If The Pendulum Had Been Peak Swing The Other Way This Illustration Would Have Made Me Upset.

What do you think would surprise a person from the 1950s most about modern computers?

How disposable they've become. We toss away computers like old socks.

How we got away from the model of timesharing for so long, only to go right back to cloud computing. People were so eager to personalize the experience, it's why things like the PDP-1 came into existance in the late 50s.

How much software went from this thing that was freely, openly shared as just a point of fact to a world where people pay for software regularly.

How much people trust a computer to think for them. A computer cannot think, it can only do math really fast, *you* have to think about how to make use of that platform to make your workload easier. People using computers in the 50s understood this implicitly, and now some people want shitty autocomplete to do the hard part for them. The human tasks that are worth doing, but that's a whole rant in itself.

How much computers just get powered off, or just run without doing anything, because of how plentiful and commonplace they are. In the 50s, no computer time was wasted, it was too expensive. If the machine was operational back then, it was busy.

in the art stew diode. straight up “shorpenin it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s just say. my pencels.

who else sharpens their pencils like this

Fire escape. There were some pulleys and weights suspended above that looked neat.

Same idea.

These are great. I really like House’s pose and cigar.

House and Wilson keychain designs for my sister !! They’re graduating this year so I wanted to make them something special :D

I was told to never stop being me somewhat recently. It sounds nice, but man, I wish I could be the person others wanted me to be instead of just being alone.

Look at the palette, the anachronistic subjects, the modest resolution. Oh my god. It even has contrasting orange text.

Windows 95 installation process

Apparently in Japan they had access to this link cable that allowed the PSone to use a cell phone as a modem, turning the console into an E-Machine, doing basic E-Mail, web browsing, etc. A few games supported it as well. A lot of online sites call it the i-Mode adapter or say that i-mode is a PlayStation service, but i-Mode is just an ISP from Japan. Some sources mention that it was only compatible with the PSone and not the PlayStation, but I can’t find why that would be.

Edge Magazine UK August 2000 issue featuring Sony PSone w/ LCD screen peripheral 2000

One of mine to add.

It’s not Unix, it’s Cromix! - Mike Loewen

VCF East XX

Good morning. My mouth tastes like blood and my mind is in a state of sentimentality.