some beige computer content because why not

This dude's hair is so wild, it's trapping memories in it.

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It's how hair works!
Jotaro has nothing on this guy.

I learned to read on a beige computer while playing point and click educational games.

Now similar games made today require a subscription and a kernel level rootkit.

PS, you think in the future there will be a nostalgia for RGB LEDs flooding every space in a PC?

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I learn a lot of things scrolling (with the keyboard arrows) on one of those.
At the time it seems that you could have actually read all the internet.
Hardware was pricey and software crashed a lot (We were on windows everything), but each peace of software was small and straight forward.
To have anything working (local network, share the printer, having the hacked exe of warcraft to launch...) it was hours of trying, testing, randomly putting numbers in shitty designed config files, until it works.
Downloading a movie was a days long task. Blocking the phone. And if it fails you'll have to start all over again.
And we didn't know how, but it worked.
Now we can instantly access an immensely vast amount of things by just taping and subscribing and the browser remembers the numbers of our credit card.
Creating a new software can be done in one or two hours.
We just tap a button for the network to work.
There is an app for everything,. particularly what we have not asked for.
And everything on the internet tastes like shit.
The LED will come back. Or all tech thingies will become minitel 2.0
Maybe we will roll back to papers.
- Paper belongs on a roll. To be click clacked upon
TBF, those were the days of having to compile FOSS yourself (if you'd even heard of it) and proprietary connectors on everything. If we're talking pre-Y2K, Linux might not have existed yet, and they were trying to straight-up ban encryption. Basically, anything networked has gotten dumber, which ironically is labeled "smart", but the available hardware and software has actually gotten better.
PS, you think in the future there will be a nostalgia for RGB LEDs flooding every space in a PC?
Probably. I suspect it will be one of those things that's cyclically in and out of style, maybe with a twist each time it's back.

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Mail-order Linux CD?

No, but, at the time, the Internet access provider was a public company. They gave free lessons on "how to use the internet" and distributed Ubuntu CDs! (or maybe it was another distro, I don't remember)

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