Heh, all I know is when I got my first Personal Computer (a TI-99/4a) I was only 6 or 7 years old, and thought it was something like our Atari 2600.
See, I wasn't deprived of having computing power at home, but I can totally understand how people lusted after these things in the 70s and 80s. Ever seen how dedicated people get to their HP calculators? I guess my point is, even though I wasn't deprived of that stuff as a kid I really do sometimes stop and think that I'm pretty lucky to be able to have all this technology at my fingertips. I never would have thought in my younger days that I could even really afford the speed of ethernet I have at home, much less run a distributed OS like I can. The things I think are somewhat shameful is how people are tying to treat the internet like a big truck when we all know it's a series of tubes. Dave On 7/28/06, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
not to mention newspapers, magazines &c. there are advantages to the net today that have nothing to do with the fact that they are new. - erik On Fri Jul 28 04:48:45 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:29:04PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > i don't think the evolution of the net (or computers for that matter) > > is a story of the good old days and constant regression or the > > converse. i think it's a story of (slightly? how pessamistic are > > you?) more advances than regressions. > > Depends also on how much you value the new things, I guess. It was > probably the masses that drew all kinds of companies along and now you > can contact many places, research products, get manuals and support etc. > Well.. sometimes you might.
