Another Day With My PC

Installing applications, including operating systems, was a very daunting task before optical disks came along. I remember juggling around 14 floppy disks when I installed a 60MB game 15 years ago. Not surprisingly, software came in big boxes at that time. You could just imagine the shelf space that those programs take up. Some even rival that of bookstores!

Of course, installation dilemmas are already a thing of the past, as in Windows 95 past. You could now load gigabytes of data by just popping in a single DVD installer. Many software companies are even dispensing the disk altogether by providing the files online, enabling users to just download it.

Things are getting a lot more complicated, especially in the IT industry. Fortunately, there are still a number of things that are not getting too esoteric for those who want an uncomplicated life, be it the virtual or the real one.