The $2.98 Computer Library (1977)
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5gb of data (encoded as digital audio) really could be stored on a single vhs in the 70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnrQBfBCzY although computers didn't leverage it at the time. I guess i/o would be impossibly slow.
And games have substantially more effort put into them - there aren't many developed by teenagers after school in a few months, but by huge teams over many years. $50 for GTA is much better value than $2.98 for the games available in 77.
Although I think me from the past would be pretty excited and me from the present would be pretty envious to stay in the 90s, when computers were boring but made for helping users in their tasks instead of trying to influence them into what corporations want them to do.
Even as late as the early 2000's, a corporations software 'phoning home' without the users knowledge (and explicit consent) was a minor scandal and a real privacy concern. Now such behaviour is so commonplace, it is unremarkable.
It’s too bad because we have truly awesome tech but it’s just full of traps and we aren’t allowed to own our own devices anymore.