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I read “The Cuckoo’s Egg” in the late 00’s as a student and found it pretty interesting that Cliff Stoll (user cliffstoll here I believe) used many of the same

I read “The Cuckoo’s Egg” in the late 00’s as a student and found it pretty interesting that Cliff Stoll (user cliffstoll here I believe) used many of the same Unix utilities in the 80’s that I was still using. That’s at least one piece of tech that I think has aged well. I’m very nostalgic of the optimism of the 90’s, but I do also remember VHS tapes and photographic film (which I love as a medium but it’s amazingly inconvenient these days) which were clearly compromises. On the other hand, the 90’s were amazing for gaming. The PlayStation and Nintendo 64 were breakthroughs that have held up quite well I think.

ProllyInfamous 3y ago
Mid-00's, I showed up on full scholarship to a prestigious US Private institution, ready to "make a difference." One of my first major bummers was registering for classes using a UNIX shell, a decade older than myself. Without naming the school, I always respected the friend-from-hometown who decided to attend our public state school after our first semester at "the top tier" school [hers was a better choice]. ---- I'm about to begin digitizing VHS from my early-90's childhood — it's incredible to see what ML is allowing for upscaled restorations, often direct from tape (i.e. without having to use analogue video cables)! If I could find locally a decent-condition N64, I'd buy it immediately.