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 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)
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@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)
@vfrmedia It’s wild to have witnessed these areas connecting all over the world one by one pre-modern-infrastructure and protocols.
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From a 1991 SunExpert magazine article about “What’s to come” for network protocols. The article depicts a man traveling into the 2020’s, seemingly unaware of the chaos he’ll find.
He’s going to pass @prahou traveling back in time to 1991 to get some mint condition Sun workstations.
Hey #Fediverse! See you all at the 1985 California Computer Show.
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Hey #Fediverse! See you all at the 1985 California Computer Show.
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
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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 English to C translator! That is Claude like in more way than one
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult this is how exactly I imagine vibe coding
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
Aged poorly.
CRTs—the reason why Kubrick's 2001 looks more modern today than Ridley Scott's Alien.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult They previewed DRAM prices and the return to the only terminals we'll be able to buy in three years.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult Fuck that, I just want the wig!
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult can confirm this is how I use technology already, get on my level 2026
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult nailed it. uncanny.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult She's holding phones & is scanning QR codes. They nailed it.
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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 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 keep believing, we're not there yet.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult 2029 is still a few years away. We might see a retro-futuristic revival.
