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Immediate nostalgia activated. I ran this on a Pentium machine (I think) at home, still living with my parents. Sometimes I yearn for the optimism and relative
by alex_suzuki 8mo ago
Immediate nostalgia activated. I ran this on a Pentium machine (I think) at home, still living with my parents. Sometimes I yearn for the optimism and relative naïveté of those times.
- estimator7292 8mo agoPentium 3 in a crusty Compaq with a 5.25" bigfoot hard drive. Those were the days
- sjm-lbm 8mo agoI still have both the screensaver and the moment that I realized that disabling the screensaver allowed processing to happen meaningfully quicker burned into my mind.
- saganus 8mo agoI was running my K6-2 and I was _convinced_ it was superior to equivalent Intel CPUs. Spent hours watching the graph hoping to get triplets and some kind of confirmation that I just found ET. Miss those days so much.
- j79 8mo agoSame. Although with the curse of hindsight, I painfully recall choosing to run SETI@home instead of "mining" some weird digital currency called Bitcoin back in 2010. So, painful.
- MD1032 8mo agoExactly the same here. Ran SETI@home on all my machines back in the day. I remember running this weird bitcoin ‘thing’ for an entire week on my main machine which generated around 1.4 btc. Then I DELETED it.
- rkomorn 8mo agoTell me about it. When Brave started the whole BAT thing 8 years ago, I had a wallet with $25 in it. Lost access to it but today that wallet would be worth over $10.
- sierra1011 8mo agoAnd today that wallet would be worth $6. But tomorrow it could be worth $8.
- rkomorn 8mo agoIt's optimism like this that keeps me in the market.