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237 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 14 Apr 25 01:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source
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dijit ◴[14 Apr 25 01:39 UTC] No.43677319[source]▶
Had a lot of fun reading that.

I'm a bit of a hoarder when it comes to technology, truth be told there's a certain rose tinted nostalgia that I get from thinking about early 00's technology.

It was still the era where UI's felt immediate and snappy- that anything related to actual computation or internet was jank and slow, but it had a whiff of a hopeful future about it. Every PC upgrade made things more snappy back then... Now I dread upgrades.

Hey ho.

It's endearing to know that one more bit of early 00's technology has been given a new lease on life. Would be cool to write some native software for it!

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anal_reactor ◴[14 Apr 25 11:01 UTC] No.43679998[source]▶
> It was still the era where UI's felt immediate and snappy

I'll never forget my first smartphone. Whenever somebody called, it took so long for the screen to turn on, that the other person would often hang up before I could answer. I'd just sit there with a ringing phone in my hand, waiting for its screen to turn on.

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1. hypercube33 ◴[14 Apr 25 11:41 UTC] No.43680226[source]▶
I'd really like to know what phone you had but my first attempt to buy one was a Windows based phone. I remember asking them to let me check it out so they grabbed a new one and turned it on...5 minutes later it was still booting.

I deeply miss my Palm m100 and it's snappy interface and ability to run all week on some AAA batteries.

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2. anal_reactor ◴[15 Apr 25 06:29 UTC] No.43689609[source]▶
It was Samsung Galaxy Mini 2. I think it was the worst phone that was yet vaguely usable.