yeah.. there's a seriousness to the experience that the modern design doesn't strive for or at least I'm not seeing it, we see indie games and tv series trying to capture that aesthetic for nostalgia as well
I only really started using a computer at home around the time of Win95/98 but I remember seeing DOS PCs with Norton Commander in school labs before that, I guess a computer at home wasn't really even required for most things in the early 90s