[ORioN63]

Yeah, I'm from '94 - I've never seen a world without Comic Sans. Or Wingdings for that matter.

That just triggered an old memory from very early me playing around with clip-art and transitions on PowerPoint.

[qbasic_forever]

The world before Comic Sans looked a lot like this to most people: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_...

(IBM VGA 9x16 font, used by MSDOS and pretty much every PC from the mid 80s to 90s)

[endgame]

I use this font in many places, and it gives people 2-3 years my junior nervous twitches. They associate it with events like "thing has gone wrong, time to reinstall windows".

[dTal]

I remember back in the early 2000s, having a QBASIC window open was enough to make most people say "you broke it". A blue screen covered in IBM VGA was firmly established as a bad sign by that point.

[chasil]

Actually, I thought that Hercules monochrome was a novel improvement on CGA.

I never saw the IBM monochrome that shipped with the original PC. I certainly saw a lot of CGA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

[lamontcg]

My childhood:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/FPGA-FDEDL.j...

[cratermoon]

And before that: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-44934.html