Missing option: none (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-23 13:08 (#286) Because honestly, either those options are still readily available or I'm glad to see their backside. I mean, MacOS Classic? Sure, I can't stand the OS X dock, but do you remember how often it crashed, INITs, the awful multitasking? Or 8-bit/16-bit computing? Okay, there were some nice apps, but would I really want to go back to an era when memory was counted in kilobytes (or even single bytes)? And dial-up networking shouldn't even get the slightest of considerations. I've embraced the changes of the ever-improving technology world because they have been, for the most part, actually improvements. I got more computing power in my cellphone (which do everything a PDA did, and more) these days than a Cray had when I was growing up. If I really want to re-live the glory days of past computing, there are always emulators to remind me of how far we've come, and how limited those old machines really were.Nostalgia for old tech? I don't think so. Re: Missing option: none (Score: 3, Insightful) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-23 14:21 (#287) I suppose it's fair to say there are different types of nostalgia: there's a variant where you yearn for old days you truly believe were better somehow, and another where you simply have fond memories of a period that's now past.I have a strange fascination with dial-up, but if you offered to take away my broadband and hook me up with a modem, I'd refuse. But I do have fond memories of that dial-up sound, and the amazement of being on line from a personal computer. Was just thinking of buying this poster, actually: http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html Re: Missing option: none (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-04 18:34 (#2BD) Very cool, thank you!
Re: Missing option: none (Score: 3, Insightful) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-06-23 14:21 (#287) I suppose it's fair to say there are different types of nostalgia: there's a variant where you yearn for old days you truly believe were better somehow, and another where you simply have fond memories of a period that's now past.I have a strange fascination with dial-up, but if you offered to take away my broadband and hook me up with a modem, I'd refuse. But I do have fond memories of that dial-up sound, and the amazement of being on line from a personal computer. Was just thinking of buying this poster, actually: http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html Re: Missing option: none (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-04 18:34 (#2BD) Very cool, thank you!
Re: Missing option: none (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-04 18:34 (#2BD) Very cool, thank you!