Also, most "great" software available in 2002 can still be accessed today. You wouldn't want to run it though. Which OS to start with? - Windows? Unpatched W

Also, most "great" software available in 2002 can still be accessed today. You wouldn't want to run it though. Which OS to start with? - Windows? Unpatched Windows XP gets compromised within minutes on the internet. Microsoft spent years trying to fix all sorts of trivial security holes. - Linux? Have fun with Mozilla 0.9 (pretty much the only browser choice) - MacOSX? Only just recently released, not quite featureful as subsequent releases, and required you to buy expensive Mac hardware. Why don't people run these systems on VMs on their browsers (it's quite feasible these days)? Because they aren't actually as good as the stuff we have today.