Why do you pine for days past?

Why do you pine for days past?

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Because things were a lot more difficult to achieve in those days. Everyone was taking part in an experiment. Back in 1992 only 2% of us in the UK had an IBM compatible PC in our home. less than 1% had a connection to the internet from home. I started cracking shareware back then to make it into the full program. I was programming in C and Pascal. I actually remember the first Computer exchange (CEX) in London Not too far from UCL and they sold used technology you just couldnt find anywhere else. The learning curve was so steep it made your ears bleed. Theses days all the magic has gone from coputing it is too easy, there are very very few interesting websites (everything now is just trying to sell something) All the software you need is free if you use Linux and all the windows software is affordable. Theres no struggle any more, theres nothing to learn anymore or even if there is it takes 10 minutes

Software was incredibly simpler and the communities were tighter

As time goes on I want more the functional simplicity of those times. It's clear that we are just totally unable to actually implement the complexity of systems that we desire in any real way.

I also kind of miss the lack of choice. You got a computer, and that was fucking it. I think choice paralysis is a real thing.

I say this as someone whose computer use is becoming simpler and simpler, to now where all I really want from a computer is a word processor that works.

Also you needed "less" to have what is seen as a fully functioning computer. The context has changed from a computer being something with which "to do," and has become something that is "done."

Because I was happier.

The Atari ST's entire OS was on 512K of ROM.

Because you worked with one thing at a time and had one thing at a time open. Nowadays I have 3 bajillion things open and it's tiresome as fuck

dialup BBSs: knowing a smaller people all over town with varied interests rather than knowing people all over the world over a varied interest

This. Multi-tasking at the human level is a meme. Once concentration is broken it can take anywhere from 10 minutes to 30 minutes to regain it. Humans can not multi-task.
>in before people who think they have special brains.

>Also you needed "less" to have what is seen as a fully functioning computer.

Are you kidding, hardware was way more expensive

Computers somehow felt more.. real? More tactile - floppy and hdd sounds, crt monitors, yadda yadda. And the software was so snappy (no lag). I guess it might be like comparing an old race-car to a modern econobox..

I didn't mean in a financial sense. I meant that the gap between an inert and empty system and a fully usable one was far less than what we have now. It used to be that you'd have a stack of floppies for the OS and occasional drivers for specialist hardware, and from there it's all done.

because i'm depressed and lonely if im being honest

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Less non-whites in general and less women in the workplace

>pine

What's with the sudden surge in usage of this word in the last couple weeks?
Does some e-celeb use it often or what?

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Is it time to just take the FreeDOS pill?

Smaller amount of people with computers and online communities were not consolidated under a few social media platforms.

Universal consciousness

I remember back in college I took our old DOS PC with me (this was early 00's) because the current family computer was still being used, and all I had was a DOS version of Word, and obviously no web browser to anything, and I had never been as productive before or since.

Old devices in general had a more utilitarian focus. One thing I dislike a lot about the way things are now is the centralisation of devices, where all things that were once done by various technologies are now done entirely by one schizophrenic device.

Because back then I was still capable of being in awe of things, now I can't even enjoy my hobbies.

Because the world was probably a shithole just like now, but I didn't realize.

This, I want to be ignorant again.

The world has been on a constant cultural decline for over a century now, so your feeling that it was better then is true, but it was also better before that.

the blurry line between personal computer and embedded system was kind of neat and things were much more data/information-oriented which appeals to my autism

but I don't really pine for it, nothing stopping you from using old technology today or fucking around with microcontrollers

Pre-social media was better in that consensual or not, data collection was not rampant and so you had the right to for better or worse be retarded and/or speak your mind as there would be no repercussions and any personally identifiable info woulf be likely quickly lost. Now your actions are on stage.

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No, it sucked

we put up with primitive 8-bit systems with fewer features as home users because that was all we could afford and there was no other option, while most of the fundamental complexities of modern computing existed in some form on high-end systems by the late 1960s and early 1970s, and they were used quite extensively.

guess it's all context-dependent, but even when they were brand new a lot of people thought microcomputers were toys that weren't suitable for real work.

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Do I?

Because I was happier and less self-conscious when I was younger.
The technology was worse, but my experience as a person colors the shitty tech positively.