I'm a huge fan of emulators. What I enjoy most are the computer emulators (although I spend a fair amount of time with arcade and console ones too.) My first computer was a Commodore 64 and I loved it to death. I love that I can fire up my 64 anytime I want on pretty much any computer I want (including my
iPaq.) What's funny is that I don't just use them for gaming but actually enjoy trying to recreate what computing was like back then. Being a kid I mostly played it for games and learning a little basic programming. I never used it to do the myriad things I do with my computer now and quite arrogantly used to assume you coulnd't do all of the things I do now. Well ok you can't depending on the technology :-). But I was surprised to learn how long things like online banking and distance learning have been around.
How much fun it would have been to be an adult back in the late 70s/early 80s as the technology was allowing average folks to have computers in their homes. Yea I know some of you were there but I wasn't. Well I was but I was a wee lad more interested in the Smurfs than modems and hard drives ;-).