Entries from Geeky Baldisms tagged with 'Nostalgia'
End of an Era: Computer Shopper Stops Their Print Edition
In 1993, it was scary business buying a home PC. A new system typically ran around two grand. And a typical first-time buyer had no clue what RAM was, how big a hard drive should be, and what dot pitch...
AOL in 1994
It was the summer of 1994. I had managed to install a 2400-baud modem in my PC running DOS 6.22 (no easy task in itself, ever heard of a DMA interrupt?) and was feeling my oats. I plugged the 3...
Mirsky's WOTW
It was like a glorious fireball streaking across the worldwide web's sky. It was so bright and beautiful that you knew it wouldn't live long. It was Mirsky's Worst of the Web. My web surfing experiences began in 1995. One...
Microsoft Didn't Always Suck
I'll never forget the day in 1993 that I excitedly unpacked my first PC, plugged everything in, and watched with keen delight as that first DOS prompt appeared. I was happily running MS-DOS 6.2. Somehow, that friendly CLI (on which...
BBS's
In many ways, I'm a computing kid. I grew up in the 60's and 70's, when computers were in the process of becoming a major part of human society. But you needed to be a mathematician in those days (at...
Usenet: It's Not Dead, But It's Coughing Up Blood
One of the earliest services set up on the newfangled internet way back when was Usenet. Here's a brief history from Wikipedia: Usenet (a contraction of user network) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a...
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