spot one day!<\/p>\n

The Autumn and Blue Hills ones also captured my childhood obsession. With my non-existent English and Googling skills back then, I was left wondering where those places were. I kept thinking of the photographer, of the moment they took those photos. I thought to myself, the moment I stood on top of the blue hills with that exact same sight in front of my eyes would be the happiest day in my life!<\/p>\n

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Magnificent natural beauty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So yea, just a quick post to commemorate the old beauty that accompanied me through my coming of age years. Windows 10 is smooth, elegant, and reliable on a whole nother level, but XP will always have a special place in my memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just installed Windows XP successfully! Can’t believe how stupidly happy I am right now ? So we have this really old computer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[65,66,63,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}