Trying to explain to the kids that when I was younger there was no app store. They are horrified.
You had to go to a shop and pay £25 for a game called Myst and then you wandered around a huge world with weird music in the background
Them: and then what happened?
Me: nothing
Even now I have now idea what the point of Myst was. At all. You had to find a book but the book contained a story. Why not just buy a story.
I think I’ve been robbed 😱
However, 12 CD ROMs made beautiful Christmas tree decorations
I’ll just put these here next to my Encarta encyclopaedia CD ROMs and my Dad’s stack of rewritable CD ROMs
CD ROMs were a big deal
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