THE INTERNET CHANGED everything. And people who grew up after its arrival will never know what it was like before.

In particular, they will never understand these things:

1. The gravity of this decision

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2. “Disk 7 complete. Insert Disk 8 and click OK”

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3. Instead of YouTube videos, having this

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4. Or if you were lucky, this

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5. And it was a big deal when your copy of Windows had this

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6. Every computer taking a full two minutes to boot up

With accompanying orchestra of sounds

7. This being the source of all human knowledge

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8. Installing music from your CD collection, and playing it on something like this

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9. Choosing the right screensaver to reflect your personality

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“Do you think Flying Toasters looks too wacky?”

10. This being how people killed time at work, instead of going on Facebook

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11. This being the height of strategy gaming

Er, World of Warcraft what?

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12. And this guy the equivalent of spam

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13. This living hell

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14. And the importance of this message.

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