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Published: 2017-08-17 21:23:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 961; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 0
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Looks can be deceiving.Windows 2000 ProfessionalΒ booting up in an abandoned office space on the upper floors of a small industrial space in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Β©James Hackland
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You booted a PC in an abandoned building? Like what? Did they not turn of the electricity? Did you find something interesting on that PC?
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Yes, the electricity was still on but it was my friend that turned on the computer. Β I don't remember going through it and to be honest I am not sure it even finished booting up.
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Wow. I would have been way too curious to not at least try going through a few directories.
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There is never enough time, I try to spend most of my time taking photos when at these places. Some of them would take weeks to go through everything thoroughly.
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Wow.
That was a while ago.
Best left behind, too.
A know a guy who recently retired after serving for years as the I.T. director at a federal prison, and he told me back then that the Dept. of Justice stopped giving security approvals for anything after Windows NT 4 Service Pack 6; there were so many security holes and known virus threats that the DOJ just gave up.
He would get a kick out of this one.
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Feel free to send him the link to my photo. Β This shot was taken like 7 years ago.
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I sent the image to my retired I.T. director-friend.
This is what he had to say:
"Probably still does what they need it to do...barely. Β LOL"
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so eerie all this stuff just got left behind so long ago. what a time capsule from the past.Β
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It was a really cool find.
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wait seriously, all these years, this computer was booting up?
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We turned it on.
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wow and it still works but i still bet it took a while to boot
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I don't think it ever finished booting.
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oh so you left it on after you left
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I think we turned it off.
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