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Last weekend I was sitting in a car while my son who needs hours to get his license was driving. We were in the middle of nowhere in Ohio with nothing but cornf

by lsh123 4y ago

Last weekend I was sitting in a car while my son who needs hours to get his license was driving. We were in the middle of nowhere in Ohio with nothing but cornfields around us. On my iPad, I was watching real-time 1080p stream of my other son playing hockey half way across the country. I still remember the sound of modem connecting though I wouldn’t claim anymore I can whistle myself to get the connection going. Heck, I still remember the time when you had to schedule long distance (anything in another town) phone calls in advance and wait for an operator to call you back when the connection was ready. Never used WordPerfect and don’t care much. Turbo Pascal on the other hand is still a high bar for modern IDEs.

zoom6628 4y ago
Used wordstar on early pc 1989 to write tomes of my user interviews when implementing ERP systems. Back then was writing COBOL on Wang minis for ERP systems. Things just worked. BBS worked really well and were fun. Fast forward to 1996 and gopher land and list servers were a whole lot of fun, and just worked. Had learned pascal but never got to use at work. TP as above said set a benchmark for speed and ease of use. Today one needs vi with plugins to achieve same. Nowadays I prefer vi for all file editing except GUI stuff when modern ide can be very helpful. And home code mostly in python because I’m casual and can’t hold everything in my head so python code written in vi or using thonny is fun. My 2c.