Going back ten years ago...

The fastest computer for 3D graphics was an Onyx2 from Silicon Graphics... depending on the configuration, it was either as large as a minibar fridge, a large fridge or around a quarter of a tennis court.

Maya came out in 1998 and replaced PowerAnimator (did I get the name right?), running on Silicon Graphics hardware of course, which cost around $20,000.

Google was still headquartered in a garage, not in Silicon Graphics' place (SGI later lost lots of money and sold their headquarters to Google).

StarCraft came out! :attn:

Amusingly, at school, we used AltaVista... :p