Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does.

[elshara@www.mediacy.net]

@sb @occult that's not bad honestly.

[burnitdown@beige.party]

@occult @Haste@mastodon.social they really liked to put rainbows on computers in the 80s, i guess to indicate that they could display more than two colours.

[occult@vox.ominous.net]

@burnitdown for sure. I mean, it was a choice and it represented color graphics, but it sure hits differently in 2026!

There are lots of examples in these old magazines like this. We lost this kind of original, experimental advertising. This was all in an otherwise stuffy UNIX magazine with articles about relational databases and reports from the front lines on C standardization committees.

Compared to what we see today, it's very refreshing.

[damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org]

@occult There's still time!

[ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org]

@occult
I could see this one becoming a real thing --- using your smart phone to project QR codes to your desktop computer's screen camera to control them or send files. Now if only we could project laser light from our smart phones.

[theraccoonbytes@theforkiverse.com]

@occult I mean is not wrong

[nekomimi@sakurajima.moe]

@occult I mean.... Hey it's kinda possible :3
Not sure how the user experience would be like using those lasers but at least if someone really wants to go for it and design that all by themselves then the image is technically correct :3

[gasrios@floss.social]

@occult "... or else it gets the hose again."

[leafless@fosstodon.org]

@occult
The hair.

[bjorndown@mastodon.social]

@occult she is truly "wired" whereas this woman is "tired":

[anctreat5358@mindly.social]

@occult Olivia Newton-John is re-enacting the Lawnmower Man sequence when he's trying to get out of the mainframe to the world?

[orange_lux@eldritch.cafe]

@occult @Haste just a little info missing in your alt : the shadow casted by the computer is that of a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk.

(picture CC-BY-SA 3.0 by Tarquin for Wikimedia Commons)

[mastokarl@mastodon.social]

@bromagosa @meeper @occult Exactly:
01/2028: singularity
02/2028: human writes prompt „create a hand-held device to control computers by colorful laser beams“
03/2028: humankind finally happy again.

[rebootdeluxe@infosec.exchange]

@occult Almost perfectly predicted.
But instead of fibre optic hats, we now wear aluminium hats.

[zenbeater@beige.party]

@occult

Almost there! Only a few hurdles left to get out of the way.

[occult@vox.ominous.net]

@bjorndown https://merveilles.town/@ritualdust/115516238498864678

[wandererbill@tabletop.social]

@zenbeater @occult yep, those pesky hover chairs just don't work right yet ...

[rozeboosje@masto.ai]

@bit101 @occult Those promises have proven to be bullshit ever since Synon/2 was first inflicted on me in 1986

[rozeboosje@masto.ai]

@occult that hairdo though

[saustrup@mstdn.dk]

@occult Bloody hell, I loved those #Wyse terminals. I'd love to get my hands on one now. Obviously we won't be needing keyboards in 2029, but those were nice too.