I think more people should look at the pricing on the older stuff and set back and think how far things have come and what our computing dollar buys these days I know I am grateful.
No doubt. A friend of mine had a local, 2-phone line BBS - he had maybe 150 users or so. I remember when he bought a 1.3GB hard disk. It was full-height, 5.25 form factor. The thing must have weighed about 20 lbs. It was so big, he had to mount it in an external SCSI tower. He paid $1500 for it - that was in 1993 or so... just a few years later, I bought a 2GB 3.5" Seagate for $130 (maybe '96). Now I can pick up a 4GB MicroSD card that is no bigger than your pinkie finger nail for less than $10.
I remember salivating over the Commodore 1581 3.5" disk drive for the Commodore 64. At the time (maybe 1989) it was like $300 - for a whopping 800K or so of storage. But that was massive to the C=64. You may as well have had a hard disk attached to it. I could have GEOS and a software library on a single floppy.
I also remember buying a 28.8K modem for my first Internet connection in 1995 or so. I think I paid close to $200 for it.
Nowadays, most ISPs give you a modem free or charge a nominal fee for monthly rent on 5Mb+ of bandwidth.
The funny thing about those prices is those were in 1980's dollars! With inflation, those $999 machines are probably more like $2K now.