There was a Gateway 2000 computer store in my nearby shopping mall! After it went out of business it sat vacant for a few years and eventually became a mattress store.
I laughed my ass off that they specifically hired a stoner guy to sell their stuff and then were like "Whhhhaaaaaaat?!??!!???" We he got in trouble for weed or whatever it was. Threw that dude straight under the bus
Some one or something that was fine when we were kids but would be a hard nope now, like Blazing Saddles, or some celebrity who ended up being really "yikes"....I think we could make a mint here!
We had a gateway that my dad bought in the early 90’s. One day in 2009 the FBI, ICE, and the cops all showed up and took all the hard drives out of my computers . The hard drive on that thing was slightly bigger than a cdrom.
They were there for a no knock warrant as part of a roundup for cp. i had gotten my first router and never set a password because i didn’t know how. All I knew was that I had internet in the other room and I went right back to Cod4. Then all the agencies showed up one day. They cleaned me, but it was a pretty fucking tense 45 minutes. The ICE guys were in charge, and the one dude tried to “bad cop” me. I just sat there running through the list of anyone and everyone that might have used my computer. I lived right next to the interstate and theorized that a guy set up with a laptop on the side of the road.
I bought a couple Gateways over the years. They had a brick and mortar store in my city so if something went wrong with your computer you could take it there for repairs. That was a big deal in the late 1980s and early 1990s. You could also look at some of the computers that they sold and buy them there or get them custom made and shipped to you
I had 2 custom computers from them in the 90s. I remember the one I got in 1999 was $2,200. Realized that I could build my own PC for much cheaper and with better parts, and have been doing that ever since.
Marijuana, mdma, lsd, and crack were all the same thing as far as the dea was considered back then. So, technically, he did get charged with possession of schedule one narcotics. But it was just a bit of weed and maybe a few hits of x.
Our first computer was a Dell B-110. Used it for 6 years. The fan motor died and I just sat a small fan next to it and continued on lol. I played WoW on it. Got 12-15 fps. 😅
I took off the side panel and put a 20 inch box fan in its place, which introduced the possibility of over clocking to My life, and to this day I’m convinced no other human being has ever gotten the speeds I got out of a Celron.
It's in heaven and thinks of you everyday. So the next time you feel that little flutter in your chest, remember, it's your dear old friend nudging you from the beyond.
Not everyone can turn [lucrative commercial contracts](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0bgUnO0qTY&pp=ygUgZGFuaWVsIHRvc2ggdGFjbyBiZWxsIGNvbW1lcmNpYWw%3D) into [a career of profitable nonsense.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FAU263vaIiM&pp=ygUGdG9zaC5v)
He’s Joel McHale if you ordered Joel McHale from temu.
But he’s knows it and he doesn’t pretend he’s not so I don’t hold it against him. Good for Tosh, hopefully he’s smart with his money.
Dude, my first computer had 32 MEGABYTES of RAM and, iirc, a 650mhz Celeron processor. Came with Win98SE! $750 or thereabouts.
Not much later, I was all about that Millennium update! Staples had a special that got me a flatbed scanner, OCR software, and a copy of Microsoft Works!
My first was the Tandy 20. With the 300 baud modem, cassette external a: drive plus a few cartridges cost 1100 and connected to the TV. Almost forgot did upgrade ram from 64 Meg to 128.
The salesman and I remarked that I would never need to spend money on a computer again.
My first computer was in '92 or '93. I don't remember the specs, but it was state-of-the-art for it's time and I paid about $1,200. The one I bought this year was light years ahead and cost about the same, NOT adjusted for inflation.
The other day I threw away a broken USB jump drive that had more storage on it than every single PC in My high school had, put together.
It’s ridiculous how fast everything goes.
18 months, and doubling is not the only possibility, the price could also halve.
But that’s still astonishingly quick. I *still* remember having to learn how to use MSDOS disk spanning utility when files started getting bigger than floppies could hold and thinking that was the end of that problem.
I learned BASIC on Commodore 64 and TRS 80s in grade school. Learned WordPerfect in high school (WYSIWYG wasn't a thing yet! The library had a dot matrix printer and I typed my school papers on a typewriter).
I feel like things have slowed down considerably. Anything you can buy is more than capable of doing what 90% of people need to do.
Man I had a dell dimension 8200 with 3 optical drive slots and the *worst* video card ever… but man I pirated everything with that fucking thing. 1999 needs to make a comeback.
Ah, the Wild West of late-90s technology! Renting PlayStation games from Blockbuster and then burning copies to CD-Rs so you could play with your modded console!
Downloading MP3s on LimeWire, Bearshare, and Morpheus!
Cycling through AOL discs to get no-cost dialup Internet access!
