1996…used until 2010

It’s super cool to use stuff like that. What did he use it for, word processing? I don’t think the average consumer of 2010 would’ve found it adequate though. That was the height of flash-filled websites and multimedia.

Definitely. The prices were much higher (accounting for inflation) though, and to make it worse with everything moving so fast it all was obsolete so much quicker.

Today you can ride a high end gaming PC 6-8 years. Imagine taking a Win98/EarlyXP machine to Windows 7. Nah.

But we lost the excitement with the longevity.