I see that and think, “oh, crap, did I take my cholesterol pill this morning?”
When I die maybe they will also stuff me and put me in a museum
Submitted 3 days ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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homes@piefed.world 3 days ago
Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world 3 days ago
bruh… thanks for reminding me! 👊
UsefulInfoPlz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And your fiber supplement
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you’re ever in San Francisco, the Computer History Museum is fantastic.
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That was one of the options for my gf and mine’s vacation this summer, but we ultimately decided to do NYC instead. I do miss being in Cali.
Alberat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
their peoples used storage devices they called “floppies” yet they were rigid squares. no one is certain of the origin of this term and the leading theory is that the squares simply calcified over time.
grozzle@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
i remember when i was a child being certain that american cars had a totally different type of engine than our car, because i knew from tv they all ran on gas, while ours used liquid fuel.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 2 days ago
funny. That’s exactly how archeology works. They try to fit the logic and customs of today into what people actually did in the past
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 days ago
The oldest computer I’ve ever messed with personally is either an Apple IIe or a Pong console; depends on whether or not you consider the OG Pong to be a computer.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 3 days ago
I went to the henry ford museum like a year and a half ago, they had Pokémon red and blue on display and I felt that in my soul and bones.
moshankey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It was in high school actually. I’m soooooo old
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I watched an entire civilization die of dysentery in green monochrome… time to die!
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 days ago
Technical Museum Brno has some 2000s stuff on display… Portable CD player, compact digital camera and a desktop inkjet printer, the same model that’s been our family’s primary one until 2019 and we still use sometimes. Of course, it’s just a minor part at the end of the consumer electronics section.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 3 days ago
My first computer ran CP/M and had 8 inch floppy drives.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My dad had a DEC something or other that was basically a cube with most of its space being two 8" floppy drives… No clue if it ran cp/m…
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Did the drives make a loud “ca-CHUNK” noise when you closed the latch on them? That part really stands out in my mind.
heliotrope@retrofed.com 3 days ago
Man, I may have grown up with 64-bit PCs and Arduinos, but the ol’ Apple II is still surprisingly usable (though obviously don’t expect it to be able to run Crysis).
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Somebody has to have ported Crysis to the NES, right? That uses the same MOS6502 CPU (but has some beefier graphics hardware)
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s the problem though, with old systems like that, the CPU was like 1/10th of the equation, the hardware was far more important. Porting something often involved a full rewrite.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Counterpoint: my school had old and outdated shit… So it’s not like that was the state of contemporary computing by the time it landed in our district/classrooms
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Being in a museum doesn’t make it ancient. Moma had the iPod and iMac on display when those things were like 5-10 years old.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My local science museum had a laptop from the '90s on display, with the caption “computing in the 1900s”. My kids asked if that was what I had in school when I was their age, and I had to break the news to them that I was already done with school when those were current…
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This trend of saying 1900s for the end of that century seems intentionally aging to me. That was 26 years ago. I feel like even at 50 years it is a little odd to start using that term. I feel like it implies it was at least close to 100 years ago
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I can feel the sensation of that disk resisting, then getting sucked into the drive just from looking at this picture.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Cool but why did they include those 3D printed save icons?
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Look closer. Those are 5.25" floppies, which never had the popularity as save icons that 3.5" floppies did.
dalekcaan@feddit.nl 3 days ago
To be fair, even though 5¼" floppies are arguably more deserving of the name, I feel like most people still think of the 3½" disks when they hear “floppy disk.”
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m not about to let a little thing like perfect factual accuracy get in the way of a dumb joke.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Heh. I’ve had this thought many times, that we used the floppy as a save icon for longer than we even used the damn floppy, and for almost that whole time, there were tons of people coming online who’d never used floppies and would get no help whatsoever from that icon.
Recently I notice that the bookmark has become the metaphor for “save.” Literally an icon showing the end of a bookmark hanging forward. But is this actually an improvement? Does anyone fucking read books anymore??