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Ask Slashdot: Will You Start Your Kids On Classic Games Or Newer Games?
An anonymous reader writes "An article at The Verge got me thinking. Parents and those of you who plan to become parents: will you introduce your kids to the games you played when you were younger? Those of us who grew up playing Pong, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man have had a chance to see gaming software evolve into the enormously complex and graphically realistic beast it is today. I've begun to understand why my grandparents tried to get me to watch old movies. I'm also curious how you folks plan to teach your kids about computers and software in general. When teaching them Linux, do you just download the latest stable Mint or Ubuntu release and let them take it from there? Do you track down a 20-year-old version of Slackware and show them how things used to be? I can see how there would be value in that... the UIs we use every day have been abstracted so far away from their roots that we can't always expect new users to intuitively grasp the chain of logic. How do you think this should be handled?"
That's because The UNIX Way Is Timeless.
The UNIX Way of doing things is inherently fundamental to the way computing works. It's a representation of the natural laws, and hence is always relevant, and will always be relevant.
The UNIX Way is a lot like mathematics or physics. They are merely descriptions of the reality that is. They are independent of time. They don't rot or become outdated. They may be built upon, and enhanced in one way or another, but they are inherently robust and unchanging at their very cores.
The UNIX Way will outlive you. It will outlive me. It will outlive our children, their children, and however deep along your line of descendants you wish to travel. As long as there is existence, there will be The UNIX Way.