Don't be ageist...LOL. I actually started several years before that, on a System/36 - with 8" floppies.
My first PC was an XT - with 'turbo' mode...and a 6" thermal printer...woohoo! LMAO
I remember loading DOS from 5.25" floppies every time I powered it on. 'HARD Drive?' Whatcha talkin' 'bout, Willis... "640K is enough for *anyone*!"
I remember when HDDs were referred to as Rochester Disks. And that the ones for the IBM PCs were 5.25" wide - same as the floppies. And a 'big' one held 30MB - why, it would take *years* to fill that up!
I had an account on CompuServe (see, I remember how it was spelled!). And a lot of the time, I was connecting at 3600 bps...plenty fast, for what amounted to a BBS!
I remember WordPerfect, with that beautiful white text on blue screen.
I remember when Windows 3.0 came out - and everyone had to rush out and get WP for Windows...but I liked the text interface better, so I stuck with it until Win31 came out - at that point, I had to stop being a Luddite and convert to WYSIWYG
Speaking of GUI...then I finally made the move to Excel from...Lotus 123!
I remember my first formula...lol...as if it were my firstborn
My first programming language was GW-BASIC. Then I moved on to COBOL. Finally, I was ready for C . Not C++ ...what did one need OOL for? I don't need pretty screens...I need to get WORK done! If it's good enough to launch the birds, or keep you breathing - it's good enough for
anything an end-user might need to use it for!
I still to this day prefer CLI when I use Linux. And I use vi as my editor. Cause every POSIX-based system has it.
"When did the world begin?"
"About four and a half billion years ago?"
"Nope... January 1, 1970"
Am I 'old enough' for ya now? ROFLMAO ;-)
(I wonder how many of our younger members will say "what the hell is he talking about?")