Now I just need a Winamp plugin that changes my status to tell everyone what song I'm currently listening to, and I'll feel like I'm back in the 90s. :)
- You had total customization over your computer, every app was skinnable including Windows or MacOS itself
- Linux was in a great spot, finally becoming usable as a desktop OS with a ton of fun toys and UI/UX experiments that got a lot of us into Linux before we knew about CLIs
- Products were sold per-unit instead of *aaS, so when you bought something, you knew you could use it as long as you needed to
- Social networks didn't exist, so if you wanted to interact with people, you had to learn something - which is what made geocities and later MySpace fun, since people had to learn a little HTML in order to update their friends on their current status, and could use that new skill to decorate their "home" page
I miss the 90s. I want to bring that back. That's why I got my kids PICO-8, at least it's a little taste of the good old days!
The only thing that was difficult for me, was installing my webcam drivers.
By 1997 I was able to get X running with xclock and xterm. Any other X application would freeze my computer due to sheer lack of CPU.
That, or rolling your own distro from scratch and spending ALL YOUR TIME maintaining your Linux install somthere was no time left to do the stuff you actually wanted to do.
Oh look, updating my windows manager means sound no longer works. I guess that’s three hours I need to invest to get my music player working again.
See you tomorrow.