How were home PCs used in 1996?

I started with a Mac TV in '93 which was set up for internet access. 33Mhz, 8MB Ram, 160MB HD and 2x CD-ROM which sounds hillarious until you compare it to the likes of the C64. This was the first full color "modern" mouse driven computer anyone in my family had ever seen. I put Photoshop 3 on it from diskettes and used for for pretty much everything I use a computer for today except online video and audio of course. The internet was BBS based until Netscape (Mosaic) hit the scene in '94 and quickly changed everything. I remember the early adoption of a 28.8k modem set me back $300. Ahh the good 'ol days... nostalgia aside can't say I really miss them when it comes to computers.
 
A year or two ago I browsed old micro computer magazines from years 86-90 at my mom's house, ans they were a bit hilarious read. Mouse was written like it were just some exotic curiosity. Hard drives of size 200 mb were called enormous. Then they had talk about some now obsolete things like CP/M and MSX.

The magazines also had program codes, which people wrote by themselves on computers, (and which on my own experience didn't work). Readers sent them, and there was one written by Linux Torvalds for Sinclair or Spectravideo or something starting with S.
 
I had already had my very first own computer for two years by then, and one of my favorite things to do was godmode through Doom while the computer played my favorite LeeAnn Rimes CD (I was 12, stfu. :lol: ) In fact, the absolute oldest file on my computer right now is a simearth save file (.pla) from 1994.

Sadly, my parents refused to let me use the internet *at all* on my own computer until 2004.... :( Probably 'cuz they kept busting me for visiting porn sites on other people's computers. :mischief:
 
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