I had a 286 which was one of the first IBM Clones you could buy directly from Silicon Valley in California. Since I lived in the SF Bay area in 1987 one day I went to Silicon Valley and bought a clone 286 AT. If you don't know what a clone meant then it is a computer that is based upon IBM designs but built usually in China or Taiwan or Japan or somewhere else (the parts) and then it was assembled in Silicon Valley and I bought my first AT 286 Computer for $2500 including a color Epson Printer. So, this was my first serious computer that could actually do a lot of stuff and it was pre-loaded with DOS from Microsoft sometimes also called: MS-DOS which means Microsoft Disc Operating System. So, you had at that time likely floppy discs which fairly quickly moved to CD's and DVD's containing various kinds of software you could buy then. But, I think it was pretty early as far as actually buying stuff online. I still have a bank account that I started for buying things online because it wasn't very safe then at first until things like Pay Pal started by people like Elon Musk which is how he got his financial start in life.
What I liked the most about MS-DOS is it gave a user (you and I) much more power and more choices of what we could and couldn't do on a computer than more recent operating systems. For example, I could view most easily any HTML page of whatever page I was looking at worldwide so I could easily understand what was being programmed in HTML because of my background in college learning Fortran and COBOL and then later teaching myself the BASIC language. And with MS DOS one could easily write programs in Basic language using MS-DOS or I believe you still could do this with Windows 95 too.
But, over time, companies took more and more power away from the users and we lost an incredible amount of privacy worldwide. And this only gets worse and worse worldwide every single day.
I call it "The Disempowerment of the USER Worldwide" Which started in the early 1980s and has gotten worse and worse every since. Instead of the word USER I think a better word is "VICTIM" at this point around the world. So, this disempowerment of USERS is definitely worldwide and continues to get worse every single day.
Why do I still go online with what I know? If you understand the real problems you can somewhat circumvent them if you know what to do. Knowledge itself is sort of an addiction used in basic survival worldwide. So, you need the knowledge you can find to survive worldwide but you also need to protect yourself from all the pitfalls in order to survive what you are doing. This is why only adults who understand this are safe at all online.
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