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How far we’ve come

If you’re like me and have been around for a while, you may have some recollections of what the computing, or at least the personal computer experience, was like back in the early days (circa the late 80s onward) when PCs were becoming more pervasive in the consumer space.

It was really undiscovered country, the entire industry was still feeling itself out and trying to figure out where it needed and wanted to go. Standards were not prevalent, at least inasmuch as we see them today, and everyone was trying to put their own stamp on what was clearly going to be a major part of the future.