Compaq Presario: You were my best friend.

I recently rescued my old computer from my parents' basement, the computer that saw me all through college. My Compaq Presario sported a pentium processor, a whopping 1.5 gig hard drive, and Windows 95. It's been sitting under old newspapers for at least 5 years, but I plugged it in and fired it up, and it still had the correct date and time. That's a 12-year-old battery!

So nostalgia is in full effect. I could write a blogload of posts about how funny things like "email" and "internet" were in 1997. I went through a bunch of the emails saved in my Eudora program and basically walked through my freshman year of college. I kept recommending to my friends that they try out this Instant Message thing, or "Have you heard of mp3s? They, like, turn your computer into a jukebox!"

In one email, I told my friend about the coolest game: Duke Nukem. Dude, that was fun. That was my first experience with a first-person shooter AND you could play your friends over a network (and as I recall, you could type messages to eachother).

We have come so far in 12 years.