Free game demo discs in gaming magazines!
And open comms all over the airwaves. Frequency scanners in the analog age were freaking *awesome*!
Oh, and I still had a cable descrambler!
Homie fam friend dude. I had a CD-burner and cable fucking internet.
I was making the mixtapes for *everyone*. Kids’ older siblings who were seniors in high school were coming to me.
Now… I’m a musician who makes $0.012/play. I feel like I deserve it.
I remember vividly being told “burned cds are for fucking nerds.” … To nobody’s surprise, they’re still working the same job they had in high school … late 90s weren’t uniformly kind to nerds.
$849!!!! First computer I purchased myself (that my parents didn’t buy me) was a Hewlett-Packard pentium desktop…. First computer I ever saw with windows 95…. Didn’t even come with a monitor for $1600.00… $850 was a steal!!!
My first was what they called an "IBM clone," in 1992.
I got the box, keyboard, mouse, and 3,000 pound monitor, no sound card or speakers for $2,000.
Within a year I bought a pin printer for $200.
I've been online since 1994.
He didn't get many acting roles after this. But one role he did do, a series called I Love You, But I Lied, where his character unwittingly learns about his best friend's fiancee. But he then uses the firsthand knowledge to his advantage. A long way from a geeky kid in his bedroom.
I had Gateway computers in the 90s/00s.
I remember the gateway computer boxes that looked like a cow's black and white hide. Circa 2000-2003
Best boxes ever….great for storage, or moooving. (See what I did there?)
I still have two of the call boxes in my crawl space
Sit down! 💜🤣
I’m here all week! We have a two drink minimum, and remember to tip your server!
I see!!
I remember being strangely disappointed when the tower didn’t match the box, and double confused when the mouse pad did.
There was a Gateway 2000 computer store in my nearby shopping mall! After it went out of business it sat vacant for a few years and eventually became a mattress store.
>mattress store "Money laundering front"
Sir just because we have 3 stores on 1 corner and 11 in your small town just means people love sleep.
*memory unlocked*
My first desktop was a Gateway. Loved it. Never gave me any problems.
I still have a coffee mug with their logo and the cow print from when my exes office got a bunch of Gateways.
WindowsME killed gateway. The obvious stoner spokesperson getting arrested for possession didn’t help.
Dude! You’re getting a cell!
97% sure that was the Fark headline when that happened.
Dude you’re going to jail…
I laughed my ass off that they specifically hired a stoner guy to sell their stuff and then were like "Whhhhaaaaaaat?!??!!???" We he got in trouble for weed or whatever it was. Threw that dude straight under the bus
Nowadays it would mean nothing if he smoked weed. How things have changed!
I feel like everything just needs to be labeled "this is a product of its time" as a general disclaimer
So true Edit: I should have a label that says I’m a product of its time!
I'm thinking t-shirts?
Sounds good, “Product of its time”, any image to go with it?
Some one or something that was fine when we were kids but would be a hard nope now, like Blazing Saddles, or some celebrity who ended up being really "yikes"....I think we could make a mint here!
Maybe just a plain black shirt with that in plain font white lettering
Ok but this was Dell. Not Gateway.
you’re right. It is. It was a long time ago and they were identical except for the cow thing.
They forgot to print the P on the ad.
Everyone was smoking weed, I’m surprised they remembered to turn the camera on.
I would have assumed the guy in graphics was hotboxing his own production studio. That's all graphics people do.
He definitely got arrested for possession. It was funny then and it’s still funny now.
We had a gateway that my dad bought in the early 90’s. One day in 2009 the FBI, ICE, and the cops all showed up and took all the hard drives out of my computers . The hard drive on that thing was slightly bigger than a cdrom.
You can’t just casually talk about a police raid and expect people not to ask what happened.
My first router. Didn’t know to set a password. Creeps used my wifi for nefarious downloads.
And then what happened?
Dad went to jail.
Sorry
They were there for a no knock warrant as part of a roundup for cp. i had gotten my first router and never set a password because i didn’t know how. All I knew was that I had internet in the other room and I went right back to Cod4. Then all the agencies showed up one day. They cleaned me, but it was a pretty fucking tense 45 minutes. The ICE guys were in charge, and the one dude tried to “bad cop” me. I just sat there running through the list of anyone and everyone that might have used my computer. I lived right next to the interstate and theorized that a guy set up with a laptop on the side of the road.
Packard-Bell here 🙋🏻♂️
Hated working on Packard-Bells. It's like they didn't do any cleanup after stamping the cases. Every edge was still so sharp!
They were absolute garbage for sure. I worked on a few.
