How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix?

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @09:20AM from the one-time-i-repaired-a-crt dept.

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."

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Android Nexus One phone when I was 12 by jmcbain · 2011-07-12 10:28 · Score: 5, Funny

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.