Personally, those so called shitty days were some of my favorites. Some of it is nostalgia of course but I miss the sense of discovery.
The games were better too. I don't think this is just Nostalgia. Today, every major release seems to be an FPS with varying degrees of RPG-ness. Before, there seemed to be a lot more variety. The relative simplicity of the graphics had to be made up for elsewhere. I mean there were tons of truly crappy games but the good ones were really good.
I had a Commodore 64 from ~1987 to 1993. I still have it in a closet somewhere but 1993 was when I got my first "PC". This was a couple of years before the Internet really hit the public in a meaningful way. However, going online was still a blast. I stayed up late many nights calling local BBSes. They were a lot more fun. I think part of the appeal was that the people you were interacting with were usually local. Dealing with busy signals wasn't fun but as long as you had a list of several BBSes to cycle through they usually weren't too frustrating.
I can totally identify with all of what you said there and those are great points. I wasn't much into computing in the 80's but when the 90's hit I was obsessed. The computer lab I worked at would let us just have all the old gear and me and my pack of nerds would build computers that were completely functional and learned a lot about jumper settings and stuff like that which don't exist anymore.
We also overclocked CPUS but using lead pencils and would be able to make low-powered computers absolutely fly..well, until they started on fire.
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