I Love the 90s

I had a library of 3.5 floppys, so not the giant actual floppy disks, but the tiny hard ones. They were magical. Everything about computing felt different in the 90s, because everything was more rare and special. I got my first computer in 95, and my dad made sure it was a beast. It had such a large hard drive, it could store TWO games, as well as an operating system! So, the floppies were part of the ritual. If I wanted to play a game not installed, I would delete one of the games, gather the multiple floppies that stored the other game, and go through the installation process. It built up anticipation for the game and gave you time to think. Thinking back, you had more time to think back then... all that being said, you had to treat the floppies with reverence. If you lost floppy 5 of 11, you're program was done.

Oh! And on the other side of things, being able to work at something at home, then bring it into school on a floppy was novel, but most of the time I would just print out whatever I was working on. Printing out stuff was the expected end goal back then.