Alternative history! I began my career around the same time, and I remember applications taking minutes to start up, Word/Excel crashing and corrupting your fil

Alternative history! I began my career around the same time, and I remember applications taking minutes to start up, Word/Excel crashing and corrupting your file with regularity, and all kinds of horrible anti-patterns. Applications always are as slow as users can tolerate, which roughly end up being about the same over time, but tolerance is typically lower these days.