The Old web was better I hear a persistent complaint levied by people who have been using computers since Dial-up was a thing. (psssst… kids… Dial-up was an old technology where you gave your computer a phone and it would scream at another computer over the phone in some weird machine language. If you picked up the phone, you could hear them talking.) You can see this argument on: Reddit ...
I had a thought the other day when I was watching the “Unreasonably Effectiveness Of Plain Text” video. In either this video or another, he talks about a SciFi/Fantasy novel that he is writing where futuristic future people are surfing old text files from the internet, because after a thousand years, every other filetype had mutated so much that their formatting was lost to time. This triggered a specific thought for me. ...
I’ve found the perfect tech video. Seriously, it changed my entire outlook on things. I’ve spent over 10 years spending most of my free time watching technical videos on various computing topics. That is an unfathomable amount of hours of content. In that time, there have been a number of videos that helped to shape my perspective on computers and how they can be used. One of them stands above the rest though, and it can be located here: ...