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wonderful stuff I have a bunch of the old ones from my late father, I have sunk thousands of hours in old computer magazines, there's something special to them
by muyuu 8mo ago
wonderful stuff
I have a bunch of the old ones from my late father, I have sunk thousands of hours in old computer magazines, there's something special to them that the new world cannot capture anymore.
- xattt 8mo agoIt was the accessibility. You were learning computing concepts from scratch, that would then increase in complexity in real-time as your learning caught up if you were actively engaged.
- muyuu 8mo agoalso the importance and the degree of care that was put into things that were published, and what all the constraints meant also in computing itself there were strong positives to that, and they just cannot be replicated in a society of hyper-abundance and slop