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Y2K was different because we got to see different shapes, sizes and types of hardware because there were so many companies that produced them. Nowadays it’s most a monopoly or a duopoly and everyone tries to copy whatever that is released by Apple and it’s quite boring
"When work felt like home" Gosh I haven't experienced that in a while. Working remote really does feel like a death sentence sometimes
It's because of all the added abstractions. 20-30 years ago you were closer to the metal, similarly to how you would play with arduino now. But now all you get is blackboxes which fogs the mind. De-alienate yourself! Feel the tools again! Learn low-level concepts and use them in your work (data-driven design, functional programming, etc.). Then it's like woodworking and cooking again.
These photos are incredible. Would love to see a show with the seriousness and production quality of Mad Men but set in the 90s.
Well, my career started in 2000, so maybe that would be better. Just imagine a shop entirely staffed by white kids quoting whatever the zeitgeist had spat out last to each other while boiling over about trying to make a static website look right across IE, Netscape 4 and the oddity that was IE on Mac (way ahead of its time in CSS, but support was all over the place). Start with the “Whazzzzzuuuppp” of the Budweiser F…
Ah yes, back when caring about hardware was a thing. Early 90s, new top-of-line Compaq arrives, for me, project manager. We open it to install network card - token ring (yes, it sucked to be you - you could almost see the little tokens slouching round the ring). me: jesus, just look at that heat-sink! male programmer: yeah, they really knocked it out with that anodised blue - can i get the next one? female tech lead:…
In recent years I've stepped into quite a lot of offices that look a lot like the Blueberry office circa y2k. And, in fact, all of the trendier offices I've been in since I started work at around that time have looked a lot like the Blueberry office circa y2k.
Why that strikes me as slightly odd is that if you rewound a further 26 years to 1974 I suspect things would probably look very different. And, of course, the past 26 years have had quite an impact on the way I look.
I notice the Cold Fusion book in the second photo didn't get a mention but I can't overstate: that was hot shit back then. If you knew Cold Fusion in 1999/2000 you could pretty much name your day rate contracting in the City of London. Sadly I did not know Cold Fusion and graduated into the ongoing dotcom crash during y2k so I took what I could get job-wise.
"When work felt like home" Gosh I haven't experienced that in a while. Working remote really does feel like a death sentence sometimes
Goatse... Ouch that brings back memories.
I tried googling for the original picture, but it's nowhere to be found. Pity that such precious cultural artefacts are lost while poo sculptures are idolized.
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I tried googling for the original picture, but it's nowhere to be found. Pity that such precious cultural artefacts are lost while poo sculptures are idolized.
Part of me says nothing of value was lost but you formulate it so eloquent that it is a shame that the cultural reference is lost
Goatse... Ouch that brings back memories.
I tried googling for the original picture, but it's nowhere to be found. Pity that such precious cultural artefacts are lost while poo sculptures are idolized.
The fact is that 99.99% of Internet users nowadays solely exist within sanitised content siloes, and that includes Google Search.