Yeah, feels the same. Back in the mid 90s I'm in a third world country where not many people own PCs but I was fortunately to play with a Pentium because my fat

Yeah, feels the same. Back in the mid 90s I'm in a third world country where not many people own PCs but I was fortunately to play with a Pentium because my father is a Math professor. I was probably among the first ones to use Windows 95 (it was a beta or some sort of pre-release version I believe, AND localized already). As you, I have the same feeling towards computer software stores, bookstores and other small shops in my local. I used to grab whatever software they offered (my parents forbade me to play any game) and tinkered with the development tools. Many of my classmates were very into gaming (back then consoles were pretty expensive for ordinary families) and some smarter kids got into game modification using PC Tools. I never managed to give myself a solid CS education and only entered the industry a few years ago, when I finally mustered the courage to teach myself C++. Anyway it was a great time for whoever touched by the fire. Now it's all gone. I might install DOSBOX on Rpi to give my kid a "DOS Machine" so that he could relive the history, but that's purely educational purpose.