Thowback to an Easier Time: EasyPeasy and Netbooks
One thing that people know about me is that I rarely throw out anything that has anything to do with technology. Old hard drives, DDR2 RAM, an old computer tower from the Windows 98 era…I keep it all. Partially because I don't want to make the e-waste situation worse, but also because you never know what will come in handy in the future. Most of it doesn’t work, and keeping it doesn’t really do much other than take up space and cause dust, but I can never quite bring myself to throw out old tech. Call it a quirk of mine. A few days ago, I decided to go through my old USBs and see what I could find on them. I have a small container full of them; well over twenty. Some simply refused to respond after plugging them in and one’s casing came apart as I made to do so. I found plenty of old photos (some of which embarrassed me greatly!) and some early writing works which, honestly, made me cringe something horrid. And then I came across a folder full of ISOs I’d previously downloaded on a...