Many reference this OS in the past tense, but there are few reasons not to still use it today. If you are not going online or are behind a NAT, if you only brow

Many reference this OS in the past tense, but there are few reasons not to still use it today. If you are not going online or are behind a NAT, if you only browse your own websites (and HN) it's a perfectly capable OS, as are many other amazing, capable OSes and other programs released in the past. Example: For any serious writing, I boot up my Windows Me virtual machine and open up Word 97, which, in my not so humble opinion, is still light years ahead of anything else available to me today in terms of speed and UI polish. Plus, I'm just used to it and feel comfortable with it. When I'm done writing an essay, I open up IE6 (or Netscape 4, or Opera 4) and paste it into my local blog instance. Or I can go straight to my public blog and post it there, since I don't care about doing it over plaintext HTTP. I believe that retro-computing is about to skyrocket, driven not just by nostalgia and comfort, but also all the design anti-patterns in today's software applications and Web services. (If you really care about HTTPS over the network, I'm sure there's a way to set up an SSL stripping proxy locally, but I haven't figured out how to do it yet. #lazyweb)