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In the 1990s, I wasted so much money on computer programs that looked great in the store but weren't as appealing when you got them home.

I remember purchasing Microsoft Encarta thinking it would be great for my kids. They never touched it. Then there was the 100 years of National Geographic. What a nightmare that was. It came with about 30 CD-ROMs. You search for an article on Antarctica for instance and it tells you to insert Disc 23. Then if you wanted to see the photos, it told you to insert Disc 7. Then you would have read errors and have to keep re-inserting the disc so it could spin up correctly.

It ended up in a yard sale with most of my other software programs from that period. It's probably been about 20 years since I bought a piece of software that I had to install with a disc. The internet changed everything.