I used to defend Netscape Navigator forever, then my PC crashed

Back in 97 I was that guy arguing on forums that Netscape was better than IE. One night at 2am in my dorm room at UNC Charlotte I was downloading a Metallica song from Napster and my whole system froze. Took me 3 hours to get it running again and I lost a 15 page paper I had due the next morning. After that I just started using IE and never looked back. Anyone else have a loyalty switch like that because of one bad crash?

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casey9437d ago

Totally feel you on that power surge story, that's brutal losing 80gigs of anything back then. Remember when we used to think hard drives were magical and could never fail? I had a similar moment with my old Zip drive, swore by it for backups until one day it just started grinding and ate a whole semester's worth of CAD drawings. Made me realize how fragile that brand loyalty really is when your data goes poof. After that I got super paranoid and started burning everything to CDs like three times over, which was its own kind of nightmare but at least I felt safer.

mason2097d ago

oh man i felt that one in my soul. i was the same way with Mozilla back in the day telling everyone Firefox was the only way to browse until i had a power surge fry my hard drive during a massive download spree. lost like 80gb of music and movies i'd been collecting for years, never fully recovered from that. sometimes one disaster is all it takes to make you drop a whole brand loyalty.