Hmm. There's one very noticeable aspect about this challenge:
It clearly shows how much the world has changed. The whole act of "going
online" was a very special moment 25 years ago. I clearly remember
sitting there with my 2400 baud modem (which was already very slow back
then, by the way, but it was the only one available), browsing some
random web site and thinking to myself: "Wow, I'm retrieving data from
the other side of the globe right now." This really was a magical
moment.
That's completely gone. And you can't re-live that. We are *so* used to
all of that these days ...
That's the problem with these nostalgia trips in general. When I turn on
my old machine with OS/2 Warp 4 on it, it's a big wave of nostalgia for
a while -- and then it turns very weird. Same when playing really old
games that you haven't touched in decades. The world has moved on, a
lot. It's just not the same anymore and sometimes I think it's better to
not touch this old stuff anymore at all. It kind of ruins the memories
that you have of it.