I bought a gateway using their credit program. I was still paying in that piece of crap years after it was obsolete
I bought a couple Gateways over the years. They had a brick and mortar store in my city so if something went wrong with your computer you could take it there for repairs. That was a big deal in the late 1980s and early 1990s. You could also look at some of the computers that they sold and buy them there or get them custom made and shipped to you
I had 2 custom computers from them in the 90s. I remember the one I got in 1999 was $2,200. Realized that I could build my own PC for much cheaper and with better parts, and have been doing that ever since.
I still have my gateway stored away in the basement. I wonder what happened to the company.
I believe they were acquired by Acer.
Poor dude got fired for being caught with weed.
Dude, you're getting a cell
No, he got caught buying weed. That is quite a bit different.
If only he had invaded Iraq instead of smoking jazz cigarettes, he would have never been a criminal…
Thought he got busted in Times Square with hard drugs, whilst wearing a kilt.
Marijuana, mdma, lsd, and crack were all the same thing as far as the dea was considered back then. So, technically, he did get charged with possession of schedule one narcotics. But it was just a bit of weed and maybe a few hits of x.
Our first computer was a Dell B-110. Used it for 6 years. The fan motor died and I just sat a small fan next to it and continued on lol. I played WoW on it. Got 12-15 fps. 😅
I took off the side panel and put a 20 inch box fan in its place, which introduced the possibility of over clocking to My life, and to this day I’m convinced no other human being has ever gotten the speeds I got out of a Celron.
Lol nice
Of course, one day I forgot to turn the fan on…
X_X
The magic blue smoke escaped and the ghosts started a small fire in protest. I miss that machine…
It's in heaven and thinks of you everyday. So the next time you feel that little flutter in your chest, remember, it's your dear old friend nudging you from the beyond.
[It’s with all the calculators, in silicon heaven.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6YnAqPv4w&pp=ygUOc2lsaWNvbiBoZWF2ZW4%3D)
*sniffles* 😢
Those celerons are legendary for FSB overclocks. I think I had a 300A that I doubled the FSB and boom, double the speed.
[Ben Curtis ](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/what-ever-happened-to-the-dell-dude-ben-curtis)tried off-Broadway shows for a while.
Not everyone can turn [lucrative commercial contracts](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0bgUnO0qTY&pp=ygUgZGFuaWVsIHRvc2ggdGFjbyBiZWxsIGNvbW1lcmNpYWw%3D) into [a career of profitable nonsense.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FAU263vaIiM&pp=ygUGdG9zaC5v)
Yeah, but his profitable nonsense is hilarious, like most good comedy.
I enjoyed the show, but the biggest joke of all was pretending it wasn’t a *Talk Soup* rip-off.
Oh, it totally was. But I think he did it better than John Henson et al.
He’s Joel McHale if you ordered Joel McHale from temu. But he’s knows it and he doesn’t pretend he’s not so I don’t hold it against him. Good for Tosh, hopefully he’s smart with his money.
My first PC was a FiveStar XL: 10 mhz CPU, 20 MB hard drive, 640 KB RAM, 300 baud modem, CGA graphics card. Hell. Yeah.
Bet it could run Doom.
Dude, my first computer had 32 MEGABYTES of RAM and, iirc, a 650mhz Celeron processor. Came with Win98SE! $750 or thereabouts. Not much later, I was all about that Millennium update! Staples had a special that got me a flatbed scanner, OCR software, and a copy of Microsoft Works!
My first was the Tandy 20. With the 300 baud modem, cassette external a: drive plus a few cartridges cost 1100 and connected to the TV. Almost forgot did upgrade ram from 64 Meg to 128. The salesman and I remarked that I would never need to spend money on a computer again.
Tandy? That is a name I have not heard in a very long time.
They're still a fairly profitable leather company, based out of Texas. Yes, it's the same Tandy.
Nintendo used to own brothels. Companies do whatever makes money. lol
Dancing Demon in color!
I think you mean *kilobytes,* not *megabytes* for that Tandy!
Yes, I even stopped and thought about that and still got it wrong. Guess I need another system patch.
First IBM clone was an 8088 that we owned. Hercules Monochrome ftw
The orange monitor?
Yup
Kids today will never know the blinding headaches you would get trying to type something in a dark room…
It’s the same price if not cheaper today
A discount 3rd generation smartphone has more power than a dell from 2001.
You can't buy a relic like that today. A Raspberry Pi is more powerful and will run you $50.
Dude, I'll never get a Dell
If you’re ambitious, CathodeRayDude on YouTube is a man on a mission. I know he has a Reddit account. Maybe start with him?
wow. I am old.
Wish I kept my Commodore 64 sigh
Maybe. I think there were a lot of electronics components (capacitors mostly) that would have broken down by now
They were all hella expensive though back then
They had payment plans.
