> I'm gonna go with an emphatic NO on this one: The point of the post is that its two steps forward, one step backwards. Not that everything used to be better

> I'm gonna go with an emphatic NO on this one: The point of the post is that its two steps forward, one step backwards. Not that everything used to be better back in the days. There's countless of examples why the tech world is better today. HTTPS alone makes it more difficult for a MITM attack, for example, but its not a panacea. > Buying software, especially computer games for Windows 95/98 was a complete gamble. Maybe one third just worked, one third required Direct X/Soundcard Driver/Graphic/Bios fiddling to get something running (though crashes were frequent), one third just outright never worked at all. That's why I worked with references, so I'd read a review in a magazine, or learn from a friend which hardware was stable. For example, I used a Plextor CDRW which used SCSI. This lead to massively less buffer underflows. > You spent eight hours a day in front of a giant, non-flatscreen cathode monitor that blasted your eyes with light and radiation, making you look properly stoned when you came home. Radiation from CRT monitors was harmful?