100 things the kids may never know about.

19. The scream of a modem connecting
20. The buzz of a dot matrix printer
21. 5 and 3 inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage
22. Using Jumpers to set IRQs
23. DOS
24. Terminals accessing the mainframe
25. Screens being just green (or orange) on black
26. Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it
27. Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure theyâ?™ve all got a different ID
28. Counting in Kilobytes
29. Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade
30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that itâ?™ll load this time
31. Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load
32. Joysticks
33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive
34. Booting your computer off of a floppy disk
35. Recording a song in a studio

The Internet
36. NCSA Mosaic

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