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How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix?
Vrtigo1 writes "I keep a Pentium Pro CPU on my desk underneath my monitor because it reminds me of simpler times. Every once in a while I want to revisit the old days of the original Doom, the phonebook-sized Computer Shoppers, when you looked forward to the demo CD that came with Computer Gaming World because the Internet was too slow to distribute software, and when Falcon Northwest's Mach V was the envy of many a geek. IRC is just about the only technology I can think of that's still in use today and still looks the same as it did in the early nineties. So where do you go when you need to regress back to simpler times and get your nostalgia fix? I foolishly trashed my old tech mags, and there isn't a whole lot online that has survived from that long ago."
People are still refusing to migrate from Windows XP.
I open a terminal window on my Mac. Do it every day for one reason or another.
It's particularly fun to go fullscreen with it and run nethack, and people actually think you're doing something very brainy and technical.
You feel nostalgic about THAT? Damn you, now I feel ancient. I still remember waiting for those INPUT magazines, with BASIC listings of games and other software for Spectrum/TSR80/MSX/Apple/etc. Get off my lawn!
(Cue for "You had BASIC?!", "Punchcards" and other even older geezers that will make me feel a bit younger)
I use Windows at times. That way I remember how nice Debian Linux is.
It is slower, uglier, and reminds me of the olde days.
I think he plays a lawyer on TV.
I love computing nostalgia. When I was 12, I got my first Android Nexus One phone. Man, that was good stuff, well before Angry Birds and everything. I wrote some of my own games using an old-fashioned programming language (Java). This was back in the day before Python and JavaScript and all that.