Let's put it this way - I still remember the times when each application you run had to have its own video card driver for your video card, or it didn't start (old DOS ages). Then Win 3.1 came along and things got easier, then Win 95 - this was a holy shit moment at the time - built in TCP/IP stack - those where the days. If you got lucky with your modem drives you could get internet access after few hours of work on getting the modem to work. Then Linux came along and FreeBSD was open. It was nightmare to get any hardware to work as there was no drivers. Plug and Play was new shit.
You know, I would still go back to those days - internet was used mostly by university PhDs and programmers. Anything you read on the Internet was high quality, written by intelligent human beings... Not like today - written by people who can hold a phone and type at the same time :)
Let's put it this way - I still remember the times when each application you run had to have its own video card driver for your video card, or it didn't start (old DOS ages). Then Win 3.1 came along and things got easier, then Win 95 - this was a holy shit moment at the time - built in TCP/IP stack - those where the days. If you got lucky with your modem drives you could get internet access after few hours of work on getting the modem to work. Then Linux came along and FreeBSD was open. It was nightmare to get any hardware to work as there was no drivers. Plug and Play was new shit.
You know, I would still go back to those days - internet was used mostly by university PhDs and programmers. Anything you read on the Internet was high quality, written by intelligent human beings... Not like today - written by people who can hold a phone and type at the same time :)