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"The kids of today should defend themselves against the Seventies" - Pearl Jam, itself a somewhat dated cultural icon. It's interesting to think about the cult
by derleth 14y ago
"The kids of today should defend themselves against the Seventies" - Pearl Jam, itself a somewhat dated cultural icon.
It's interesting to think about the cultural impact of this if it really catches on, at least in the hacker/geek world. This isn't just a tech demo: It's a self-conscious reconstruction of a cultural artifact, and drags along with it other cultural references and context. Nobody these days is going to 'grow up' with an Apple ][ because of things like this, but, previously, the only way to experience that specific system was to either have been born in the narrow window of time where you had one when they were still at least vaguely mainstream, or to decide to run an emulator and likely get into emulation as a hobby. It's the difference between knowing every Beach Boys song because you grew up in 1960s California, knowing them because you deliberately chose to collect that era's music, and knowing them because, like me, your parents played them practically from your birth and so they became the first band you really liked.
This just makes the past that much more mainstream, the software equivalent of the deliberately dated aesthetic of a Quentin Tarantino film.
- unimpressive 14y agohttp://jsmess.textfiles.com/ http://jsmess.textfiles.com/ Stuff like this is just the tip of the iceberg.
- derleth 14y agoI was actually aware of that. Jason Scott is going to be personally responsible for some interesting cultural developments.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoOoh! There's been a MAME port too, right?
- taybin 14y agoAre you saying this is a bad thing? Continuity of culture is a good thing.
- derleth 14y ago> Are you saying this is a bad thing? No, I'm saying it's a new thing. This kind of continuity hasn't been anywhere near this accessible before.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoYeah, but I feel the fact that culture shifts this fast is also a bit of a new thing. For most of the entire rest of human history, technology didn't change as much in a 10 year period, let alone in 1-3 generations. Hence elders were held in great regards in most societies, probably because their accumulated knowledge never became obsolete in their lifetimes.
- xbryanx 14y agoI know this is the wrong place to be a music pedant (is there a right place?), but that's a Mike Watt song, featuring Eddie Vedder on vocals, not a Pearl Jam tune.