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I always viewed technical magazines as pages of advertisement because we don't see them on TV and it was the only platform for them to be noticed when there wa
by ezconnect 3y ago
I always viewed technical magazines as pages of advertisement because we don't see them on TV and it was the only platform for them to be noticed when there was less adaption of internet.
- reaperducer 3y agoLess adoption? There was no internet to adopt in 1981. If by some miracle your computer was on a network, it was CompuServe or Delphi or that one that catered to Apples. If you wanted to send an email, you did it at a public terminal at a university or a hippie tech commune.
- mistrial9 3y agomore specifically, there were two kinds of centralized network engineers in those days: military trained, and those that named their servers after Tolkien characters. The de-centralized BBS operators over common-carrier telephone lines were supposedly "hobbyists" but the patterns they established grew stronger over time. "hippie" is a slur btw, no one that was one would say that.. The word comes from a Look Magazine article on San Francisco IIR
- reaperducer 3y agoIf you think hippie is a slur, you weren't there.