okay but calling LLMs 'an evolutionary dead end' while posting about them on Mastodon is like hosting a funeral for DVDs on LaserDisc #AI #LLM #technostalgia
Oh look, it's 1983 and Ivan Illich discovered that computers are the new overlords making us all robotic drones, stripped of our human essence!
Apparently, our digital age is just one big cattle ranch, with Illich nostalgically longing for the days when silence was golden and not just a sign your internet is down.
http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1983_silence_commons.html #IvanIllich #DigitalOverlords #TechNostalgia #HumanEssence #CattleRanch #1983Reflections #HackerNews #ngated
Ah, yes, another epic tale of bygone tech companies and pixelated nostalgia . Apparently, the founder's passion for producing buggy software tanks faster than a dial-up modem in a thunderstorm
. But fear not, dear reader, the tale of fading interests and corporate sell-outs is as old as Windows 95 bugs!
https://www.filfre.net/2025/07/the-year-of-peak-might-and-magic/ #technostalgia #corporatehistory #softwarefailures #dialupmodem #Windows95 #HackerNews #ngated
Ah yes, the "revolutionary" IBM ThinkPad 701 with its magical
expanding keyboard—because nothing says cutting-edge like a laptop that needed to unfold like a
to be usable. Meanwhile, Fast Company's design innovation: a website that only functions if you disable every modern convenience.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91356463/ibm-thinkpad-701-butterfly-keyboard #IBMThinkPad701 #ExpandingKeyboard #DesignInnovation #TechNostalgia #ModernConvenience #HackerNews #ngated
Apple entierra casi toda la familia AirPort: ya son productos obsoletos, salvo una única excepción.
¿Todavía usas alguno en casa?
#AirPort #Apple #TechNostalgia #AppleX4
I adore the simplicity of "dumb" tech! My Casio F-91W and Sansa Clip+ bring pure joy. These classic devices really seem to shine lately, especially for privacy fans.
Your watch steals your data? Mine has a 12-segment LCD that barely tells the time. Paying for data to stream music? I beam tunes to my brain all day for free through my (wired) Sennheiser IE 100 Pro earbuds.
Ah, the glorious days when the X Window System didn't have X terminals! Now, you're probably blocked from reading this because your HTTP UserAgent is too "generic"—a fate worse than death!
Remember, kids, if your UserAgent isn't as unique as a snowflake, you'll be banished from the kingdom of #WanderingThoughts forever!
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XTerminalsNotImmediate #XWindowSystem #HTTPUserAgent #UserAgentSnowflake #TechNostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
Ah yes, because what the world really needs is a CPR class for a 1966 chatbot . IEEE bravely reanimates #ELIZA, proving once again that tech nostalgia can be even more #cringeworthy than your uncle's disco moves at a wedding
.
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/02/11030922/27sQDLuL7Uc #CPRforChatbots #TechNostalgia #ReanimatingHistory #HackerNews #ngated
Ah, yes, the riveting world of #Telnet, where one PhD student heroically battles with ancient tech to bring us... well, nothing new. If you're looking for a cutting-edge thrill, look elsewhere; this was "fun" in 1974, not 2024.
https://brandonrozek.com/blog/fun-with-telnet/ #TelnetTales #PhDStudent #TechNostalgia #AncientTech #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
BREAKING: Tech nostalgia reaches new heights as we now 3D print *endangered* colors! Because clearly, your life was missing vintage Mac hues
. Meanwhile, actual endangered species continue to not care
.
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2025/06/new-filament-lets-you-3d-print-parts-in-authentic-1980s-apple-computer-color/ #TechNostalgia #3DPrinting #EndangeredColors #VintageMac #ConservationAwareness #HackerNews #ngated
When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/06/04/history_computer_vision/
make: *** [all] Error 1
fatal error: frobnicator.h: No such file or directory
If those lines don’t trigger a flashback, you weren’t there.
I dual-booted NT 3.1 and Red Hat when headers were missing, modems screamed, and time slipped.
You didn’t *use* Linux back then — you summoned it.
This MacBook? Now running Linux Mint Xfce.
Just to give Apple the middle finger... and those days a nod.
make: *** [all] Error 1
fatal error: frobnicator.h: No such file or directory
If those lines don’t trigger a flashback, you weren’t there.
I dual-booted NT 3.1 and Red Hat when headers were missing, modems screamed, and time slipped.
You didn’t *use* Linux back then — you summoned it.
This MacBook? Now running Linux Mint Xfce.
Just to give Apple the middle finger... and those days a nod.
The Slacker G2 Personal Radio Player, released in 2008, integrated Slacker Radio's free music service with built-in Wi-Fi for playback on-the-go.
¿Gente con móviles en cuadros del siglo XVII?
Spoiler: no viajaron en el tiempo...
¡Eran libros de oraciones! Pero claro, nuestro cerebro del siglo XXI ve un iPhone en todas partes
#Curiosidades #Viral #Arte #TechNostalgia
Behold the "next-gen" mainboard that's 30 years late to the party, designed for the ghost towns of #AmigaOS4 and MorphOS!
It's like resurrecting a dinosaur and assuring everyone it's the future of transportation.
https://mirari.vitasys.nl/ #nextgenmainboard #MorphOS #technostalgia #retrocomputing #resurrection #HackerNews #ngated
Using the Apple ][+ with the RetroTink-5X
https://nicole.express/2025/apple-ii-more-like-apple-5x.html