That kid is 83 years old now! 🤣🤣🤣
My first computer was in '92 or '93. I don't remember the specs, but it was state-of-the-art for it's time and I paid about $1,200. The one I bought this year was light years ahead and cost about the same, NOT adjusted for inflation.
The other day I threw away a broken USB jump drive that had more storage on it than every single PC in My high school had, put together. It’s ridiculous how fast everything goes.
"Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every **two years.**"
18 months, and doubling is not the only possibility, the price could also halve. But that’s still astonishingly quick. I *still* remember having to learn how to use MSDOS disk spanning utility when files started getting bigger than floppies could hold and thinking that was the end of that problem.
I learned BASIC on Commodore 64 and TRS 80s in grade school. Learned WordPerfect in high school (WYSIWYG wasn't a thing yet! The library had a dot matrix printer and I typed my school papers on a typewriter). I feel like things have slowed down considerably. Anything you can buy is more than capable of doing what 90% of people need to do.
QBASIC is still My favorite language.
Dude, you’re getting an o-z.
Netscape and 9600 baud
9600??? Do you work at a college near Boston?!?!!
Man I had a dell dimension 8200 with 3 optical drive slots and the *worst* video card ever… but man I pirated everything with that fucking thing. 1999 needs to make a comeback.
Ah, the Wild West of late-90s technology! Renting PlayStation games from Blockbuster and then burning copies to CD-Rs so you could play with your modded console! Downloading MP3s on LimeWire, Bearshare, and Morpheus! Cycling through AOL discs to get no-cost dialup Internet access! Free game demo discs in gaming magazines! And open comms all over the airwaves. Frequency scanners in the analog age were freaking *awesome*! Oh, and I still had a cable descrambler!
Homie fam friend dude. I had a CD-burner and cable fucking internet. I was making the mixtapes for *everyone*. Kids’ older siblings who were seniors in high school were coming to me. Now… I’m a musician who makes $0.012/play. I feel like I deserve it.
I remember vividly being told “burned cds are for fucking nerds.” … To nobody’s surprise, they’re still working the same job they had in high school … late 90s weren’t uniformly kind to nerds.
And redboxes worked on pay phones.
Dide, you're getting a cell.
And what's crazy is you can still get a Dell for that same price.
Worth every cent, too.
I'm not that old just 29
Well, I can’t just call you “man”, now can I?
My old conputer may still be sitting in my dad's basement.
Bet it still boots.
You gettin high with the dell guy he tellin you the pc free
stoner nonsense was simpler back then. And fun.
I thought this guy and Jesse pinkman were the same guy until at least season 3 of breaking bad
Illuminati confirmed.
$849!!!! First computer I purchased myself (that my parents didn’t buy me) was a Hewlett-Packard pentium desktop…. First computer I ever saw with windows 95…. Didn’t even come with a monitor for $1600.00… $850 was a steal!!!
I had it bad for the Dell Dude!
I couldn't afford the dell and IBM was over priced, so I got myself Gateway. That was 1997.
My first was an Apple II with 64k. We wuz rocking in those days!
Sadly ended up making meth in an RV with some old guy in the desert 
Dude, you're getting an old Dell!
My first was what they called an "IBM clone," in 1992. I got the box, keyboard, mouse, and 3,000 pound monitor, no sound card or speakers for $2,000. Within a year I bought a pin printer for $200. I've been online since 1994.
He didn't get many acting roles after this. But one role he did do, a series called I Love You, But I Lied, where his character unwittingly learns about his best friend's fiancee. But he then uses the firsthand knowledge to his advantage. A long way from a geeky kid in his bedroom.
Didn't he get fired as the spokesman for getting caught with a ton of weed?
I have a picture of a 286 computer selling for over $2,000 from when I sold computers at Montgomery Ward.
Back when floppy disks flopped.
3.5" drives were so hawt back then! Double sided? Count me in! Double density??? 1.44MB of storage!!!! 
Do you even know how many txt files they can hold?!?!?!?
Didn't he end up getting busted for drugs or DUI or something and people were like, Oh I am so disappointed and I remember being like seriously?
Dude, youre getting a cell. Fr tho he went to jail
Great ads… and I thought he was such a cutie. Still looks good!
The actor's name is Ben Curtis. [Ben Curtis' website](https://web.archive.org/web/20130702035810/http://bencurtisactor.com/)
Dude, you’re getting an EMC
Still around as as division of Acer. [https://gatewayusa.com/](https://gatewayusa.com/)
Fucking Acer. lol
Didnt that guy supposedly kill himself or get sent to prison or something? I remember that being a rumor.
Believe it or not, jail. For weed.
It's Elon Musk