Back in the Windows Vista days I got pwned visiting a web site with an infected ad or script or something. It was a no-click exploit – just the act of visiting the page itself got me infected.

My Google smart speaker used to integrate with my shopping list app. The loss of that integration and other features makes it basically a glorified white noise machine now.

My earliest experiences of computer networking were due to wanting to host multiplayer gaming sessions with friends. Things did not “just work” back then.