Comment Comment by azinman2 It’s hard to imagine that everything is “free” now. For context:1. Megacorps weren’t so mega, so they didn’t provide all this functionality out of the box and generally WANTED 3rd party devs2. You didn’t have an infinite numbers of things online to grab/use3. Ad model certainly didn’t exist for software, and VC capital didn’t back the most arbitrary of software4. Most software was relatively expensive because audience size was far smaller than today5. People were excited at the random new things their computer could do6. Screen burn in was a real problem, a new monitor was very expensive, and you rarely bought a new computer parent azinman2 5 years ago
1. Megacorps weren’t so mega, so they didn’t provide all this functionality out of the box and generally WANTED 3rd party devs
2. You didn’t have an infinite numbers of things online to grab/use
3. Ad model certainly didn’t exist for software, and VC capital didn’t back the most arbitrary of software
4. Most software was relatively expensive because audience size was far smaller than today
5. People were excited at the random new things their computer could do
6. Screen burn in was a real problem, a new monitor was very expensive, and you rarely bought a new computer