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/techarchive from @yb is an underrated channel.

I never realized how expensive they were originally https://t.co/6vTYVaqMcr

laptops from a different era 

https://x.com/hartgoat/status/1902697801378640348?s=46&t=ZnRZ_0I2fxYylP8sKiFGHg

Computer dating has been around for as long as computer programmers could make money from offering it.

Computer dating has been around for as long as computer programmers could make money from offering it. https://aeon.co/videos/curious-singles-and-tech-sceptics-what-computer-dating-looked-like-in-1966

“…but I haven't heard a single "Hey, Siri" for years. Like with the scarcity of touchscreen laptops, I'm sure that means something.”

Try watching middle schoolers today.  They use Siri for everything.

“…but I haven't heard a single "Hey, Siri" for years. Like with the scarcity of touchscreen laptops, I'm sure that means something.”

Try watching middle schoolers today.  They use Siri for everything. https://www.datagubbe.se/futui/

It’s ok, we’re only human. https://youtu.be/M0zgj2p7Ww4

Pixar Typestry emerged during a period when Pixar was transitioning from hardware to software solutions, having sold its hardware division in 1990. Typestry was part of Pixar's efforts to diversify its product offerings & generate revenue through software tools. A few years later Pixar would ditch all this & go all in on feature films. The rest is history.

The number of sites written in Next.js and hosted on Vercel that have no backend functionality is silly to me. Static sites don’t need Next.js. 

“Today’s entrepreneurs would do well to note that Microsoft made minimal use of venture capital. Microsoft’s only VC only owned 6.2 percent of the company. Gates didn’t trust them.”

“Today’s entrepreneurs would do well to note that Microsoft made minimal use of venture capital. Microsoft’s only VC only owned 6.2 percent of the company. Gates didn’t trust them.”
https://dfarq.homeip.net/microsofts-1986-ipo/

Indy (1993) by SGI. featuring a blue Memphis-esque pizza-box design, it was made for multimedia use, including 6-channel digital audio processing, SCSI, S-Video with ISDN and Ethernet ports. the first computer to include a camera, called IndyCam

before google photos, we had picasa. and for its time, it was really really good.

Ampex Nagra VPR-5- "The world's smallest and lightest broadcast quality portable video recorder", circa 1984.

aichannel

Pretty incredible how instead of .txt or .csv or .rtf or .html, we collectively landed on “discretely positioned lines of text and vector graphics broken up into arbitrarily-sized rectangles encoded with a declarative subset of a proprietary scripting language” as our de facto format for sharing data.

Like, just imagine the collective human hours we could have saved on data entry in the post-printer–pre-LLM era if not for this impedance mismatch.

https://x.com/deedydas/status/1897726053759725670

ZX81 Basic Programming (1981), Sinclair 
featuring epic cover art, the manual covered installation, programming and runtime aspects of the ZX81 home computer. the ZX81 came with only four chips, eliminated the need for the processor to drive the TV display, thus causing the screen to go blank during processing