Subj : Old Geek Thoughts...
To   : GeekWisdom
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Dec 29 2021 09:19:19

  Re: Old Geek Thoughts...
  By: GeekWisdom to All on Wed Dec 29 2021 02:42 pm

 > A few intersting observations over the years:
 > 
 > In the 80/90's if you new how to "make" the computer 'do anything' you were
 > considered a computer 'genius'. With each passing year, this becomes
 > exponentially more difficult to impress someone.
 > 
 > The invention of the GUI and the MOUSE, saw a huge increase in computer usag
 > which later exploded with the invention of the web and the web browser.  It
 > also saw a large decrease in productivity, open a black box 'DOS PROMPT' and
 > people start to get scared you are messing with the 'internals'
 > 
 > There are so many areas a person can specialize in with computers. You can
 > literally go your whole life doing nothing but administring Oracle databases
 > without knowing anything about how to script in a batch language.
 > 
 > Usenet (Newsgroups) were once a fun (free) place to hop onto and read lots o
 > interesting thoughts from people all around the world. Today Usenet is mostl
 > a spot for downloading pirated content, and you have to pay to access it.
 > 
 > "Online" orginally meant logging onto a BBS, CompuServe/AOL Literally, you w
 > 
 > on "using the phone line" at least until your mom picked up the house phone 
 > 
 > @$%S23450s@@^ NO CARRIER filled up on your screen.
 > 
 > Chatting with someone Online was done over text only, later came IRC, and th
 > ICQ. Today there are hundreds of messaging apps, such as discord and telegra
 > basically the same 'old'  thing re-invented in a 'new' way
 > 
 > Channels were once a physical knob on a television that you switched, and th
 > very idea that video could be streamed over the network was laughable. It wo
 > 
 > take hours just to download an image! How could it be possible to send movin
 > video? Today my kids don't even watch tv shows. The majority of the time it'
 > YouTube videos, or maybe once in a while Netflix or Disney+
 > 
 > So yes -I'm an old G33k. And I think that many of the young folks out there
 > don't know half of the history of what made the world the way it is today...
 > and those that fail to learn from history...well you get the idea !
 > 
 > Are you an old geek like me????
 > 
 > What other things can you think of?
 > 
 > GeekWisdom
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > ... I'm not arguing - I'm simply explaining why I'm right
 > ___ MultiMail/Win v0.52

I am worse than you, because I didn't live the old days, yet here I am, using
BBS systems over telnet.

Something that has degraded so much are games. Game technology has improved byt
not so much the game experience. We are actually planning to host a podcast
about the subject at IRCNow :-)

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