Subj : Re: Old Geek Thoughts...
To   : TALIADON
From : Jeff
Date : Thu Jan 06 2022 11:55:20

On 06 Jan 2022, TALIADON said the following...
 TA>  Je> I'm not 100% sure what you're referring to here; is it perhaps someth
 TA>  Je> to do with owning a library of physical albums versus having a Spotif
 TA>  Je> subscription, for example?
 TA> Absolutely, and I think I've seen a considerable shift in cultural
 TA> values over the past four decades - some good, some not so perhaps.

Interestingly, this has also made its way into the retrocomputing community.
Back in the early 80s, anyone with a home computer probably also had either a
box of cassettes or a flip-top diskette holder. Partially due to the poor
aging of storage devices and media from that era, devices were created that
would store disk or tape images on some sort of modern flash-card-based
media. But now, due to the availability of cheap WiFi chips, more and more of
those old machines are making their way onto the internet. Thanks to projects
like the Fujinet, SpectraNet, and TIPI, it's no longer necessary to even have
local copies of disk or cassette images; users can mount and use them over the
internet. And that, I think, is amazing.

Jeff.

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