

Baaack in my day we got a driver for our mouse on a single DD floppy…
Baaack in my day we got a driver for our mouse on a single DD floppy…
Well, that was a sentence often heard at a former employer… we employees often followed up with “… yeah, but the family name is Corleone”
Nah, '95 was best. BBS systems were in their final bloom, Usenet was better than everything that came afterwards (OK, the fediverse maaaay be a good successor) and there were still the COOL systems (Atari, Commodore…) around even after their respective companies had abandoned them.
You also could make some decent money if you had some rudimentary coding skills… I financed my first motorcycle (for which I hadn’t a driving license, mind you) by writing a (QBASIC? Visual Basic? I don’t remember) software for managing car parts for some local used car dealers.
They didn’t get most references in the 80s/90s either… this is the reason why nerds seemed weird…
I am using rsync triggered by cronjobs for this task now for… well… nearly forever.
And the guys who invented UNIX did so by using toggle switches and teletypes…
What about a trip into the smol-web? Perhaps a Gopher or Gemini Server? A IRC Bouncer? Or enter the fascinating world of telnet BBS systems!
Could we please stop calling this mediocre LARPers Nazis? My grandfather was a Nazi, party book, SA uniform and all… and he would be ashamed of the MAGAs et. al.