My thirties? meh
Yes. Although, more than the technology or the culture, I probably miss being a kid with a bright future ahead of him…
Playing Unreal Tournament and Duke Nuken 3D with everyone else in the lab.
Hell no
I miss computer time being something special.
It is special again - when you switch from your phone to the computer :D
Greatly. Rather, I miss the days where it was easy to unplug.
Not really, but I do remember those things used to keep a room warm.
Nah, I miss the 8 and 16 bit eras
They lined the walls of the special computer room at my school, but we used them more as a kind of nerds recess than for actually teaching anything
Oh, this was the case at my school too! The lab became a nerd lounge during lunch and recess.
I’ll be honest I don’t really miss a lab full of win95 shit boxes further crippled by net nanny. It was just a partial escape from the other abuses of middle and high school.
I miss not being exposed to every low IQ chode’s trashcan opinions on social media. And I really miss not watching those low IQ chode’s trashcan opinions influencing large numbers of other low IQ chodes into doing things like making a felon rapist pedophile our leader.
I miss not being exposed to every low IQ chode’s trashcan opinions on social media
That’s on you. Social media is not a necessity, it’s actually pretty simple to avoid.
not watching those low IQ chode’s trashcan opinions influencing large numbers of other low IQ chodes into doing things like making a felon rapist pedophile our leader.
Thomas Jefferson, Grover Cleveland, and Bill Clinton predate social media.
I too miss the day when the internet was for geeks and nerds, (and anyone who wasn’t never left MySpace). Now everyone is online, and the novelty has been ruined. Not to mention how much more centralized the internet is now, compared to 20-30 years ago. Everyone visits the same five websites/apps now.
They said learn to code. 😂
I miss having enough friends that we could have a full 5v5 in CS without needing bots or the server open to the internet. Especislly true of high school, where I had CS and a few other games installed on the network (we had a networking class and our teacher was also the IT manager for the district and the 5 people in the class were given admin access for something and it was never revoked) so literally every PC on the network had access to it and you could be playing a game in any class, any period.
We like to look at this era through rose tinned glasses. You had not a lot of processing power, not a lot of storage space, insecure code (and internet) everywhere, flimsy methods of portable storage and slow network transfer speeds. A lot of software was not mature enough for everyday use. Energy inefficient. Yet, we made it work.
It was in some ways romantic, computers were a cool thing, not a necessity for everyday life (yes, I’m counting phones as computers - fight me). That’s what I miss the most. We weren’t connected all the time and the software market space was unexplored and unexploited. It felt new and exciting, but it was flawed in so many ways. This counts both for pc’s and the internet.There was a time where you could just turn it all off and no one would ever question you about it.
I do, especially the couple of years before the internet really took off.
