Hey, fediverse (and bsd.network!)
I want to hear about your formative tech years!
What did you love in years past? What made you think "if we have something like *this* today, the future is certain to be amazing?"
For me, it was a C64 in our basement and a subscription to Loadstar. Getting the chance to try out so much of what other people had made, hundreds or thousands of miles away? There were some absolute treasures, delivered right to my mailbox, that changed my whole idea of what computers could be. 😍
@Wayves It's amazing to me how well early business software still holds up, too. :)
@pamela I had my C64 for ages after. I inherited other family parts, monitor, a second drive, software. I kept using thru high school for homework despite having access to a lab of Apple IIes. I think it was amazing that 1 keyboard unit could be expanded from cartridge to tape drive, to disk drive. I miss that. The phone I'm using to toot this on is built for obsolescence.
@sikkdays that has definitely been a change for the worse. I miss hardware designed to last in general!
@pamela Learning how to use Microsoft Multiplan. It was revolutionary.