You can play with it in an emulator. There was no internet then so all your tools were local, not web-based, not cloud-based. (Given that, the idea of a subscription-based app was ludicrous.)

It's not that the OS itself was magical. (In fact there are a lot of things that I realize I miss when I go back—lack of sticky menus gets me every time). It was just: no passwords, everything local, no worrying about spam/ads/security, etc.

We just worried about backups and head crashes…