It wasn’t just that things got faster quickly. Hardware would rapidly become too old to run modern software. My first pc was a 386 33 mhz with 8 mb ram around 1

It wasn’t just that things got faster quickly. Hardware would rapidly become too old to run modern software. My first pc was a 386 33 mhz with 8 mb ram around 1993, and by 1998 software had passed it by to the point where I literally had no use for it except hand it down as a legacy gaming computer to my younger sister. I remember being forced to use 5 year old 386 computer lab pc’s at uni in 1997 and them being too slow to do our programming assignments on. Pc’s also cost way more back then. That 386 was bottom spec and it was still 1700 euro in 2022 money. Being into computers was an expensive hobby.