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I have a bit more positive look on the future: Jan-2038 is just before my retirement. I can make some money with old computer knowledge while the post-post mill
by thesimp 8y ago
I have a bit more positive look on the future: Jan-2038 is just before my retirement. I can make some money with old computer knowledge while the post-post millennial generation does not even know what the inside of an old operating system looks like.
- platz 8y agoYour old computer knowledge will be about the same worth as what income that can be generated today having extensive knowledge of Multi-User Dungeon forum software.
- jjoonathan 8y agoThe world does not run on MUDs. The world does run on 30 year old OSes.
- ben_w 8y agoPerhaps, perhaps not. I’ve seen things go both ways. On the one hand, circa 2005 I made an audio recording at 16-bit/44k samples per second, of my graphics lecturer saying “40 joints, 24 samples per second, 16 bits per sample is a huge amount of data. A megabyte after only five minutes!” (My hard drive being 40 gig back then). On the other hand, when I graduated I ended up seeing several of the algorithms he taught us in use in workplace that did a lot of highly optimised graphics processing.
- jonathankoren 8y agoSo... incredibly lucrative if Ready Player One is to be believed.
- edoo 8y agoMUDs were advanced data processing systems. As a kid I wrapped my head around one with a 100k line code base. That has led to quite a successful career and I still use a lot of the same techniques I learned.