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
2. No one ever has infinite time and I totally understand that there are devs that can currently just grab and use if they're employed.
3. I dunno and defer
4. That makes sense on a first glance but the efficiency of profit will prolly never be like that again?
5. new people are born every day
6. First time I ever experienced screen burn was this month.
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