the first computer that was ever mine was a toshiba satellite 420 (hehe) running windows 95. no internet connection whatsoever. all the software i had access to was from shareware/warez/cover CDs. so many great programs, creative tools, games, hidden behind the little icons of .exe files. in contrast, my first experiences of the web were "iexplore pops up with a broken page". maybe as a result of this i still don't really value the web as a platform or feel like it's a 'real' medium