Olds go nostalgic for the good old days of tech

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No corkscrew?

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Related, this will induce nostalgia for a certain subset of olds:

Also related:

Veronica mentioned the site above in a Patreon post related to this video. It’s a good overview of static site generators, and there’s some nostalgia for the 90s-early 2000s web.

I recently set up a static site for my daughter to be able to share the video game she’s been working on with her friends. I used Jekyll to generate it and host it on GitLab pages. It was mostly straightforward, and a lot more fun that setting up Wordpress.

Also also related:

Both of these are trying to address/resist the gravity to move all of the web to platforms rather than sites.

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Wait, is this an Amiga reference?

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“ small, dedicated affinity communities are a dying breed. “Facebook really put a damper on the proliferation of smaller communities of people with a shared interest,” he says, in favour of larger platforms full of audiences which could be mined for data and served with advertisements.”

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How would he know if small online communities are a dying breed, when by his own definition they can’t be mined for data, etc.?

I’m in quite a few, and they’re all doing great. Meanwhile, the larger, more public communities are plagued with issues stemming from data mining and advertising, as well as too many Nazis trying to enter the local bar.

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I believe this is Data.

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Maybe at first glance, but dancing around like that makes it obvious it’s Lore.

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I did not catch that subtle point.

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What I watched 30 years ago:
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Standin’ on a corner
Suitcase in my hand
Jack’s in his car, says to Jane, who’s in her vest
And me, I’m in a rock ‘n’ roll band

Ridin’ in a Stutz Bearcat, Jim
You know those were different times
All, all the poets studied rows of verse
And those ladies, they rolled their eyes

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Remember the good ol’ days of Win10? Here’s how to get extended security updates (spoiler: it’ll cost you $30)

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Me neither but here we are :sob:

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If we’re discussing Win7 then…

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