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> Yes and no. Not to be cliche, but times are different. Everything now is digital What did your elders who grew up with books and radios say of the early comp

> Yes and no. Not to be cliche, but times are different. Everything now is digital What did your elders who grew up with books and radios say of the early computers era you’re fond of?

BiteCode_dev 6y ago
There has never been as many books as today. A book still smells like a book. You can still buy beautiful books. In fact, I don't see the difference between the books from my youth and the books now as an adult. But the IT field is certainly very different. However, I don't miss the old modems, the hacks to get my maxtor working, clone CD and emule. I don't miss the floppy, black and white low res monitor, the clunky hardware and the slow or no internet. I like HD. I like thin laptops, WIFI, USB, bittorrent, and a usable linux desktop. I do have nostalgia for how the discovery of the old internet felt, the sense of community, the ethics and dreams. But it doesn't mean the current one is not awesome.
dylan604 6y ago
My elders where in contstruction with fairly low pay for lots of physical work. So my elders saw my interest in electronics and afforded me every opportunity to do something not in the same line of work they endured. That included buying me books to further my studies. They also bought me electronic toys knowing that once I got "bored" with the toy, I would at some point be opening it up to see what made it tick. There are all sorts of electronics besides computers. A CPU is a very small shrunken sets of transistors that are too small for anyone to interact with other than through software (realistically that is). However, older "computer" devices used components large enough you could see and manipulate by hand. The traces on the boards were large enough you could physically scratch/break, and re-wire (reprogramming) causing the device to do something new. To the point, at some stage, stickers reading "No user servicable parts inside" became a thing so people would stop tinkering. That sticker has now been replaced with an apple shaped logo, but they pretty much mean the same thing now.

> Yes and no. Not to be cliche, but times are different. Everything now is digital What did your elders who grew up with books and radios say of the early computers era you’re fond of?

BiteCode_dev 6y ago

There has never been as many books as today. A book still smells like a book. You can still buy beautiful books. In fact, I don't see the difference between the books from my youth and the books now as an adult. But the IT field is certainly very different. However, I don't miss the old modems, the hacks to get my maxtor working, clone CD and emule. I don't miss the floppy, black and white low res monitor, the clunky hardware and the slow or no internet. I like HD. I like thin laptops, WIFI, USB, bittorrent, and a usable linux desktop. I do have nostalgia for how the discovery of the old internet felt, the sense of community, the ethics and dreams. But it doesn't mean the current one is not awesome.

dylan604 6y ago

My elders where in contstruction with fairly low pay for lots of physical work. So my elders saw my interest in electronics and afforded me every opportunity to do something not in the same line of work they endured. That included buying me books to further my studies. They also bought me electronic toys knowing that once I got "bored" with the toy, I would at some point be opening it up to see what made it tick. There are all sorts of electronics besides computers. A CPU is a very small shrunken sets of transistors that are too small for anyone to interact with other than through software (realistically that is). However, older "computer" devices used components large enough you could see and manipulate by hand. The traces on the boards were large enough you could physically scratch/break, and re-wire (reprogramming) causing the device to do something new. To the point, at some stage, stickers reading "No user servicable parts inside" became a thing so people would stop tinkering. That sticker has now been replaced with an apple shaped logo, but they pretty much mean the same thing now.