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chuckadams ◴[] No.44006767[source]
I just can't get me enough of Raymond Chen and his wonderful walks down the dustier paths of memory lane. Feels like a more innocent time where I didn't feel like I was imminently going to be turned into paperclips.
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layer8 ◴[] No.44010708[source]
It’s probably partially an illusion, but while everything wasn’t fine back then, it seemed that there was at least a vision of a positive self-determined computing future that could be achieved and that we were roughly on-track on. Nowadays it feels more of a fight to keep things not getting worse, most of the time.
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1. bombcar ◴[] No.44010794[source]
Computers were so new for most people that they weren't really yet on the "critical path".

And when you got them working, they saved so much time that you had extra time laying around.