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 I mean instead of QR codes we could have had this
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@occult when computing abandoned rainbows, the future went dark.
@llewelly I'd argue there’s plenty of rainbows around the Fediverse!
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@occult @Haste@mastodon.social they really liked to put rainbows on computers in the 80s, i guess to indicate that they could display more than two colours.
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@occult @Haste@mastodon.social they really liked to put rainbows on computers in the 80s, i guess to indicate that they could display more than two colours.
@burnitdown for sure. I mean, it was a choice and it represented color graphics, but it sure hits differently in 2026!
There are lots of examples in these old magazines like this. We lost this kind of original, experimental advertising. This was all in an otherwise stuffy UNIX magazine with articles about relational databases and reports from the front lines on C standardization committees.
Compared to what we see today, it's very refreshing.
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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
I could see this one becoming a real thing --- using your smart phone to project QR codes to your desktop computer's screen camera to control them or send files. Now if only we could project laser light from our smart phones. -
Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult I mean is not wrong
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult I mean.... Hey it's kinda possible :3
Not sure how the user experience would be like using those lasers but at least if someone really wants to go for it and design that all by themselves then the image is technically correct :3 -
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 "... or else it gets the hose again."
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult
The hair. -
Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult she is truly "wired" whereas this woman is "tired":
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Olivia Newton-John is re-enacting the Lawnmower Man sequence when he's trying to get out of the mainframe to the world?
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@bromagosa @meeper @occult Exactly:
01/2028: singularity
02/2028: human writes prompt „create a hand-held device to control computers by colorful laser beams“
03/2028: humankind finally happy again. -
Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Almost perfectly predicted.
But instead of fibre optic hats, we now wear aluminium hats. -
Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
Almost there! Only a few hurdles left to get out of the way.
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@occult she is truly "wired" whereas this woman is "tired":
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Almost there! Only a few hurdles left to get out of the way.
@zenbeater @occult yep, those pesky hover chairs just don't work right yet ...
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@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.
