You also have to remember the hardware we were working with back in the day.. Let's see.. when I was a hardcore wormer there was:
Napster
56k dialup
AOL 1.0
winamp
CRT monitors
So yeah, our keyboards were pretty crappy too. 3 key rule was in affect unless you had a cool "usb" keyboard.
Wow. This just brought back way too many memories. Time to listen to the beastie boys..