spoiler to younglings: the good old days of computing were not in fact good
it's just that other, non-computing related good things happened at the same time, and we conflate the one with the other due to the fungible nature of memory
@Sargoth that and
the past is often remembered as good, or better than it was
@Elizafox we used floppy disks
and we fell in love for the first time
aaah
youth :3
@Elizafox *ejects the CD too early*
blue screen
*accidentally unplugs something*
sorry, it won't be recognized until you go through the multi-minute restart process
there is no getting around the badness here
@Sargoth people have nostalgia for that time often though
forgetting how AWFUL it was
@Elizafox we were young and did not know how the tax code works!
@Sargoth "what do you mean multipart RAR archives or uuencode were annoying as shit???"
@Elizafox "why are you talking about installing drivers, don't you just plug in the thing and it just works?"
@Sargoth I remember its shit limitations even relative to the technology at the time
it was annoying.