Man, I bought a 10" atom Toshiba netbook in 2010 when I found out I was accepted to study abroad. It had 2gb memory and came with Windows XP (even though Vista was the latest).

I had to close everything on the OS just to watch a youtube video at <720p without stuttering. I ended up putting Debian on it which lead to me learning Linux and Ruby on Rails, and booting the dev server (rails server) would take minutes on a hello world.

When I got my first job out of uni, they gave me a Macbook Air, and it was so fast that I felt bad thinking about how much time I wasted waiting for things to happen on that netbook.

17 years later, in my late 30s, I don't think I could go back to such a small screen. But it was cool doing real work on something so small.