Old computing just hit different
Old computing just hit different
They beeped they booped they clinked they clonked. It felt like real serious machinery doing serious things that modern computing doesn't really elicit in me.
Those old defrag softwares that would show sectors being reallocated I used to love watching as a kid. My dad would explain to me how it worked under the hood while I watched.
Brain terminally stuck in the era of winamp
You're viewing a single thread.
yeah.. there's a seriousness to the experience that the modern design doesn't strive for or at least I'm not seeing it, we see indie games and tv series trying to capture that aesthetic for nostalgia as well
I only really started using a computer at home around the time of Win95/98 but I remember seeing DOS PCs with Norton Commander in school labs before that, I guess a computer at home wasn't really even required for most things in the early 90s