Operating systems in the ’90s and early 2000s were all over the place—some stable, some… not. Windows 95 started it off, but by 2000, you had Windows ME (released in Sept 2000), which tried to look slick but crashed constantly—people still joke about it for a reason. Meanwhile, Windows 2000, which came out earlier that same year, was built on NT and way more stable—mostly used in offices, but power users loved it. Then there was Linux, starting to pick up steam with distros like Red Hat and Slackware in the mid-to-late ’90s. It wasn’t plug-and-play, but if you knew what you were doing, it was powerful and free. And OS/2—IBM’s attempt to go head-to-head with Windows—actually had a strong run in the early ‘90s (Warp 3 in ‘94, Warp 4 in ‘96), but never caught on outside of niche users. If you were into tech back then, half the fun was just figuring out which OS wouldn’t break your system that week.