I can only imagine, I have often wished I could have seen the birth of the personal computer and the internet(even though I kind of did see that one) I remember being amazed at Timbuktu(remote access software from the 90s) Thinking my god this changes everything and it has. I cannot imagine what I will see before my time is up.
LOL One of my favorite threads on the entire 'net is when VMware first announced, and demoed, their virtual machines.
(Never mind that such had been an element in HPC/mainframes for ages.)
They decried it as impossible, a waste of time, declared they'd just reboot from Windows 95 and select booting to their Linux partition.
My first MODEM (MOdulate and DEModulate) was an acoustic coupler - a cradle modem. It was 300 baud, as I recall. It was a Hayes MODEM and was a few thousand dollars. My computer, with the stuff I had with it, was more expensive than my brand new car was.
I used the "Internet" before it was World Wide or open to the public. It was restricted to academia and government and sure as hell wasn't world-wide. In fact, there were a number of competing networks and they couldn't talk to each other. (Which is how we ended up with HTTP.)
At the same time, you could also dial into other computers - that weren't part of a larger network. There were things like BBSes that we could dial into. Then, there were service providers such as CompuServe but those were like $12/hour to dial into the 1200 baud MODEM pool. You could dial in at like 900 baud and it was only like $4/hour. It was something insane like that.
It has been awesome to witness. I'm sometimes afraid it was a horrible mistake - but that's okay. We're humans. We're harder to extinct than cockroaches. We'll be fine, from a biological viewpoint. Granted, there's some risk that we'll cause our own extinction but we'll probably be okay. Meh... In the end, the universe doesn't actually care.
I can't imagine the feeling of using something like that for the first time it had to be mind blowing.
On that last part I think as you know I would have to disagree I think the universe does care about us. We are hard to extinct but not impossible. My guess is either we will be so different from humans today we won't be human or we blow our selves up by 2045-2050
Yeah, we're still evolving. We're still going to evolve. We're life, that's what we do. It's hubris to think we're the final form or the best adapted. Hell, bacteria are probably the best adapted.
By the way, if you could look at this (when you get time) then we'd be obliged:
https://poal.co/s/Nature/2093/13d20e0d-3d1f-41fa-840d-9b50c6779454
I hit my 15 sub threshold and, frankly, I didn't even want 15 of them. There's still a bunch of generic subs that should probably exist. I'm not sure how you go about fixing that, but I wanted to ensure your attention was drawn to that. It's a definite usability issue - and, again, my goal is to give starting content and to hope that other folks continue.
I'm rapidly approaching the point where I've even less free time. I've not even been active on Voat all that much. So, I can only do so much to help you get started. I will have even less time as the weather warms.
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