The computer room was the hub for homework, weird chat room conversations, and early online games — the first time my generation saw tech truly take root in our homes.

But 386 PCs—especially faster ones with a decent amount of RAM, like the one in the Pocket 386—also do a decent job with early-'90s graphical operating systems like Windows 3.1, and they'll ...

Like all early internet movies, Hackers and The Net now suffer from the fact that a lot of their action features a person seated at a computer, typing really hard.