Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does.
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Boss: I need art for an article on #UNIX networking technologies for the next issue of UNIX WORLD.
Artist: come back tomorrow.
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Alt-Text correction: not a megaphone, the earpiece from an old telephone. -
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Alt-Text correction: not a megaphone, the earpiece from an old telephone.@RealGene Fixed
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
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It's 2029, RAM is now so expensive that we need to use Wyse terminals instead...@bobdvb I wish we still did.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult this was on point! 3 screens, wifi devices, and shiny hair colours.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult It happened earlier than they predicted.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Where is my invisible chair!
...no seriously it was here a minute ago.
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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 You mistyped "using Claude to write bugs into programs"
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult uncannily accurate
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Wow, they predicted the world wide web sucking the ID and credit card straight out of your hands!
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@occult Wow, they predicted the world wide web sucking the ID and credit card straight out of your hands!
@hellomiakoda Well, that’s one way to interpret it. I don’t see it through such a pessimistic lens.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult haircut wasn’t far off.
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Computing in the year 2038 as planned by UNIX and depicted by a movie from 1981@DenOfEarth isn’t that the guy who stormed Capitol
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Here’s an ad for cross-compilers and assemblers for UNIX environments.
My favorite detail here is this brag: “Over the past 3 years, we’ve built over 1MB of working code.” Cross-compilers, assemblers, simulators, and debuggers targeting six architectures across a dozen hosts. This code was dense.
The 80’s #UNIX wars were a wild time.
It’s also very fun to read the articles from the time and see what they were predicting for the future. “UNIX for the masses” was a popular topic.
@occult I didn’t realise the “Year of Linux on the Desktop” started all the way back in the 1980s.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult How did they get that photo of me on Fedi?
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@occult How did they get that photo of me on Fedi?
@lydiaconwell Right? I mean, it’s wild to me that they were like “we need a photo shoot for UNIX magazine, please help.”
Art Director: Sure, just get out of my way.
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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.
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@hellomiakoda Well, that’s one way to interpret it. I don’t see it through such a pessimistic lens.
@occult Well, I live in America. Those of us aware of reality tend to be pessimistic
