Subj : Old Geek Thoughts...
To   : All
From : GeekWisdom
Date : Thu Dec 30 2021 08:25:57

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 usage, 
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 of 
interesting thoughts from people all around the world. Today Usenet is mostly 
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 were

on "using the phone line" at least until your mom picked up the house phone and

@$%S23450s@@^ NO CARRIER filled up on your screen. 

Chatting with someone Online was done over text only, later came IRC, and then 
ICQ. Today there are hundreds of messaging apps, such as discord and telegram, 
basically the same 'old'  thing re-invented in a 'new' way

Channels were once a physical knob on a television that you switched, and the 
very idea that video could be streamed over the network was laughable. It would

take hours just to download an image! How could it be possible to send moving 
video? Today my kids don't even watch tv shows. The majority of the time it's 
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





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