Of course . . . (Score 1)

Half the time when you looked for something obscure, nobody had posted anything at all about it. That's the problem . . . in the "good old days" it was easy to find what was there, and there were no pop-ups to interfere with our kickin' new 33.6kbps modem connections (actually, New Mexico State had a crappy 14.4 dial-up back then), but half the time it seemed like you couldn't find much useful info.

These days, there's a ton of information, but we have to wade through 6 tons of crap to find it, dodging pr0n pop-ups every step of the way -- on top of that, there's so much apocryphal (sp?) info out there that you have to double-check your sources.

Either way, things aren't really all that great, except it was new and exciting back then (MUDding from home, for example). However, you'll never be able to get me to go back to overnight downloads for a couple of megs of data, or trying to get Netscape 1.2 to play nice with Windows 3.11.