There’s an old joke that if you ask people to pinpoint the golden age of Saturday Night Live, they’ll give you an answer that coincides with whenever they were in high school. It’s less true now in the era of on-demand streaming of the entire backlog, but for the longest time people would simply remember when SNL was fresh and new and exciting.

Funnily enough, I see the same thing playing out with computers, operating systems, the internet, and video games. People identify the peak as some time when they were younger and it was all new and exciting. Everything was downhill since then.

Talk to younger people and they’ll already tell you that Windows 10 was actually the GOAT and they won’t comprehend any fascination with Windows XP. That was the junky old OS they had to deal with on old computers once.