I don’t think having the Internet would’ve prevented Apple Corp from turning into the clusterfuck it did. It probably would’ve happened much sooner. Because the Suits still want to exploit the Artists for profit; it’s just that nowadays, more and more Artists seem to’ve learned to TCB on their own in order to control their output. But some have become Suits, and more and more Suits are sympathetic to Artists.
So it goes.
LowSpecGamer makes some of the most entertaining videos on the history of computers and video games:
They also have bonus short-form videos that they post exclusively to Nebula:
Never heard of it, but it still works!
I think my father-in-law used some iteration of this to watch local(US) television while he was in the UK for a year for work.
I remember that name! I had no idea what it even looked like.
Isn’t SlingTV still a thing in some streaming channel?
There’s nostalgia, and then there’s history.
CRD is great for this kind of stuff. He does a good job of placing these things in their proper context, and demonstrating them where he can. There were a fair number of these items that I wasn’t previously even aware existed, like the Polaroid Palette.
The modern version of this is a Switch. I documented one way back in the day. I imagine they are smaller now, but even though electronics in general were smaller at the time, the Switch was the size of 7 refrigerators.
so this is probably the most appropriate thread to put this in.
this morning while I was still having my coffee, I was replying to an email from my Gmail account. I wrote for the recipient to refer to a picture and went up to click the paperclip icon to attach the picture. I pressed it and everything disappeared.
I went back to the email and it said it was sent.
this is the type of paperclip that I clicked:
skeuomorph fail. I mean, ok, I clicked the wrong thing, but damn, use an airplane icon for “send” if you want, but isn’t using a paper airplane mixing metaphors?
Trash Eighty with a cassette drive. Swanky.
And that’s what we did for fun with computers in the 80’s, children. We didn’t have no Internet.
I remember playing “Star Trek” on the computer with the daisy-wheel printer w/the modem on which one had to place a telephone receiver to communicate with the other party.
This was 1978 or '79, Computer Science class that I took when I started high school. I dropped it, as at 14, I just wasn’t dedicated enough to care.
