1. For one thing, it looked like this:
2. Or worse, it might've shared the kitchen or dining room — where everybody could see you.
3. Your parents had to log you in...
4. You learned how to play one-player games with two people out of sheer necessity.
5. You expressed yourself by choosing from half a dozen desktop themes.
6. You played games on 3½-inch floppy disks.
7. You couldn't even start a game without knowing some MS-DOS commands.
8. This was considered a pretty good controller:
9. Your mechanical mouse would not work without a mouse pad.
10. You actually used this thing:
11. Color printing was a luxury known to very few.
12. You couldn't look up current events or movies because you had last year's editions of Encarta and Cinemania.
13. Dial-up was as good as it got.
And it still took almost three minutes to download 1 MB.