[HN Gopher] My summer at Bell Labs (2018)
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       My summer at Bell Labs (2018)
        
       Author : hasheddan
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2022-04-13 11:28 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | jleyank wrote:
       | It was amazing when computers were both new and social. Limitless
       | potential pursued through room-sided machines with the power of
       | today's toys. Bits and scraps like this blog capture the spirit.
        
         | spyremeown wrote:
         | Yea, it seemed all so new and joyful. People were still able to
         | grasp the full software complexity and really make the best out
         | of it. I miss this time I never got to live, weirdly enough.
        
           | linguae wrote:
           | Thankfully there are some retrocomputing and hobbyist groups
           | online that maintain this spirit of computing. I was born in
           | 1989 and was fortunate enough to be exposed to computers at
           | an early age, and so I was able to live through a time when
           | computers felt new and before "pop culture" (as Alan Kay
           | would put it) and other commercial concerns took over
           | computing.
           | 
           | Some areas where I spend a lot of my browsing time are Mac
           | and NeXT retrocomputing sites as well as keeping up to date
           | with the Smalltalk, Lisp, and Plan 9 communities.
        
           | jleyank wrote:
           | If you are too young to have been there, make sure Linux
           | always has some of the same vibes as Unix and earlier. It's
           | not just money, it's "being known" and more importantly
           | "being useful" that is the mark of a hacker.
        
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