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.
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.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Fuck that, I just want the wig!
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult can confirm this is how I use technology already, get on my level 2026
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult nailed it. uncanny.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult She's holding phones & is scanning QR codes. They nailed it.
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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 Every new language, tool, platform, library, and framework in the last 40 years was going to cut development time in half. Must be close to zero already even without Claude.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult keep believing, we're not there yet.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult 2029 is still a few years away. We might see a retro-futuristic revival.
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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
It's summer, 1985.
I get a call from my buddy to open this month’s issue of UNIX WORLD magazine to page 110.
I see they are preparing to standardize the C programming language.
I say, “This is a good thing" under my breath.
I am still punk as fuck.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult @bert_hubert version 0.1 of click farms as we know them now...
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It's summer, 1985.
I get a call from my buddy to open this month’s issue of UNIX WORLD magazine to page 110.
I see they are preparing to standardize the C programming language.
I say, “This is a good thing" under my breath.
I am still punk as fuck.
@occult these are all so good!
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It's summer, 1985.
I get a call from my buddy to open this month’s issue of UNIX WORLD magazine to page 110.
I see they are preparing to standardize the C programming language.
I say, “This is a good thing" under my breath.
I am still punk as fuck.
They should re-create this steel-bound UNIX reference manual.
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@occult can confirm this is how I use technology already, get on my level 2026
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116085999024791244
@occult there’s still time
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@Haste Imagine thinking this illustration was appropriate for UNIX WORLD magazine in 1985, geared toward business users, not realizing that in 2026 it could be used as banner art for an LGBTQ+ self-hosted Mastodon instance.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult The only thing off is how excited they look.
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@occult the more of these I see the more I am convinced that their target audience was in fact gay wizards
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@occult literally me coding
