Ten Things You Only Remember If You Started Using Computers In The 90s

In the days before Facebook, before Twitter, even before Google, there was a brave band of 1990s computer users who risked being called a nerd by their friend who now can't eat their lunch without posting about it on social media.

Remember the AOLamo

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1. Your beige/grey PC was from Tiny computers.

2. You got on the internet via an AOL CD-ROM.

3. You installed Windows 95 via 20 floppy disks.

4. A floppy disc was not a filthy euphemism.

5. You used Encata to find out information.

6. You used excite or yahoo to search the web.

7. You had a talk21, blueyonder, or hotmail email address.

8. Your Geocities personal website was rife with flashing, rainbow coloured wordart and had a page entitled "All About Me".

9. Everyone in your office started incorporating slides in the weekly staff meeting, because they'd been on a Powerpoint course.

10. You were convinced you could become a graphic designer now that you'd mastered MS Publisher.