@kdfrawg It was one of those brief moments when you thought the world was finally on the right track and just might stay there. So amazing chatting with people who crossed. Such optimism and joy.
// @matigo @larand
@kdfrawg I have some transcripts of conversations I had on FIDONet when the Berlin wall was falling. That was such an exciting time.
// @matigo @larand
@kdfrawg I kind of miss text going by slowly enough that you could read a bit, go for coffee, then come back and read the rest long before it scrolled away.
@larand This is frighteningly close to a conversation I had with a customer who asked me how he could get a bunch of old writing from Professional Write. (DOS era word processor)
// @matigo @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg In science non-fiction, a distressing amount of our information is sitting on a precipice.
// @matigo
@kdfrawg Poor Wayne. I wonder what happened to him over the years. Think about him a lot.
// @matigo @phoneboy @skematica
@matigo You learn to hate your tools when you have to pop RAM out of a machine to work on the UI.
@matigo They are also not future-proof. You can pick up one of my books on Pascal or Assembly a century from now. Good luck reading a ePub from a century before.
// @kdfrawg