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 (DIR) Post #9fhFECLBnxQCRVlPV2 by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
       2019-02-10T15:51:29Z
       
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       Gen X, the generation that remembers when computers were things you only used sometimes.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fhFPBTZMPlMwhvDbk by clacke@libranet.de
       2019-02-10T15:53:40Z
       
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       @djsundog Even gen Y / millennials do. We/they were mostly born before the web.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fhFs2MgJYFJ5PSTkO by USBloveDog@cybre.space
       2019-02-10T15:59:03Z
       
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       @djsundog A #computer is a sometimes food (and sometimes is right now)
       
 (DIR) Post #9fhI17GbeqzCnv4dIu by eldergoth@sfbubble.net
       2019-02-10T16:15:45Z
       
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       @djsundog Witnessing the transformation from the PET, though Sinclair's and Commodore's breakthroughs, to what we have now, was quite a ride.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fhIFUFL18O880KhWq by msh@coales.co
       2019-02-10T16:25:36Z
       
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       @djsundog they were such mysterious and expensive boxes that parents nervously let us use to type in BASIC code and play educational games like Lemonade Stand to teach us capitalism and Oregon Trail to teach us how to uh...die from dysentery? Otherwise they were put to use by mum to write letters and balance the chequebook and dad to keep track of his stocks and amortize and whatever on his "calc".
       
 (DIR) Post #9fhJ7YFEMs0CAM3wjg by msh@coales.co
       2019-02-10T16:35:24Z
       
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       @djsundog maybe my perspectives on computers and tendencies toward self sufficiency come from having pre-boomer parents. Having been born into the great depression taught them to respect possessions of value and make things last. And maybe to be a bit stingy too lol.When we had our computer break and the shop wanted to sell us a new one instead of fix it dad and I set upon fixing it ourselves. If we couldn't fix it at least it was a learning experience!
       
 (DIR) Post #9fhtyTKkyvCZqMuWAq by chr@cybre.space
       2019-02-10T18:53:17Z
       
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       @djsundog computer...........sometimes?? :dragnthaenkin:
       
 (DIR) Post #9fhtyTblxeoSh8s6hE by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
       2019-02-10T18:55:06Z
       
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       @chr it was a whole thing. you could walk around and look at things and they wouldn't have a computer inside of them but you could still do stuff with them. it was a time of sorcery.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fhtyTrj0LZbUcKqYq by mdhughes@cybre.space
       2019-02-10T23:28:22Z
       
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       @djsundog @chr I was recently thinking about VHS, how it's a movie on magnetic media, but just analog signal, no thinking machine between you and the signal, nearly as pure a path as film & projector. But there is a clock chip in those.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fhuTv3pwWK6oZzXWq by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
       2019-02-10T23:33:51Z
       
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       @mdhughes @chr you could play an analog VHS into an analog UHF transmitter and then record the output of any number of corresponding analog VHS recorders connected to UHF receivers and have broadcast quality replica at each without any complex computers even being in the same rooms and I think that's beautiful.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fiMQ39ihZTbTkgdRg by erosdiscordia@radical.town
       2019-02-10T17:35:25Z
       
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       @clackeIt's less about the web and more like...imagine your teen years where you only started a computer up once a week or so to write a paper. Now imagine what you'd do with the rest of your time. I mean, I mostly got high on a beach, lol. But hey, screen-free@djsundog
       
 (DIR) Post #9fiMQ3TZVlM8TJyUO8 by clacke@libranet.de
       2019-02-11T04:45:52Z
       
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       @erosdiscordia Before the web there would be nothing to do with computers except occasionally or if you had a specific interest in computers, that's why I picked the web as a reference point.Even after the arrival of the web it took a decade or more before most people had a computer with a non-dialup connection.
       
 (DIR) Post #9fiMRVl3qQp2Tcqj8y by chr@cybre.space
       2019-02-10T18:57:03Z
       
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       @djsundog but......how to toast bread without computer??? where would the linux go??
       
 (DIR) Post #9fiMTWuGXtSScN7LLU by clacke@libranet.de
       2019-02-11T04:47:39Z
       
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       @djsundog > broadcast quality replicaYou're thinking of Betamax. 😉