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> In these years, Cherry recalls, the potential of the computer had barely been tapped, and if asked what she did for a living, she would say that her job was t
by mastazi 5y ago
> In these years, Cherry recalls, the potential of the computer had barely been tapped, and if asked what she did for a living, she would say that her job was to “see what kind of neat new things I can make the computer do, and in those days the computer wasn’t doing a lot, but it was super interesting and there was a lot more stuff you could make it do.”
It would have been so different. What we have now must feel like an Eternal September to anyone who was around back then.
- jamiek88 5y agoDon’t you just ache to have missed it? Oh to have been forging that frontier!
- mbarbar 5y agoWonder what frontier we'll look back on in the same way in 50 years.
- mastazi 5y agoYeah, I was wondering the same, I know for sure it's not the industry I'm in, which is now "mature" and boring. It's probably something we're not even familiar with because it's so niche. Or maybe it is something that we know, but to our eyes it doesn't seem that powerful. In the same way that people used to think of computers as just tools for doing multiplications and other arithmetic operations and they could have never imagined everything else that computers do.