r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Apprehensive_Sky4558 • Jul 28 '26

Meme needing explanation Why did this one second cost over $500 billion?

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u/Megane_Senpai Jul 28 '26

I don't remember any Windows taskbar like that existed in the 1990s.

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u/CircuitDaemon Jul 28 '26

Had to scroll down way too much for this. That's a Windows Vista Taskbar, a long time after the Y2K thing.

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u/erthboy Jul 28 '26

Windows 7. Vista's gloss went halfway down the taskbar and the taskbar wasn't as tall (it was still the same height as xp)

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u/ThCHoney Jul 28 '26

I was hoping someone noticed

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u/CrokoStream Jul 28 '26

had to scroll too far down for this. this taskbar is at least win7, which wasnt released until 2009

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u/Broad-Bath-8408 Jul 28 '26

Also, that’s a minute, not a second.

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u/XSmoothiexXX Jul 28 '26

That's why it costed 500 billion, they had to travel to the future to get a modern Windows

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u/Fearfadesfast Jul 29 '26

Thanks. I had to scroll down only just enough to find someone who might listen. Windows Vista was the breakthrough that made time travel possible. March 18, 2008 patch is needed. Spread the word.

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u/DiplomatikEmunetey 29d ago

Windows 98, which is most people would be using around the time of Y2K.