Born in the late 80s so I came of age with computing around 1996. I remember the first PC we had, intel 100MHz processor, 16MB RAM, 1GB hard drive, Windows 95.

Born in the late 80s so I came of age with computing around 1996. I remember the first PC we had, intel 100MHz processor, 16MB RAM, 1GB hard drive, Windows 95. Dad paid almost $2000 in 1995 money for it, and it was a huge deal. I have to assume my fondness for this GUI is tied in with my personal nostalgia and memory of computing at that time: How mysterious and fun it was, clicking through the menus, wondering what the difference between a briefcase and a folder was, and trying to browse the network neighborhood. Of course, with the lack of connectivity and how niche the Internet was then, it was all so much less commercial, so much more naive. Magical.