The Life and Death of the Early Internet

The CRT monitor took up half the desk, which itself had multiple compartments for various cumbrous peripherals. Yellowing ivory plastic, a glass screen so thick it bent the room at the edges, and a base so heavy that moving the family PC was a two-person job and a conversation about not wanting a lifetime of lower back pain. The keyboard and mouse had a dedicated drawer, and had the same light grey aesthetic. The Windows 98 mouse had a real, mechanical click; you could feel the switch through the plastic, and the ball was about the size and colour of a hard-boiled egg yolk - and you had to dismantle the mouse occasionally to clean the lint from the ball and rollers. The tower under the desk hummed, ticked, and sounded like a mini jet engine warming up.

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