I am interested in any old tech fags who were around during the glory days of computing to check out my friend's project that builds on Englebart and his NLS system from 1960, and later Ted Nelson with Xanadu.
to me, it seems that computing took a turn for the worse, and now we live in a sea of bloatware and complete OS inefficiency.
I would love your thoughts on Mimix:
mimix.io
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When people realized you could put ads on the internet
i feel like i've seen this thread before
mimix looks good though; definitely a step in the right direction
just use openbsd you fucking niggerfaggot, it has everything YOU want
But can it RUN CRYSIS???
just use plan9 u dumb spazmoid
it didnt go wrong, you're just retarded
>where did computing go wrong?
When technology, computing and programming became a normie thing
fpbp
fucking Canter and Siegel
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When programming stopped being about solving problems and started being about googling the answers and copy/pasting someone else's solution into your code.
Also, stop shilling your fucking website you fucking shill.
The GUI was the end of computing as a technical process.
i met an old guy who programmed in octal machine code for ibm mainframes
he got mad when they introduced assembler
uhhh what?
Minorities, smartphones, social media, ads
>Anyone who uses a word processor for very long inevitably has the experience of putting hours of work into a long document and then losing it because the computer crashes or the power goes out. Until the moment that it disappears from the screen, the document seems every bit as solid and real as if it had been typed out in ink on paper. But in the next moment, without warning, it is completely and irretrievably gone, as if it had never existed. The user is left with a feeling of disorientation (to say nothing of annoyance) stemming from a kind of metaphor shear--you realize that you've been living and thinking inside of a metaphor that is essentially bogus.
The internet in the 2000's was a free market for consumers and hobbyists to pursue whatever interested them. If you wanted obscure music you can go to blogs, forums about obscure subjects, porn. The big comporations like facebook and google destroyed a lot of these niche sites people would use so now you consume all your music from one place, all your social media from one place, all your porn from one place. The big companies control what you do and where you go on the internet.
They also changed the entire culture. While it's easy to say "these niche sites still exist" and look big-brained for saying it, they exist contrary to the dominant culture rather than as part of it. And you can tell that the people who curate these sites don't really BELIEVE in it any more.
>my friend's
Suuuure... How about you stop spamming your shitty undergrad thesis every day on this board? You aren't gonna become famous by posting that shit here over and over, I promise.
>And you can tell that the people who curate these sites don't really BELIEVE in it any more
believe in what?