based on November sales at 182 Egghead stores in the United States and Canada.

IBM/PC

BUSINESS

1. WordPerfect 5.1, WordPerfect Corp.
2. Turbo C + +, Borland
3. One-Write Plus, Great American Software
4. Visual Basic, Microsoft
5. Grammatik IV, Reference Software
6. Money Matters, Great American Software
7. 1-2-3, Rel. 2.3, Lotus
8. Winfax Pro, Delrina Technologies
9. Type Align for Windows, Adobe Systems
10. Right Writer, Que Software

UTILITIES

1. MS-DOS 5.0 Microsoft
2. Windows 3.0, Microsoft
3. QEMM 386, Quarterdeck
4. After Dark for Windows, Berkely System Design
5. Norton Utilities, Symantec Corp.

HOME/PERSONAL

1. Quicken 5.0, Intuit
2. Expert Home Design, SoftSync
3. Expert Landscape, SoftSync
4. Quicken 4.0, Intuit
5. The New Print Shop, Broderbund

MACINTOSH

BUSINESS

1. Grammatik Mac 2.0, Reference Software
2. FileMaker Pro, Claris
3. MacWrite II, Claris
4. Excel 3.0, Microsoft
5. Works, Microsoft
6. Word 4.0, Microsoft
7. AccPac Bedford Simply Accounting, Computer Associates
8. RightWriter Mac, Que Software
9. Stuff-It Deluxe, Aladdin
10. Gallery Effects, Aldus

UTILITIES

1. More After Dark, Berkeley System Design
2. Norton Utilities for the Mac, Symantec Corp.
3. SUM 2.0, Symantec Corp.
4. Adobe Type Manager 2.0, Adobe Systems
5. Disk Doubler, Salient

HOME/PERSONAL

1. Quicken 3.0, Intuit
2. Kid Pix, Broderbund
3. Print Shop, Broderbund
4. Personal Press, Aldus
5. MyAdvancedMailList, MySoftware Company

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After Dark was, by far, the greatest computer program ever made.

After Dark... was that the Flying Toasters? I loved that one!

This was even before there were interweb tubes!

I had internets back then.

Granted, it was only email and bulletin boards, but it was internets.

Yeah, but that was back when the internets were trucks.

It did used to take a while for replies to emails to come - especially if the interroads were busy and the trucks got delayed.

If? When...

I remember being so happy when I purchased a used 1200 baud modem off some guy I met via a BBS in 1988! I sold my old 300 baud modem to a friend down the road.

I also remember my mom asking me why our phone bill was so high the next month and why I was calling all over the country. I had to explain to her about BBS's and such things...

$400 in 1988 was a lot of money for a phone bill!

Well it was a lot more:
There was uucp and ftp, I downloaded mostly lyrics text files and image files. I don't remember any porn back then. Oh and there was kermit. At work we had only X25 connection, but it was billed to some kind of grant, so we abused it using a SUN Sparc 10.
Oh and there was GOPHER!!!!! I installed my last gopher server in 97. I heard someone still maintains a server version called PyGopherd. Maybe I should give it a try and install it on one of my servers. Just for old times sake.

Dayumm..

Old skool Geek thread.

I was selling hardware in a wholesale outfit back then. By '94, it was 14.4 modems, 386's, .28 Dot Pitch monitors, and 150MB HDD's. All that stuff was cutting edge and pricey.

I actually miss "gopher", not to mention "yarn" and "pine". Heck, I even miss Dos and especially 4dos.

Porn? oh there were images and ascii porn :-)

I started off way way back when with BBSes, than added internet by using a freenet account.