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  • It's About Time

    From Mortar M.@21:2/101 to Dumas Walker on Wed Dec 31 22:45:08 2025
    Re: Screaming into the void
    By: Dumas Walker to MORTAR M. on Wed Dec 31 2025 10:11:42

    I am not sure there is a time in my life I would rather go back to.

    I am. July, 1977. I'm just out of HS and looking (unsuccessfully) for a Summer job. It's the dawn of the home computer era and to para-phrase Obi-Wan, I'd taken my first steps into that larger world thanks to discovering BYTE magazine at a news stand while pounding the pavement. That led to other magazines, and hanging out at computer shops that were starting to pop up in the area. It would be another year before I owned a computer; a T/S 1000. I would love to re-experience that wonder, that excitment of something totally new.

    Then there was the '80s. My favorite decade. I loved most everything about it: The cloths, the music, the movies/TV shows. They were like, totally bitchin'!
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Mortar M. on Thu Jan 1 09:39:26 2026
    Mortar M. wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

    shops that were starting to pop up in the area. It would be another
    year before I owned a computer; a T/S 1000. I would love to
    re-experience that wonder, that excitment of something totally new.

    One of the guys in the BBS documentary mentioned something about knowing something that only a few people knew about, I remember dropping a
    reference to computers in a conversation in the early 80s and seeing one person's eyes light up - you knew you had something in common with them.

    Same with the early internet in the mid '90s. I worked in Multimedia Gulch
    in San Francisco, a center of creative design and technology in the
    early 'net days. Travel a few blocks north to the financial district and
    they had no idea what you were doing.




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