90s computing Memes

Ah, the golden age of dial-up internet, when downloading a single executable meant you could start it before dinner and hope it finished before retirement. 4.61 KB/sec transfer rate and 39 years remaining? That's not a download, that's a digital inheritance plan for your grandchildren. The best part was the download would inevitably fail at 98% because someone picked up the phone.

Remember installing software in the 90s? That "Next, Next, Next" ritual felt like a mystical journey guided by some all-powerful wizard who could either bless your PC with working software or curse it with toolbars and bloatware. Back then, clicking the wrong option meant summoning demons into your registry. And God help you if you accidentally declined the license agreement – that wizard would banish you back to the beginning faster than you could say "dial-up." Now I just type npm install and pray to the dependency gods instead.