Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult this one's going to come true where it's 2 other personal devices needed to login to your work computer, and your employer needs you to buy and maintain those more expensive devices yourself
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult They got the hair colouring right at least.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult is that Sia?
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@bromagosa @meeper @occult OK I'm screenshotting that and heading to the hair salon right away.
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@256k I know man...
@256k@merveilles.town
So let's take it back! We need to pass on knowledge, encourage curiosity and a desire to tinker in the younger generations. We have to be the counterweight to big tech and their abstractions, walled gardens and locked down hardware. I got my daughter an old laptop to play with for her birthday in March. I'll show her how to disassemble it, tell her what the components are, and she will have to learn how to navigate the filesystem to use it properly. I'll answer questions but I won't hand-hold. I'm curious to see what she does with it.
CC: @256k@merveilles.town
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult I have the hair color nailed.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Apparently cathode ray tubes are future.
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@occult Apparently cathode ray tubes are future.
@starlily if only.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult I think I could pull off the jumpsuit but I'm not sure about the hair
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Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does. I’ve been finding a number of interesting artifacts throughout. This June 1984 ad by Cadmus Computer Systems listed a #USENET address: !wivax!cadmus.
This is a UUCP bang path, for the kids who don’t know. The ! separates relay hops, it’s a literal routing instruction. Get to the backbone, reach wivax, forward to cadmus.
No DNS.
Machines screamed at each other to swap data.
@occult Good times! And more sensible than BITNET.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult the Unix hairstyle is interesting
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wivax was a VAX at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, MA where Cadmus was based.
The TELEX number printed right next to it is also interesting. This represents telegraph infrastructure and the infant internet, side by side in a transitional moment.
@occult I remember seeing USENET posts from the Beijing Telegraph Agency around the late 1990s, and bta.net.cn is still registered to China Unicom (who appear to still use the Telegraph Hall in Beijing, although it no longer uses it for sending telegrams)
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@occult I remember seeing USENET posts from the Beijing Telegraph Agency around the late 1990s, and bta.net.cn is still registered to China Unicom (who appear to still use the Telegraph Hall in Beijing, although it no longer uses it for sending telegrams)
@vfrmedia It’s wild to have witnessed these areas connecting all over the world one by one pre-modern-infrastructure and protocols.
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From a 1991 SunExpert magazine article about “What’s to come” for network protocols. The article depicts a man traveling into the 2020’s, seemingly unaware of the chaos he’ll find.
He’s going to pass @prahou traveling back in time to 1991 to get some mint condition Sun workstations.
Hey #Fediverse! See you all at the 1985 California Computer Show.
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Hey #Fediverse! See you all at the 1985 California Computer Show.
Oh, this is good...
From UNIX World, 1985: "It finds the subtle bugs in my C programs" - Claude B. Finn.
40 years later, people are using Claude to find bugs in programs. What's old is new again.
#Anthropic #LLM #Claude #ClaudeCode #AI #Security #Programming #UNIX #C
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Oh, this is good...
From UNIX World, 1985: "It finds the subtle bugs in my C programs" - Claude B. Finn.
40 years later, people are using Claude to find bugs in programs. What's old is new again.
#Anthropic #LLM #Claude #ClaudeCode #AI #Security #Programming #UNIX #C
@occult English to C translator! That is Claude like in more way than one
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult this is how exactly I imagine vibe coding
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
Aged poorly.
CRTs—the reason why Kubrick's 2001 looks more modern today than Ridley Scott's Alien.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult They previewed DRAM prices and the return to the only terminals we'll be able to buy in three years.
