![]() Nostalgia for a long-running TV show or a long-discontinued candy bar can unite a generation like no laptop or app can. Indeed, tech nostalgia is weirder still, since it moves so fast and since in its early days it affected such a small percentage of the population. Those things that I have a nostalgia for, you may not, and we might only be out by a matter of a few years or even months. ![]() That’s why the whole nostalgia thing is weird: It’s so personal. ![]() By the time I was using AppleWorks I was doing work, and the sense of limitless opportunity and playfulness had been replaced with the all-too-familiar weight of responsibility and expectation. It’s quite easy to explain why, too: It’s because of when I was using it and what I was doing with it.ĬlarisWorks for me was all about fun and exploration, about working out what my Mac could do for me, and about discovering what I was interested in as I neared the end of my school days and started thinking about further education and career. And yet AppleWorks doesn’t stir in me the same visceral sense of excitement about the possibilities of what I could do with a Mac in anything like the same way that ClarisWorks does.
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