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Windows 95?!

posted 10 years ago by AriaOfTelengard
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Do they really still use Windows 95 in Norway? Not only that, but do they still use floppy drives? The police station was filled with Windows 95/98 boxes. I figure this is "real-life" as the movie isn't set in the past and the usage of Windows 95 wasn't meant as a joke.

Shouldn't the Norwegians at least give Linux a try? A Windows 95 box could easily run a "modern" Linux distro that can run modern applications. Windows 95 can't even run Office 2000. I am guessing a police station needs LibreOffice and a modern browser at a minimum. I think the most modern browser Windows 95 can run is Netscape. Yeah, that will get you far.

[–] rhezdekus 10 years ago

Or maybe it was meant as a joke. The police chief said they didn't have much money.The set designers would have to go out of their way to find older PCs with Win95 already installed, so it was intentional.

You were supposed to chuckle, not over analyze it!

[–] TheRapDude 10 years ago

It was meant as a joke, clearly. I'm Norwegian and I don't know a single person who still uses Windows 95.

Fear not the darkness, but welcome its embrace.

[–] Dunning-Kruger_Effector 10 years ago

Yes, we really use Win95 and floppies. We also really have Nazi zombies roaming the rural districts. And trolls. And polar bears. And we all hunt whales.

O freddled gruntbuggly Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gableblotchits On a lurgid bee

[–] Norse_Sage 10 years ago

That actually was a really nice touch, which I enjoyed greatly.

In a subtle visual way, it underlined how remote, understaffed and underfunded the local police department actually was. They are obviously a dumping ground for every screw up in the force, and whenever a real crime actually happens, someone more talented from a central part of Norway is sent to investigate.

Note that the local Sheriff wanted to solve this case by themselves, clearly a novel concept to them, to show those arrogant know-it-alls from the capital that they can do policework in rural Northern Norway too.

Tesla was robbed!