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 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“
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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.
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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... -
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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.
