Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does.
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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.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Looks about right if things keep going the way they are
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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.
@occult@vox.ominous.net Megaphone? I-isn't that the speaker / earpiece for an old timey phone?
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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 Thanks to Linux I've been computing like that since 1995
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult I saw this without context… it would be great to have linked to archive.org
Seems confirmed real, not AI. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/28374/Unix-World-March-1985/
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Absolutely unrealistic.
Everyone knows that it's BLUE waves of light that control computers!
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@occult I saw this without context… it would be great to have linked to archive.org
Seems confirmed real, not AI. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/28374/Unix-World-March-1985/
@neilk Yep, in the root of the thread here I link to Archive.org and I mention the titles / issue numbers etc.
