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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade 8d ago #7696662

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I have lived a half century on this Earth. My earliest memories of technology were of B&W TVs, radio receivers the size of cedar chests, mechanical typewriters & computers that filled a room & required their own A/C units.

The device I hold now could run an entire multinational corporation in 1975.

Jeff Eaton (@eaton.fyi):

Late Gen-Xers/early Millennials were the weird cohort that experienced the emergence of modern digital culture but witnessed the world before it.

It was a 15 year transition from "a modem is a thing hacker matthew broderick uses to start a nuclear war" to the launch of Napster and Livejournal.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

In 1st grade I was expected to know cursive longhand. Again, in 3rd grade, in 1983.

I remember the first time I used the Internet, thru a FIDOnet relay, to send an electronic mail from a dial-up BBS to someone. It used bang paths.

My freshman month in Uni was September 1993.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

One of my CS professors firmly believed that the future of computing science was in humans writing algorithms as daemons in machine code, for the 8086 platform