These things seem like a long time ago
…they weren’t.
Writing a script for your SLIP dialler to automatically navigate your ISP’s dial-in menu.
Migrating the script to PPP when the ISP dropped SLIP support.
Using Windows 2 (or Windows/386). I don’t mean installed it for the sake of nostalgia. Actually used it.
Using OS/2 2.x. And Win-OS/2.
The transition from 68k to PowerPC Macs.
NCSA Mosaic. Forwarded to your X11 display from “the Internet machine”.
Installing Linux on a 386, and somehow having enough RAM for Emacs (or X11, but rarely both).
Using VT-100 terminals.
Tetris.
QEMM. DESQview. DOS extenders. DOOM. Wolfenstein 3D (clearly I don’t mean the iPhone OS port). Turbo Pascal. Hypercard. Micrographx Draw. Matrix Layout. Asymetrix Toolbook. PC-Tools. 4DOS. CP/M-86. GEM desktop/ViewMAX. DR-DOS. Ventura Publisher. CorelDRAW!. Aldus PageMaker. Adobe Type Manager. VT-100 terminals. Sad Mac. RAMdrives. GW-BASIC. 5¼” coverdisks. Octamed. Chuckie Egg. Starglider. Cool Spot. James Pond. Streets of Rage. Starwing (Star Fox). Lemmings. The demoscene. Boot sector viruses. Banyan VINES. INT 29h. TSRs. The Z88. Desk Accessories. CGA. Moraff’s World.
