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 and nowadays we had the Wii controllers; 3D cameras for gesture recognition. Though personally I think it would have been cool to have a capacitance-based interface, like a theremin. I suppose the cameras are immune to electrical interference though.
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Editor: quick! I need art to accompany the article on internationalization of #UNIX for our Dec 1985 issue!
Illustrator on shrooms: say no more.
@occult Ha! Incredible thread of ads and art from copies of Unix Review from the 80s.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult @forestine they were right, the internet *is* full of gay women with bangs using unix derivatives
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@occult Ha! Incredible thread of ads and art from copies of Unix Review from the 80s.
@pinkpolonium I’ve been reading the articles, and I find it all fascinating. Especially the areas of computing that have not changed one bit!
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult It’s not too late to make this a reality!
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@occult @forestine they were right, the internet *is* full of gay women with bangs using unix derivatives
@jepyang @forestine yeah like, by Mrch 2029 this actually will be a 100% accurate prediction. I'm impressed.
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@pinkpolonium I’ve been reading the articles, and I find it all fascinating. Especially the areas of computing that have not changed one bit!
@occult Incredible. My dad was a punchcard-era techie, and I often wonder what he’d find similar vs. horrifically alien about computing then and now.
Such a cool thread and thanks for posting!
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult we’ve got three more years to make this happen
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@occult we’ve got three more years to make this happen
@what I'm pretty sure it has happened!
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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
40 years of 'AI finds the bugs' and the main productivity gain is that the debugging conversation is now with a chatbot instead of a rubber duck.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult That's the most fun looking zeerust I've seen in 15 years.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult not wrong
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult RADICAL!!
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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 Also note, Usenet, Telex... but no phone number!
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This is an original ad for a #UNIX computer company.
No AI art here! You can see the artist’s signature over the dragon’s wing.
@occult I wasn't aware Gould made any kind of computers. I know them for their measuring equipment. You can see some of their logic analyzers in the popular Sci-Fi movie "Nukie".
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This is an original ad for a #UNIX computer company.
No AI art here! You can see the artist’s signature over the dragon’s wing.
@occult As someone who commissions furry artists a lot, such an image is surprisingly cheap by commercial standards. In this quality (it is a tad sketchy at some parts) you'd probably pay something like a thousand dollars or less. Far less than running a double-page advertisement costs you.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult There's still time.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult@vox.ominous.net And look at the dumpster fire happening now. So sad.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult is this not how we do computing now? seems accurate enough.
