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 that hairdo though
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult We still have 3 years to achieve this! Let's work on it!

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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
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@Stacky@hulvr.com @occult@vox.ominous.net and we still have 3 years to make the rest happen
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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.