[avaer]

It also required ridiculous metered long distance fees, forced you to lock up the family telephone line, and buying and installing a modem was much harder without the help of the internet.

I would advance the hypothesis that the prospect of the internet back then seemed much worse compared to dropping a few hundred to have Vive hardware shipped to your door and plugging it in. But the people who built the internet saw what it could be, not the garbage that it was.

And we're still in the beta stages; this stuff only gets better with time.

[Pica_soO]

Lets not forget ruining two perfectly fine rubber plunger, if you did it DIY.