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I'm the same as you. In my case, the monitor I grew up with was a monochrome screen with a slight sepia hue - I have never been able to find a similar CRT on eB
by d3Xt3r 1y ago
I'm the same as you. In my case, the monitor I grew up with was a monochrome screen with a slight sepia hue - I have never been able to find a similar CRT on eBay or elsewhere.
What completes the experience is the sounds, lights and loading times. When I push the power button, I want to hear all the familiar clicks and whirls followed by the loud BIOS POST beep, immediately followed by the sound of the floppy drive coming to life. I do NOT want a flash media drive, I want a slow, mechanical HDD where things actually takes times to load, and you get to hear the familiar disk spinning and access sounds. And the lights, don't forget those little LEDs which accompanied the sounds, like a conductor conducting an orchestra.
And you know what I miss the most? It's the modem. I miss the dialup sounds. I miss being able to tell what speed I'd be getting connected at based on the sounds. I miss the BBSes and telnet servers of the era. And IRC. And the early web, free of bloated modern Javascript. And apps - real apps coded in ASM/C/C++ that prioritised efficiency and produced tiny binaries that ran without needing a million dependencies. And operating systems that fit an entire GUI desktop in 1.44MB...