The Internet before enshittification was a great thing. But also I’m commenting this on a small pocket device that I would have killed for in the 90s.

Late 90s I was in Computer courses in College. Remember one guy bringing in stacks of floppy disks. Internet speeds at home were expensive but the school had good enough speeds to pirate games.

In my experience it was very common but also PC Gamer magazine would come with free demo games that kept me pretty happy.