Comment by _ddzr

My key takeaways:

I spent most of my spare time either reading books or messing around on the internet - and for all you kids out there, this was the 1990s internet, when 'the internet' was mostly email, usenet and FTP, and you accessed it over a dial-up modem

One of my major criteria for buying things is whether they can do their job without a network connection I use computers for...well, I use them for reading stuff

Somewhere along the way, in the last OH GOD TWENTY YEARS, we - along with a bunch of vulture capitalists and wacky Valley libertarians and government spooks and whoever else - built this whole big crazy thing out of that 1990s Internet and...I don't like it any more

I actually don't use the internet the same way I used to. Now, I typically interact with it through a text-based version of the content collected through a commandline utility integrating Lynx.