What technology purchase felt like a major upgrade in your life?

Lots of us used to purchase Linux via floppies or CDs attached to a giant user manual that might hopefully help you get it working. I know we were purchasing the physical media itself, but I think people should remember how in those days you mostly couldn't just easily download any distro and it would just work.

Wait it's suppose to be free? I still pay the 50$/m fee to guy who sold it to me.

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