| Same. Getting that first dot matrix printer was pretty magical. Especially since we could design our own dinosaurs by mixing heads, bodies, legs, and tails of a wide variety of dinosaurs, name them something ridiculous, and print them out. So many dinosaur printouts. [1] https://archive.org/details/msdos_Designasaurus_1988 We had to upgrade the 386 to a 486 and install a math coprocessor to play DOOM. Then later, it was all about SkiFree and Jezzball. My favorite book was Windows 95 Secrets. My small town school had a pretty solid computer class where we learned typing, then hypercard, and then digital video editing. The teacher convinced me somehow to make a movie about wheeling around a computer cart around the grounds to a soundtrack full of 'The Drifters' type music Way later in life I found the guy who ran the one big server that brought internet to most of the community. He said the continuous bandwidth upgrade needs were driven almost entirely by porn traffic. |
I was like this....is a game changer.