As we begin the long road away from the forces of darkness towards the chaotic worlds of open source and the new frontier, we should pause and remember the past a little.
The joyous days of command line interfaces, our faces bathed in the pale green glow of monochromatic screens, struggling to remember the 1043 shortcuts required to just get your email in pine.
The slow roar of frustration as the system allowed you to alter it's own operating system causing our old friend the blue screen of death.
Having to code your own programs just for a little solitaire action in the afternoon.
The whispers of the techno savvy, talking slash dot and the baud rates of different modems.
Now, the penguin is ascending and open source is not a dirty word.
23 things, many new thing, many things we may not be able to do without later, some will go the way of the dodo and some we will fight to death to keep.
It's a new exciting time, however in the back of my head a little voice screams : BETAMAX! BETAMAX! BETAMAX!.
Groucho
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1 comment:
Superior format that lost the race due to marketing and just dumb consumers? ..Ah yes....but the video playing bit changed how we consume movies forever - regardless of which format let us do it.
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