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 The only thing off is how excited they look.
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@occult the more of these I see the more I am convinced that their target audience was in fact gay wizards
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@occult literally me coding
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@occult the more of these I see the more I am convinced that their target audience was in fact gay wizards
@Haste lets be perfectly honest... if you're going to start a magazine focused on UNIX computing in 2026, you really do need to target the gay wizard demographic.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult LOL
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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.
For a woman wearing two wigs at once and tied into her chair by a copper band, she seems awfully happy.
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For a woman wearing two wigs at once and tied into her chair by a copper band, she seems awfully happy.
@CppGuy I don't judge.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult What, that's not how you use your computer?
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult everything, including this laser beam, is a file!
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It's summer, 1985.
I get a call from my buddy to open this month’s issue of UNIX WORLD magazine to page 110.
I see they are preparing to standardize the C programming language.
I say, “This is a good thing" under my breath.
I am still punk as fuck.
@occult ANSI C FOR LIFE
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult @bert_hubert we can still get there! 3 years left!
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Hey #Fediverse! See you all at the 1985 California Computer Show.
@occult
It's only March. That's in May.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult give ai access to nuclear bombs and it will playout with punch cards
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They should re-create this steel-bound UNIX reference manual.
@occult giving new meaning to "throwing the book at someone"
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult that did remind me of the Turbo Pascal advertisement I found in our university basement: https://hci.social/@floe/111726303354095761
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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.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult She's re-charging the time portals so the systems will keep running after the clock strikes midnight 2038. She has less than 9 years to make it work... will she make it in time?
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult and nowadays we had the Wii controllers; 3D cameras for gesture recognition. Though personally I think it would have been cool to have a capacitance-based interface, like a theremin. I suppose the cameras are immune to electrical interference though.
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Editor: quick! I need art to accompany the article on internationalization of #UNIX for our Dec 1985 issue!
Illustrator on shrooms: say no more.
@occult Ha! Incredible thread of ads and art from copies of Unix Review from the 80s.
