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 Can't wait for the final version of UNIX!
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult the future they robbed of us -
Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Weird. That's exactly how I make my music.
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@occult the future they robbed of us
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult It's uncanny
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There's still time for Bell riots before 2029.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult You never see imagination with an eye towards an improvement in displays, do you?
Like this wild laser control being used on the same CRTs of the day 50 years later.
Really speaks to the importance of design in the evolution of technology I guess.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult this one's going to come true where it's 2 other personal devices needed to login to your work computer, and your employer needs you to buy and maintain those more expensive devices yourself
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult They got the hair colouring right at least.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult is that Sia?
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@bromagosa @meeper @occult OK I'm screenshotting that and heading to the hair salon right away.
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@256k I know man...
@256k@merveilles.town
So let's take it back! We need to pass on knowledge, encourage curiosity and a desire to tinker in the younger generations. We have to be the counterweight to big tech and their abstractions, walled gardens and locked down hardware. I got my daughter an old laptop to play with for her birthday in March. I'll show her how to disassemble it, tell her what the components are, and she will have to learn how to navigate the filesystem to use it properly. I'll answer questions but I won't hand-hold. I'm curious to see what she does with it.
CC: @256k@merveilles.town
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult I have the hair color nailed.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Apparently cathode ray tubes are future.
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@occult Apparently cathode ray tubes are future.
@starlily if only.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult I think I could pull off the jumpsuit but I'm not sure about the hair
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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 Good times! And more sensible than BITNET.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult the Unix hairstyle is interesting
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wivax was a VAX at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, MA where Cadmus was based.
The TELEX number printed right next to it is also interesting. This represents telegraph infrastructure and the infant internet, side by side in a transitional moment.
@occult I remember seeing USENET posts from the Beijing Telegraph Agency around the late 1990s, and bta.net.cn is still registered to China Unicom (who appear to still use the Telegraph Hall in Beijing, although it no longer uses it for sending telegrams)
